What are you running now?

I heard from a rabbi that a Jew is anyone who Jehovah gave commandments in the desert via Moses, plus all descendants down the maternal lines, plus anybody that converts. So essentially a series of lineages.

What confuses me is the "secular jew". Because if you don't believe in G-d or the Jewish religion, why would you still believe in the religious definition of what a Jew is?

I suppose it is because they consider themselves part of that community of people.

I was born to a Seventh-Day Adventist mother whose maternal lineage was SDA right back to the founding of SDA. If SDA had that same definition, I'd be a secular SDA. Even more so for me since I was a practicing SDA as a child. But I don't consider myself an SDA at all.

Yes this makes sense. My rule system is classical liberalism (liberty, equality, justice, human rights, government by the people) and classical morality (humility, discipline, integrity, respect, tolerance, love for my fellow man, and the desire for everybody to succeed) but without belief in god.

Unfortunately I feel that most people are not intelligent enough to understand why these principles work so well, and once science found evolution and dropped god out of the equasion, many people dropped morality too. They thought morality was something people do to get to heaven, and if there is no god, then there is no need for it. But IMHO morality is very functional, it is only that the reasons it works so well require high intelligence and most people can't understand them. Morality and religion perhaps evolved as adaptive traits, where societies that didn't believe in god behaved differently to their detriment and died out.

Oh.

USA gov?

Where’s the de-zap button? 😛

Why? Just wondering

Many thanks for the feedback. Yes pockets are in the 2.0s.. coming around the corner. Waterprooof materials is a good idea ~ many thanks