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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are even bigger gaps when it comes to belief in God. About a quarter of Jews (26%) say they believe in God as described in the Bible, compared with more than half of U.S. adults overall (56%) and eight-in-ten Christians. Jews are more likely than U.S. adults overall (50% vs. 33%) to say they believe in some other spiritual force or higher power, but not in God as described in the Bible. Jewish adults also are twice as likely as the general public to say they do not believe in any kind of higher power or spiritual force in the universe (22% vs. 10%).

Orthodox Jews – who make up 9% of all U.S. Jews – are a notable exception. They are among the most highly religious groups in U.S. society by these measures. For example, 86% of Orthodox Jews say religion is very important in their lives, as do 78% of Black Protestants and 76% of White evangelical Protestants, two of the most highly religious Christian subgroups. Orthodox Jews (93%) also are about as likely as White evangelicals (94%) and Black Protestants (88%) to say they believe in God as described in the Bible.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/05/13/jews-in-u-s-are-far-less-religious-than-christians-and-americans-overall-at-least-by-traditional-measures/

So Jewish people are less religious, overall. That’s reality, but apparently the Jewish people who believe in Jesus are the only Jewish people that are not accepted by Jewish people and are actively disliked, and considered to be destroying Judaism and “giving the finger” to all Jews present and past.”

It has been explained that Jewish people can be completely atheist and they are fine, and only Orthodox Jewish people are consistently “religious” according to Pew. That’s ok, but once a person believes Jesus is the Son of God, they are disowned and set apart from the Jewish people. 
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Correct, a Jew who professes to believe in Jesus is an apostate and no longer a Jew according to … pretty much every single Jew in existence. Jews of course are diverse in their beliefs on other criteria, but this is the one thing they can all agree on: Jesus is not the Messiah. [/quote]

But a Jew who doesn’t believe in God is not an apostate?

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