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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My Dad says that many Jews do not believe in God.  Is that true?  If it is, why would anyone who does not believe in God call themselves [b]Jewish (or any other religion)[/b].

Ps. I myself am atheist / agnostic. [/quote]

Jewish was a people before it was a "religion"

"you shall be my people, and I shall be your G-d"  Implies that first the Jews were a people, then they accepted, as a people G-d's covenant. They accepted the covenant on behalf of themselves and their descendants so anyone who is of Jewish descent is bound by it, whether they believe G-d exists or not.

That is the religious Jewish answer.

The non religious answers is that the Jews are a people like any other - and you can be any religion or nonreligion and be Jewish.  The real question for those is why are atheists more likely to be accepted as Jews, than Jews who covert to Christianity or Islam. The answer, I think is that Jews who because atheists historically contained to live with the Jewish community, behind legally mandated ghetto walls.   Converts to Christianity were, by law, not allowed to live in the Jewish ghetto or have contact with Jews, so conversion represented a turning of ones back on the community in a more profound way. [/quote]

Do jews really believe that God somehow just chose them as a people despite whether they believed in him or not? God in the bible seems to chose people who agreed to believe in him and do as he asked and as a result God gave them help to lead. He wiped out entire jewish cities because those people didn't believe in him. Only a few jews were allowed to enter the promised land. It doesn't sound like he just accepted them as chosen people outright.

Just curious. Why were Christians not allowed by jews to have contact with other jews?[/quote]

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