From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!tekid!davido Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Religous Matters Article-I.D.: tekid.774 Posted: Tue Jan 25 16:49:38 1983 Received: Fri Jan 28 20:44:34 1983 The whole basis of Judaism is the belief in one God. Remember the Shema?: "Shema Yisrael: Adonai Elohenu, Adonai Echod" (Hear O Israel: the Lord your God, the Lord is One.) If you don't believe in one God, you are *not* Jewish. To suggest otherwise is to totally destroy the meaning of the term. My name for what you are calling a Judaism without God is secular humanism. One can be Jewish and a secular humanist, but to reiterate, one can't be Jewish without believing in one God. (Parenthetically to you Christians, this is also the nub of the difference between our two religions. It is not the disbelief in the existence of Jesus (although there are some historical anomalies that have never been fully explained to my satisfaction), but the concept of the Trilogy. For God to be one, he cannot be three; therefore Jesus can not be God or part of God. The above should not be taken as a sermon; rather it is my attempt at an exposition of the salient difference between the religions.)