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We Jews are so glad that Judaism is not<\/em> a religion. It doesn\u2019t matter if you are a polytheistic, henotheistic, monotheistic, pantheistic, or atheistic Jew, so long as you are Indigenously Jewish! Meaning, observant\/wrestling in our Judean-orignating ancestral laws \u2013 we call this Jewish halachot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabbi Menachem Manis HaKohen Friedman teaches it this way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSo, I get this a lot: \u201cWell, if you are shomer halacha and not a biblical literalist, then you\u2019re really an atheist!\u201d If so, then I\u2019m proud to be one, because as Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook taught:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAtheism displays the power of life. Therefore, the real spiritual heroes extract sparks of great kindness from their atheism and turn its bitterness into sweetness.\u201d \u2013 Rav Kook, Arfilei Tohar, \u00a7 120<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe destructive wind of disbelief will purify all the filth that gathered in the lower realm of the spirit of faith\u2026 Its light will shine as a new light upon Zion with a wondrous greatness.\u201d \u2013 Rav Kook, Shemona Kevatzim 1:476, Orot haTehiyah, ch. 51, p. 199<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, it\u2019s always okay to question and challenge our understanding as Jews. One can be shomer halacha and an atheist, at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not a new development for our Jewish people, for Rabbis throughout the thousands of years have affirmed that being Jewish is all about our Indigenous Judean-orignating halachot system (our Jewish people\u2019s laws) and not about a specific \u201ctheological\u201d belief. We Jews have no established universal \u201cfaith\u201d creed, like both Colonial Christianity and Colonial Islam has, for it is unnecessary to being Jewish \u2013 meaning to being a legal member of the people of Israel. \u201cFaith\u201d is for gentiles, and showing \u201clove\u201d for YHWH of the land of Israel by mitzvot\/halachot observance is Jewish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you didn\u2019t know this, that\u2019s okay! For most people are taught to think they know the Jews and our ethno-religious ways, and rarely are Jews included into the worldwide discussion about things Jewish \u2013 especially, through questions! Then, when this rarely happens, often a successfully colonized Jew that is non-threatening to Colonial Christianity and Colonial Islam is brought in to educate \u201cappropriately\u201d, without upsetting the Colonial Arab-European order of things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, back to the above, please allow me to ask the modern<\/em> obvious question: How can you be both polytheistic and shomer halacha (a traditional indigenous Jew)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The only thing being \u201cpolytheistic\u201d implies is that you recognize the human species reality that there are many \u201cGod\u201ds in this human world but, as an observant Jew, you only reserve your devoted commitment to YHWH, the god-King of the Jews. For YHWH is a jealous deity<\/em> who doesn\u2019t want his Indigenous Judean vassaled people \u201cwhoring\u201d themselves to other people\u2019s gods (whether ethno-religious land-based or Colonial universalist). Torah never said to \u201cbelieve\u201d in this god, only to \u201clove\u201d through mitzvot observance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We Jews are so glad that Judaism is not<\/em> a religion! It must literally suck to have a mind so trapped in theology that you can\u2019t question this theology itself. Thankfully, we Indigenous Peoples all around this world get the danger<\/em> of this! Not just for our people\u2019s survival, but for how theology distorts human minds into indifferent supremacists with, if privileged, impunity. Your sins always forgiven by a deity, this clouds the human mind into social injustice<\/em>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trust me. Give this Jew some time, and I will make you a \u201cbeliever\u201d in Indigenous Peoples\u2019 ways, understanding, and view of this human world. Also, this is why we Jews do not proselytize<\/em>, because other Indigenous Peoples are not<\/em> wrong in their \u201creligious\u201d beliefs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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META Description : Judaism is not a religion. It doesn\u2019t matter if you are a polytheistic, monotheistic, atheistic Jew, so long as you are Indigenously Jewish!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UPDATE Comparative Thought: \u201cThe story of Jesus originates in a monotheistic society.\u201d \u2026 Absolutely wrong!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Jews, monotheism was a 12th c CE development. The Jews of the late BCE through late early CE were henotheists. Including the Jews who wrote most of Mark and all of Matthew, before the teachings of the Jesus sect were appropriated by gentile Aegeans up north for their new found religion, Colonial Christianity. Henotheism is the recognition that all nations have their own land gods, but Israel is monolatrous only to YHWH, the land god of the Judean Canaan Levant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of Jesus originates in the polytheistic world of the ANE. During this period, Jews were a devotedly monolatrous Middle Eastern Indigenous nation (for the most part!), and responding to the polytheistic influences of the Greco-Roman empire. Even northern Aegean-created Christianity was polytheistic influenced in its very creation. We Jews should know, for it is our lived history! If only diaspora Jews weren\u2019t so threatened by structural Colonial Arab-European antisemitism, they could then be more honest about lived Jewish history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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