Modern Orthoprax: Fight or Flight?

Littlefoxling writes:

I would also ask, as skeptics, do we really want to be fighting this battle?

Yes, OJ is this bizarre system which seeks to spread its beliefs, not by arguments or convincing people, but by brainwashing, social pressure, familial pressure, guilt, etc. So, what's our response? Do we play the same game as them? And get in to fights with them about whether they should be killing us, disowning us, taking us out of their wills (true story - I know a frum person that actually did this to an OTD child), and giving us kibbudim?

Or, do we simply say, "the hell with you people!" We don't really care about your kibbudim and they were stupid to begin with. We are going to live our life and if you don't like it, it's the 21st century and there is nothing you can do about it, other than dolling out meaningless honors in the pathetic little bubble you people have created.

Strong words indeed, though hardly fighting words. So why do I advocate 'fighting' ? It used to be because I felt I wanted to belong, and I didn't want to be labeled as an apikores. But now I have an entirely different motivation. Judaism has a lot of value, a world without Judaism would be poorer. 

Judaism is too precious to be destroyed. And it's too precious to be left to the fundamentalists. 

We must reclaim Judaism from the liars and fakers, and show that you can have a traditional, observant and passionate Judaism without having to distort reality, or be the historical equivalent of a Holocaust denier. I will fight for Orthopraxy to be 100% legitimate because Orthodoxy needs it, not because Orthopraxy needs it.

We shall fight them on gelillah. We shall fight them on hagbaah. We shall fight them on pesichah. We shall never surrender!