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To: Zionist Conspirator

Being a Jew constitutes a religion, therefore, you love God, even if you are a jew that is a communist atheist. Jews here will tell you that.


6 posted on 11/04/2004 2:53:18 PM PST by cynicom (<p)
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To: cynicom

Are Jews Normal?
by Rabbi Manis Friedman

If you ask someone coming out of a church “Do you believe in G-d?” the worshiper is shocked. “What type of question is that? Of course I do, that’s why I’m here.”

But when you walk into a synagogue on Yom Kippur and ask a Jew, “Do you believe in G-d?” the Jew is quiet. “I don’t know, I’m not a rabbi.” “Do you consider yourself religious?” They break into laughter and assure you that they’re the furthest thing from religious. “Are you kidding? Do you know what I eat for breakfast?”

So you ask the logical question. “What are you doing in a synagogue?” But the Jew is shocked. “What type of question is that? It's Yom Kippur!"

To be sure, the worshiper and the Jew are shocked for very different reasons. The worshiper is shocked that you question his belief. The Jew is shocked that you question his Jewishness. Judaism is not a religion that we practice, nor a belief that we prescribe to - it's who we are and what we are.

While the Jew may insist “I don't want to be religious, I don't want to believe in G-d,” on Yom Kippur he’s in a synagogue. Why? G-d wants me here, so here I am.

But isn’t this hypocrisy? On the contrary, Torah views this very irrationality as the essence of the Jew. It is this insanity that makes us Jewish.

Subjective opinions to an objective truth; I am a Jew even if I’m not religious, and G-d is G-d even when I don’t believe.


8 posted on 11/04/2004 2:56:40 PM PST by hlmencken3 (Think good and it will be good!)
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To: cynicom

I think we can safely assume that Jewish neocons don't bring in votes. If we threw over abortion rights and gay marriages we might have a chance.


9 posted on 11/04/2004 3:01:15 PM PST by xJones
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