Could someone please clarify this statement for me?
I was reading an article about Daniel Radcliffe who has said, "I'm an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation", and he is "very proud of being Jewish".
How can someone be Jewish and an atheist? If that is at all possible can someone then be Catholic and an atheist or Muslim and atheist, etc?
2012-05-10T05:27:25Z
I have heard before the being Jewish is a race but it would be so much less confusing to the rest of the world if they would add something ... like "and although he is Non-practicing, he is very proud of his Jewish heritage."
Sometimes people just make me think too much..... my head hurts!
Indecisive Panda2012-05-10T04:55:00Z
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Jewish people are a race, Judaism is a religion. You can be a non-Jewish Jew, or a Jewish non-Jew.
** The person who says race is an artificial construct obviously drank the koolaid from his egalitarian politically correct humanities professor. Race is not a social construct, but a scientifically identifiable characteristic.
Have you ever heard the term "non practising" before? I'd long suspected it was code for atheist.
So, he was raised a Jew, is culturally a Jew, but does not believe in God....You are telling me that each & every butt in each and every seat in all religions are attached to brains & hearts that believe? C'mon, some peeps are only there because of spousal or parental pressure & you know it.
Yep, I'm a Protestant and an atheist, I am proud of my background and heritage, but I don't believe the earth was created 6000 years ago by some dude in the sky.
On being an atheist Catholic, being raised in Catholic church alters your entire mindframe and thinking, just as being raised British makes you think differently from being raised American. If you then leave the church and reject your faith, you will retain the Catholic way of thinking (somewhat) but not believe in God. In this sense, sure, you could be an atheist Catholic