{"id":5934,"date":"2007-03-14T01:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T16:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/14\/in-which-i-might-be-jewish\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T16:50:00","slug":"in-which-i-might-be-jewish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/in-which-i-might-be-jewish\/","title":{"rendered":"In Which I Might Be Jewish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day, we were having a discussion about religion, and the lack thereof on the part of, uh, some of us.  Here&#8217;s my take:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I call myself agnostic, as the whole point is that I admit I don&#8217;t know the nature of the unknowable. You know, being mortal and all. I get a kick out of &#8220;Atheists&#8221; who want to prove that there is no Creator. Go ahead, I say, but be quick about it&#8211;Jesus is coming.  <\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that if anything, I&#8217;m a Zionist. I feel politically very Jewish these days. I looked into the least religious variety of Judaism, but for crying out loud, it&#8217;s a bunch of idiots dressed up as a church. With no God. How&#8217;s that supposed to work? At that point, isn&#8217;t it a club? Hell, I&#8217;m more Jewish than they are! At least I admit that there *might* be a God. It&#8217;s not given to me to know these things.<\/p>\n<p>So I feel Jewish and I don&#8217;t know why. But I&#8217;m agnostic, and have been for better than twenty years. So I&#8217;m not really in the market, as it were. Joining a church would be intellectually dishonest.<\/p>\n<p>Just the same, I hope that our friends without the ham don&#8217;t mind if occasionally I say &#8220;WE&#8221;.  I feel it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5934\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"5934\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day, we were having a discussion about religion, and the lack thereof on the part of, uh, some of us. Here&#8217;s my take:<\/p>\n<p>I call myself agnostic, as the whole point is that I admit I don&#8217;t know the nature of the unknowable. You know, being mortal and all. I get a kick out of &#8220;Atheists&#8221; who want to prove that there is no Creator. Go ahead, I say, but be quick about it&#8211;Jesus is coming. <\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>I guess that if anything, I&#8217;m a Zionist. I feel politically very Jewish these days. I looked into the least religious variety of Judaism, but for crying out loud, it&#8217;s a bunch of idiots dressed up as a church. With no God. How&#8217;s that supposed to work? 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