Pence wont eat with a women who isnt his wife?

[Warren DeMontague]

65. There's two different questions, to my mind, if I think more about it.

one is whether people can reconcile these sorts of.. for lack of a better word, prohibitions with their larger lives even in the modern world, and clearly, yes, many people do. You're right, I know people like that as well. (But it certainly seems like a giant pain in the ass.)

but the other poster also brought up trust, which isn't actually the issue, as near as I can tell, with at least the people I know who are Orthodox to the extent you describe- rather it is more about conforming one's life to a rather strict set of rules.

Yes, personally, I think those rules are silly, not to mention antiquated, I stand by that, "deeply held religious belief" or no; but then I'm an Atheist and I tend to think the entire concept of a magical invisible man in the sky-- who with 14 billion or more light-years worth of Universe to manage, seems unduly preoccupied with what the hairless domesticated primates on Planet Earth are doing with their genitalia--- is silly.

But beyond that, it seems to me the lack of trust implied in "I don't want you eating alone with a member of the opposite sex because I think you will sleep with them" or whatever, would be the real problem.