re: #226 marjoriemoon

Not that you’re speaking to me, but Jews coming out of Europe were strongly into the socialist model. How and why the Kibbutz’ were formed and they actually worked for a long period of time until the world started growing up around them. The children didn’t want a part of it anymore. Many Jews also lost the spirituality (God) out of their religion. My grandpa, a survivor, always said he couldn’t believe in a God who made a man like Hitler, but yet he always said the prayers at ever family service/event, read all the Jewish papers, talked politics incessantly. It was political/lifestyle thing. So there was as dichtomy there, but he really was an agnostic.

I don’t know if davesax meant the same thing.

Most Jews that I know are actually the same way. The really true religious component of the Jewish population is fairly small overall. Most Jews I know are very atheist in terms of what they think is out there, but culturally Jewish. It’s just part of their natural identity. Or at the very most, they tend to be very agnostic in their actual beliefs about there being a God.