Question for non-religious Jews?

Question

If you have come to the conclusion that the BIble and Talmud are myths, why continue to label yourself with a title based on myths you don't even believe.

Answer 1

It is my experience (speaking of america only) that probably less than 10% of all Jews in the US actually practice the religious tenet in any way shape or form. Mostly they are born into 'jewish' and do what they want when they want so it is more of a social thing. Personally I have chosen an alternate spiritual path over 25 years ago and rarely miss the opportunity to let people know I do not consider myself Jewish in the least EXCEPT that my family was Jewish.

Answer 2

As has been said, being Jewish is also an ethnicity as well as it is a religion.

I have practiced an earth-based spirituality for about 13 years now. So, while I call myself Pagan, I still know that I will always be Jewish by ethnicity....and I will forever be spouting Yiddish and doing certain things that most Jews commonly do (like a lot of complaining. LOL!) as I will never be able to shake my "Jewishness" because it is the culture I was raised in. It is who I am. While I don't believe in the religious side to it, the cultural side will always stay with me and the ethnicity you can't change. I am what I am.

Answer 3

Because Judaism is both an ethnicity and a religion. A non-religious Jew is ethnically Jewish, not religiously Jewish.

There are, in fact, genetic markers that can track certain Jewish lines of lineage.

Answer 4

After being a secular Jew for many, many years (religious now) one thing I learned....no matter how much one tries to hide or ignore the fact that one is a Jew, the rest of the world never lets him forget it.

Answer 5

Well, there is more to being Jewish that being religous. Its a nationality/ethnic origin too. Like african americans who have never left Chicago. Make sense?

Answer 6

judism is more a cummunity than a religion. Afterall religious people have some ethics to follow ........