anyway...on another issue...people are saying Jewish people are a religious left, and...I think there's some truth to that but it's also kind of dicey? 1
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Jewish people identify as Jewish in various ways; it's an ethnic and cultural identity as well as a religious one. and Jewish leftists and liberals aren't always tying their political commitments to religious ones.
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Bernie Sanders for example is a secular Jew. when he was asked about Judaism and his political commitments he tends to talk about the Holocaust as an attack on marginalized people. Which is really moving! but
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it's not about religious commitments or traditions really; he doesn't talk about God.
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I'm a secular Jew also! It would just be odd to me to have someone include me as part of the religious left when I'm pretty much an atheist.
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and I did see people saying Sanders was part of the religious left...and I don't think that makes a lot of sense, from my perspective. Which isn't to say that there are no left Jews who are religious! There are many!
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For someone who grew up UU in a town where my church was the central square church w/ a growing congregation it’s weird to hear there’s no religious left. It doesn’t have the power or cultural place of the religious right but it’s not vestigial or missing. It was my upbringing!
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