At 4:58 AM -0500 3/20/08, Allen Esterson wrote:
Re: [tips] Who's Jews in the USA?
On 19 March 2008 Stephen Black asked us to guessSurely it all
depends on how the question is worded. If the survey asks
what is the respondent's religion, then someone of Jewish descent who is an
atheist has only one answer: Atheist.
Wish it were that simple.
Someone of Jewish descent may feel that if they follow the mitzvot
(commandments) that they are observing the core of the Jewish
religion even if they do not literally believe in HaShem (G_d).
Sometimes it seems to me the Reconstructionist Jews fit this model.
Logic and religion don't always play well together (unless you're a Jesuit ;-).
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