Word: judaisms
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...some authors err even more greatly: They believe that Judaism the religion is fundamentally incompatible with the expression of political and military power...
Because these authors are invariably assimilated or nearly assimilated Jews who have little knowledge of the Bible and Jewish history, they fail to realize that Judaism and Zionism cannot possibly be the sources of their moral indignation...
...often confronted by people who think that Judaism is nothing more than a set of moral values that are the precursors of modern liberalism. They locate the Jewish tradition more in the tradition of Kant and Rawls than in Moses and Hillel. The truth is that modern-day Jews who form such a large part of the mainstream of philosophers and liberal thinkers can no more lay claim to Jewish tradition than Friedrich Nietzsche could to Lutheranism...
...Judaism is an ancient religion with a complex theology, a comprehensive code of law and a large set of time-honored rituals. And like most religions, it is not very sympathetic to individualism or free thinking. Many forget that Judaism excommunicated one of history's greatest thinkers--Benedict Spinoza--for heresy...
...Judaism is a dogmatic religion, one whose tenets and laws often conflict with my own liberal philosophical views. My life benefits from both systems and from the insights I gain from the conflict between their values. It is certainly appropriate to subject Israel to a rigorous liberal standard of human rights--as long as it is made clear that liberalism, and not Judaism, is the basis for the criticism...