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It is true that most Jews are agnostic of atheists?
I guess that has to do with the fact that they are extremely intelligent
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- 8 years agoFavorite Answer
кιиg αмσиg тнє вℓιи∂ - I've heard many atheists/agnostics call themselves jewish. It's the idea of once a jew always a jew. It's a tribal thing.
"A Jew is any person whose mother was a Jew or any person who has gone through the formal process of conversion to Judaism.
It is important to note that being a Jew has nothing to do with what you believe or what you do. A person born to non-Jewish parents who has not undergone the formal process of conversion but who believes everything that Orthodox Jews believe and observes every law and custom of Judaism is still a non-Jew, even in the eyes of the most liberal movements of Judaism, and a person born to a Jewish mother who is an atheist and never practices the Jewish religion is still a Jew, even in the eyes of the ultra-Orthodox. In this sense, Judaism is more like a nationality than like other religions, and being Jewish is like a citizenship."
- I agree with you and it makes little sense to me, but this is just how they identify themselves. I thought this was common knowledge.
Source(s): http://www.jewfaq.org/whoisjew.htm - ---Lv 78 years ago
If they were Atheists and Agnostics, they wouldn't be Jews. You're stupid.
If they are Atheists and/or Agnostic then they can't really identify themselves as anything else. it wouldn't make sense. And Judaism is a religion not a tribe. It still wouldn't make any sense. Whoever you heard tell you that need to make up their minds.
- 8 years ago
U therefore must not be a Jew, bcuz u stupidly asked this question in the Ramadan section, lol
- darthvoiceLv 78 years ago
Spamming questions is against the guidelines, also, Ramadan is not a Jewish holiday.