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A nonny nonny
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Date: January 21, 2018 07:25PM
I'm not sure jews are an accurate comparison. Unlike LDS, there are MANY brands and levels of judaism, even jewish humanism. Judaism is a religion, a culture an ethnicity. My mother who is a serious ethnic/cultural jew, but thinks nothing of eating bacon before services on yom kippor or ham and cheese on her matzoh. But she loves the services, the traditions, the family holidays (the family are at various ends on the jewish spectrum, none are orthodox, only some keep kosher). She prays to "god" and feels strongly about the torah, at the same time also feels strongly that the stories are fables and oral history with scientific explanations.
This is all accepted in judaism. It's not considered hypocrisy by mainstream jews. One's jewishness isn't determined by synagogue membership, activity/inactivity, etc. Even for those who do belong to a temple, you can pick the philosophy that resonates with you, orthodox, modern orthodox, chabad lubavitch, conservative, reform/liberal, reconstructionist, humanist, or just go to services on the high holy days, or just spend them with family, or not even any of that.You can go somewhere in your area, across town, whatever, it doesn't matter. With LDS, there's only one real way, there's a file on you, you can't be a casual LDS member, honest about it and still be in good standing.