Core tenet of Reconstructionist Judaism
The past gets a vote, not a veto.
Tradition is honored as the record of the people's search — and overruled when conscience requires.
Understanding it — context, not catechism: how this passage is held
"The past has a vote, not a veto" is Kaplan's most quoted line and the movement's working method: tradition is consulted seriously and is not binding, and communities decide together how to reconstruct a practice for the present. In practice this makes Reconstructionist congregations unusually participatory in liturgical decision-making, and it produced some of the earliest American innovations in Jewish practice, including the first bat mitzvah.
The same ground, other faiths
claims that share this one's ideas
We do not curse our teachers.
The Assyrian Church of the East · precept
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There is nothing to join.
The Christian Churches and Churches of Christ
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Honest to God — thirty-nine pages that took the movement apart.
The International Churches of Christ · story
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Nothing supernatural is claimed, by anyone, at any point.
The Satanic Temple
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Satsang — the singing evening.
Hinduism · rite
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The fourfold sangha.
Buddhism · community
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