Why Jews are loony

According to the 2022 National Jewish Identity Survey by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR), 25% of British Jews do not believe in God or any higher power, while 34% believe in God as described in the Bible and 41% believe in a higher spiritual force but not God.

Among those who are members of a synagogue, 56% do not believe in God, with 44% believing in God as described in the Bible. Additionally, 69% of British Jews overall consider belief in God to be not central to being a good Jew, and two-thirds of non-believers attend synagogue at least on the High Holy Days.

Nevertheless, if only a third of Jews have faith in God, as described in the Bible, where does that leave Judaism? Is it inevitably on the same downward path as Christianity? Not necessarily. A key indicator of the decline of organised religion in Britain is ‘bums-on-pews’ – i.e. that only people who believe in God are likely to attend church. Even if that is true, it doesn’t seem to apply to Jews. In the Jewish case, according to the survey’s data, more than half (56%) of paid-up synagogue members do not believe in God, and nearly two in five Jewish atheists belong to a synagogue. Moreover, irrespective of whether they belong to a synagogue or not, two out of three (65%) Jews who don’t believe in God attend synagogue at least on the High Holy Days of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. Jews, it seems, are pretty comfortable belonging without believing.

https://www.jpr.org.uk/insights/belonging-without-believing-british-jewish-identity-and-god

RemyBrown wrote:

Jews speak their own language and had their own kingdom for centuries.

Which prose? Hebrew? Yiddish? Christians and Muslims had their own exclusive proses too (historically).

Ah yes, the unknown CHRISTIAN language hitherto spoken by all Christians!

Magoroth wrote:

RemyBrown wrote:

Jews speak their own language and had their own kingdom for centuries.

Which prose? Hebrew? Yiddish? Christians and Muslims had their own exclusive proses too (historically).

Ah yes, the unknown CHRISTIAN language hitherto spoken by all Christians!

Hebrew was a dead lamguage until it was ressurected a few decades ago. And back when it was a living kanguage, Christians also spoke it.

Not sure about either lamguages or kanguages, but post Jesus folktales that migrated from their point of origin were readily recorded and transcribed into Greek and Latin, whereas Hebrew tended to be the language of Judaists, who weren't Christians and therefore didn't compile Bibles per se...It was in fact, not until Christian mythology was popularised in central and western Europe that the "Holy Bible" was compiled.

RemyBrown wrote:

Right now, we're speaking the modern 21st century Christain prose; American.

Which is spoken by millions of non-Christians

The 39 books of the Hebrew Bible were largely established and recognized by the Jewish authorities at the time of Jesus and his disciples in the 1st century AD.

The Gospels and Paul were written between 40AD and 90AD. By the apostles and Paul.

The 27 books of the new Testament (along with the full Christian Bible was formally listed and affirmed by the early church council in the late 4th century including the Council of Rome in 382 AD.