As much as I pity them their faith has text that contradict their position. If the text do not reflect their position, should they change the text? They seem reluctant to. So can there really be a moderate Jewish person who is true to their faith? If they are truly moderate, and denounce the text, then maybe the Jewish culture needs to split from Jewish faith.
Depends which text you're reading. The Torah (which was supposedly given from God directly) contradicts their position. But the Talmud (which was written by Rabbis in Babylonian captivity) promotes their position. In fact, almost every single concept you'd consider a crime against humanity is encouraged in the Talmud to be employed by the Jew against a Goy (non-Jew). Most modern Judaism is Rabbinic (Torah + heavy emphasis on Talmud) and a tiny minority is Karaite (reject Talmud).
Then they are not really Jewish. Not more than a man born in a Christian family but left the faith, but still celebrates Christmas because his family does. In the Christian case, that man would not consider himself a secular Christian. By extension, secular Jew do not exist, it is an oxymoron. There can only be a secular person with Jewish cultural influence, not secular Jew.
Right. This whole concept of 'Jewish as an ethnicity' was fabricated for the Israelis and has no historical value; as Western society (including Israel) was moving away from religion uncontrollably, the casus belli on which Israel was founded was becoming insufficient (i.e. a homeland for the Jewish religion). So, they concocted this new idea that Jew is also an ethnicity; therefore, an "atheist" Jew can claim Israel on an ethnic basis.
But this new concept is more flawed than the previous. The flaw is purely academic in nature and contradicts history because a
Jew was the title given to a resident of the ancient Kingdom of Judah which is not the same as the ancient Kingdom of Israel. Israel and Jew together is non sequitur.
And of course, substantiating the claim that Mr. Kohen from Lithuania or Mr. Levi from Poland descended from the Kingdom of Israel, 2000 years ago, has found all the evidence to the contrary.
In short, list of modern fabrications:
- Israelite/Jew = same thing
- Kingdom of Israel was Jewish
- Kingdom of Judah and Kingdom of Israel were united
- Jew is an ethnicity
- Jews all over the world descended from ancient Israel
- Jews were the first inhabitants of Israel (they forgot ancient Egyptians who ruled here thousands of years before Judaism even came into existence)
- Arabs cannot be Israelite
- Only Jews are Semitic
- Ashkenazi are Semitic (contradicting the Torah)
- Ancient Israel extended to western Iran, southern Turkey and central Saudi Arabia (conservative view), and maybe as far as Afghanistan and Yemen (exaggerated view)
