Humanistic Jew here!

[Cato]

So you're not ethnically Jewish and not religiously Jewish either. How are you a Jew?

I don't mean to be too critical about your inquiry and el_presidente can certainly speak for himself, but I think this has already been answered. el_presidente explicitly set aside orthodoxy. This leaves, based on his comments, a strong yearning for community buttressed by a common sincere tradition; the tradition and community ultimately being more important than the putty with which God fills the gaps. I respect this, despite my ultimate disagreement about the actual existence of any particular deity.

[Shinagami]

So you're not ethnically Jewish and not religiously Jewish either. How are you a Jew?

I don't mean to be too critical about your inquiry and el_presidente can certainly speak for himself, but I think this has already been answered. el_presidente explicitly set aside orthodoxy. This leaves, based on his comments, a strong yearning for community buttressed by a common sincere tradition; the tradition and community ultimately being more important than the putty with which God fills the gaps. I respect this, despite my ultimate disagreement about the actual existence of any particular deity.

Does this give you a right to steal Palestinian land too?

[Rahul]

One of my best friends from the military converted to Judaism. He isn't jewish in his ethnicity at all. A Georgia cracker. But for some reason he felt strongly compelled to adopt the Jewish faith.

[Rahul]

Double post

[Longhorn]

I don't mean to be too critical about your inquiry and el_presidente can certainly speak for himself, but I think this has already been answered. el_presidente explicitly set aside orthodoxy. This leaves, based on his comments, a strong yearning for community buttressed by a common sincere tradition; the tradition and community ultimately being more important than the putty with which God fills the gaps. I respect this, despite my ultimate disagreement about the actual existence of any particular deity.

Does this give you a right to steal Palestinian land too?

Just a friendly heads up, before you go too far with this, this is the intro forum and we play nice here