• klemptor@startrek.website
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    20 hours ago

    Yeah my dad is a Jewish atheist (or agnostic, depending on how much he feels like placating my catholic mom lol)

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      19 hours ago

      I am also a Jewish atheist married to a formerly Christian (although not since she was a child) atheist.

      And for those who say that you cannot be an atheist and a Jew, the following people are/were atheists:

      Larry David
      Sarah Silverman
      Both Carl and Rob Reiner
      Gene Wilder
      Jerry Lewis
      Randy Newman

      Even (although I hate to bring him up) Woody Allen is an atheist. Good luck convincing people either Larry David or Woody Allen aren’t Jewish.

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        I am also a Jewish atheist married to a formerly Christian (although not since she was a child) atheist.

        Haha me too!!

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        7 hours ago

        In practice, would that be like being atheist but still celebrating Hannukah or Christmas?

        Or is it just Jewish heritage from a lineage perspective regardless of one’s perspective/practice on religion/god?

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          The Jewish religion is entirely separate from the Jewish ethnicity.

          There may be a good amount of overlap but one can be ethnically Jewish and not religiously Jewish (Woody Allen), and likewise one can be religiously Jewish but not ethnically Jewish (Ivanka Trump).

          Sincerely, a Jewish atheist who celebrates Christmas.

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        Good luck convincing people either Larry David or Woody Allen aren’t Jewish.

        Just wait for some talking head asshat to coin the term “JINO”.

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          16 hours ago

          there are episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm where LD has other Jews yell at him for being a terrible Jew. that man is a maniac genius

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      19 hours ago

      how much he feels like placating my catholic mom lol

      Please tell me she has, at least once, made a reference to “your people killing my savior”

      I know an ethnically jewish/religious catholic couple that do this every time they get into an argument and realize it’s stupid to argue about, one of them will go “WELL YOU KILLED MY GOD!” and that’s basically the end of the argument because they’re too busy giggling.

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        19 hours ago

        I wish! My mom is DEVOUT. She has no sense of humor about it. If any of us tried to joke about it she’d send us right to purgatory (aka the catholic pattern buffer).