"To be a Jew...

[YankeyMCC]

I really liked this quote from the interview:

"To be a Jew is to say 'Why are you right? You're going to have to explain it to me. And! I'm going to argue with you." David Hartman

http://being.publicradio.org/programs/2011/opening-up-windows/

[Meshuga]

1. In Judaism, questioning is not only encouraged

But it is at the core of Jewish tradition.

[edhopper]

3. That's very true.

I kept on questioning until I became an atheist.

[Meshuga]

4. I remember discussing with a rabbi...

...from my former Conservative synagogue about the fact that if someone presented me with the idea of a god that we usually think of in our Christian majority society I would consider myself an atheist. He answered by saying he would consider himself agnostic since he wasn't sure whether he believed in a personal god or not.

[starroute]

5. My father used to say that agnosticism was the fourth branch of Judaism

By which I believe he meant that Jewish agnostics were different from ordinary garden variety agnostics -- that they were agnostic in a peculiarly Jewish fashion.

[LeftishBrit]

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