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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you believe in God? If so, why?[/quote]

I'm undecided. I did. Many things have happened in my life that have left me with a lot of questions. [/quote]

Just curious why you still think you're "Special" even though you don't believe in the God that made you a unique set of people to begin with. Jewish used to mean people who believed in one god and held similar religious practices. Not people from a certain area. Do you even consider yourself Jewish if you don't believe in god? I don't consider anyone to be Jewish who doesn't believe in their god. [b]I just consider them racist.[/b] Doesn't that make you agnositic or an atheist insead?[/quote]

There is much more Jewish culture than religion  - there are languages (Hebrew, Yiddish, Ladino) foodways, art and literature, etc.  Would you call someone who considers themselves Italian racist if they are not Catholic?   While in the US in recent generations secular Jewish identify has not fared all that well, it was not always that way.

by the way what era are you referring to when you say that Jewish used to mean people who beleived?  Jewish law and tradition have always recognized that there are non believing, non practicing Jews. Those Jews are sinners, but they are still Jews.   That is the view throughout the bible, and was continued for 3000 years. The notion that being Jewish is a "religion"  really developed in the 19th century, but was never universally held (and was strongly rejected by thinkers like Achad Ha-Am)  Indeed, arguably "religion" is a western, christian concept, representing a division of human life that is foreign to Jewish tradition (as it is foreign, I believe, to muslim and hindu traditions) [/quote]

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