"I do not know a single atheist....". Literally. On this thread. There are people who are athiests who can not believe that belief in God is not essential to being a Jew - and are telling us that we are wrong about that.
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I believe Jonathan Miller even made jokes about it. It’s an old, old problem.
aug 27, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s a simple and common misunderstanding - the elision of Jewish, the ethnicity, with Jewish, the religion. I learned that in school half a century ago. It’s nothing to do with Christianity, it’s a simple category error complicated by the two things having the same name.
aug 27, 2025, 10:27 pm • 0 0 • view
You are just wrong. Arrogantly and ignorantly wrong your “common misunderstanding” IS PRECISELY THE POINT. What you learned 50 years ago is a Christian understanding of Judaism, not a Jewish one
aug 27, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Ways you managed to be wrong: 1. Assuming a Christian taught me about Judaism / Jewishness, rather than a reform rabbi. 2. Assuming I was not an atheist from birth.
aug 27, 2025, 10:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Or you are wrong. But that could never happen, right?
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