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Jewish people who call everyone and their dogs & #39;culturally Christian& #39; and then get offended at the suggestion that perhaps professing a disbelief in the god central to Jewish Scripture makes them & #39;culturally Jewish& #39; sure express one /hell/ of a cognitive disconnect. https://twitter.com/anisky/status/1391223013866102789">https://twitter.com/anisky/st...
This is not to say I believe such assertions aren& #39;t genuine; ironically, however, they& #39;re rooted in a & #39;culturally-Christian& #39; conception of what God /is/, or in what it means to be an atheist.
@rabbiandruekahn had an excellent thread on this in January. ☟ https://twitter.com/rabbiandruekahn/status/1351170473829269509">https://twitter.com/rabbiandr...
@rabbiandruekahn had an excellent thread on this in January. ☟ https://twitter.com/rabbiandruekahn/status/1351170473829269509">https://twitter.com/rabbiandr...
They write: & #39;To be a Jewish atheist, there would be a denial of all mystery in the world.& #39; I don& #39;t know that one can be religiously Jewish and still assert that.
More importantly, however, I don& #39;t truly believe that& #39;s what any self-professed & #39;atheist Jew& #39; is actually doing.
More importantly, however, I don& #39;t truly believe that& #39;s what any self-professed & #39;atheist Jew& #39; is actually doing.
Rather, it seems to me they& #39;re using & #39;atheism& #39; as a shorthand for their disbelief in a personal, Christian conception of God.
I won& #39;t mince words: this is a dumb shorthand.
I won& #39;t mince words: this is a dumb shorthand.
Obviously, it& #39;s dumb because it& #39;s semantically erroneous; there are many conceptions of Divinity which would be & #39;atheist& #39; by such a definition.
Hindus are atheists by that definition.
It& #39;s a bad definition.
Hindus are atheists by that definition.
It& #39;s a bad definition.
But frankly, it& #39;s doubly ignorant to use such a culturally-Christian conception of & #39;atheism& #39; to define one& #39;s relationship to Judaism because—surprise!—Judaism isn& #39;t Christian!
Why define your Judaism and your Jewish relationship to God using Christian theology?
Why define your Judaism and your Jewish relationship to God using Christian theology?
