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@6 Mr. Cyncial

Asking a Jew whether he is a "believer?" is more than a little insulting. Do you have any idea what Judaism is?

There is no credo, no statement of what a Jew must believe. An aetheist (me) can be a very good Jew (I hope)

Of course there is a Jewish religion and historically that religion has been the glue that has held our community together. Individual Jews may or may not believe in that religion, however, the religion itself teaches that living an ethical life is far more important than believing in some specific picture of God or story about the Garden of Eden.

So amongst us, Einstein, Salk, Spinoza, .... all atheists, we are all Jews.

Beyond that, why you think the book of Daniel is a revelation from God anymore that the Egyptian Book of the Dead is, to me, a profound mystery. FWIW, in Judaism the only "revelation" is books of Moses. You obviously do not understand that Christians have misappropriated our legends to form their bible.

So yeh .. I am a proud Jew and I try very hard to live within our tradition. I am also an atheist. While I certainly can not speak for Goldy, I suspect he and I share a pride in people who have lived great lives built on Jewish principles ... including Samuel Gompers and Saul Alinsky ..."community organizers" who led the US labor movement, the Mississippi three who died in the the civil rights cause, Hannah Senesh who sacrificed her life to organize rebellion against the Nazis, etc.

Against this background, Sarah Palin is more than a little disgusting. She represents the barbarians "we" have fought against for three thousand years.