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Most Jews are ATHEISTS.
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Well, it's a welcome relief from T&T's mindless ramblings (#1 on this site), but it's still...oh, what's the word? RETARDED.
Fun word game! Pick the sentence which makes the least sense!
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*Most tins of soup are LAWNMOWERS.
*Most Jews are ATHEISTS.
*Most ankle bracelets are UNION JACKS.
*Most publishers are CARGO ELEVATORS.
*Most Echidnas are DERMATOLOGISTS.
*Most Native Americans are WATERCRESS.
*Most pacemakers are ASTEROIDS.
*Most tangerines are WALKING STICKS.
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Septic Sceptic
You forgot to call then "communists," "fascists," and "terrorists" too. You're slippin'!
(Yes, communists and fascists at the same time. I don't care that that's a contradiction. That's just how insidious they are!!)
Wikipedia:
The shortest Jewish prayer, the Shema:
"Shema Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Ehad"
translates to "Listen, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One."
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Damn, I'm trying to figure out which of those words is supposed to be the most insulting.
Right now I'm going for 'are'.
actually, all of the Jews I know *are* atheists, even the ones that go to synagogue....
I am ethnically Jewish and an atheist, I think. My grandfathers were Jewish, but I think it can only pass through the mother or something.
Fucking Stormfront.
Always so full of fail.
A) What is wrong with atheists? Or Jews? Or Jews being atheist?
B) My best friend and his family are Jewish. Yet they believe very much in God. So did other friends of mine who were Jewish. In fact I've never met a Jewish atheist before.
Exept for that whole part where they worship a Yhwh, who, by accounts of the Bible is the father of Christ, Jews are indeed Atheists.
There is an old joke.
What do you call an Jew who doesn't believe in god?
A Jew.
Not a very good joke but I hope it illustrates that Jew can denote race or religion. I understand that there are whole organisations of traditional Jews who have abandoned belief in god yet still uphold tradition.
Wow look at that, Christian Nazis. Who'd have thought.
@Beastly:
1) "Jew" can refer to a heritage as much as a religion. So it is true that some people who identify as being Jewish are also non-religious, hence a "secular Jew". While some Jews are atheist, it is doubtful that it is "most".
2) Whether or not any Jew (or anyone, really) is religious is quite irrelevant to anyone outside of that individual. So even if the original statement was true, who cares?
3) The joke by Gjervan on the previous page really hits the nail on the head: belief in God is preferred, but not required, by Judaism. Belief is secondary to action.
Well there's being Jewish in terms of your faith and beliefs; and there's being Jewish in terms of your ethnicity. The two aren't always in lockstep. My wife is ethnically Jewish, and she finds a lot to relate to in terms of the culture, she takes pride in her heritage. She's agnostic, she doesn't quite know exactly what she believes vis a vis the presence of a higher power; but she does respect and admire a lot of the traditions within Judaism, particularly the promotion of the values of charity and putting your family above everything else. Statistically-speaking Jews are more likely to be highly educated than many other ethnic or racial groups. And educated people are more likely to abandon the need for a higher power. So while it's possible, and perhaps even likely to be ethnically Jewish and philosophically atheist Ibere is still an asshat.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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