This is presumptuous & associating all that is good with own faith can lead to associating disbelievers w rejection of all that is good buthttps://twitter.com/HPluckrose/status/887215000179396608 …
This is what I'm responding to. He's American. Wondering if this attitude indicates a similar progression towards secular ideas of morality
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It could be, or a sign that there are fewer people who affiliate to make the religious=moral equality
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I can think of two inexact parallels in the Jewish world. One is the idea of being a "Mensch" but that's usually distinct from the religion
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The second is the colloquial use of "mitzvah" as "good deed" when it really means "commandment"
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But if anything, those examples (and the larger trend) assimilate external conceptions of morality rather than equate the religion w/ethics
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Yes. But could this assimilation - the mixing of goodness with God - be what eventually makes God redundant to many people? I don't know.
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Religion (at least Judaism) isn't just the good deeds. It is also the religious practices. Jews need both.
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Maybe. More British Christians lose them every year, as you know. But apostatising from Judaism is way less common.
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Judaism is different. Its not just a religion. Its also a culture and identity. Its why you get people who ID as Jewish atheists.
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