• klemptor
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    8 hours ago

    Yeah my dad is a Jewish atheist (or agnostic, depending on how much he feels like placating my catholic mom lol)

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      I am also a Jewish atheist married to a formerly Christian (although not since she was a child) atheist.

      And for those who say that you cannot be an atheist and a Jew, the following people are/were atheists:

      Larry David
      Sarah Silverman
      Both Carl and Rob Reiner
      Gene Wilder
      Jerry Lewis
      Randy Newman

      Even (although I hate to bring him up) Woody Allen is an atheist. Good luck convincing people either Larry David or Woody Allen aren’t Jewish.

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      7 hours ago

      how much he feels like placating my catholic mom lol

      Please tell me she has, at least once, made a reference to “your people killing my savior”

      I know an ethnically jewish/religious catholic couple that do this every time they get into an argument and realize it’s stupid to argue about, one of them will go “WELL YOU KILLED MY GOD!” and that’s basically the end of the argument because they’re too busy giggling.

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        7 hours ago

        I wish! My mom is DEVOUT. She has no sense of humor about it. If any of us tried to joke about it she’d send us right to purgatory (aka the catholic pattern buffer).

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          5 hours ago

          pattern buffer

          I’ve checked the logs myself, there’s no anomalous readings from the pattern buffers. Shhhhhhh