• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    For those that don’t know, being Jewish is the only ethnicity in the world that also refers to religion and (though no longer used due to antisemitic usage) national identities. Secular Jews are quite common

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      I also have a few friends who are practicing Jews (I don’t know if that’s the right phrase), and also atheists. Judaism appears to be more focussed on orthopraxy (doing things correctly) than belief, which was confusing to me at first, as someone who grew up steeped in Christianity

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      Yeah my dad is a Jewish atheist (or agnostic, depending on how much he feels like placating my catholic mom lol)

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        I am also a Jewish atheist married to a formerly Christian (although not since she was a child) atheist.

        And for those who say that you cannot be an atheist and a Jew, the following people are/were atheists:

        Larry David
        Sarah Silverman
        Both Carl and Rob Reiner
        Gene Wilder
        Jerry Lewis
        Randy Newman

        Even (although I hate to bring him up) Woody Allen is an atheist. Good luck convincing people either Larry David or Woody Allen aren’t Jewish.

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        how much he feels like placating my catholic mom lol

        Please tell me she has, at least once, made a reference to “your people killing my savior”

        I know an ethnically jewish/religious catholic couple that do this every time they get into an argument and realize it’s stupid to argue about, one of them will go “WELL YOU KILLED MY GOD!” and that’s basically the end of the argument because they’re too busy giggling.

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          I wish! My mom is DEVOUT. She has no sense of humor about it. If any of us tried to joke about it she’d send us right to purgatory (aka the catholic pattern buffer).