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.)