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What is Ignostic Judaism?

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Contents

Table of Contents...........................................................................................Page 4:Preface.....................................................................................................Page 6:Acknowledgements............................................................................................Page 8:Definitions.................................................................................................Page 10:Dedication..................................................................................................Page 11:Chapter I: Science..........................................................................................Page 12:Prelude.....................................................................................................Page 13:Copy Letter to the Editor, New Jersey Jewish News...........................................................Page 15:Statements of Rosalind Franklin and myself..................................................................Page 17:What is science?............................................................................................Page 22:Is Belief in God Required?..................................................................................Page 25:Chapter II: Religion........................................................................................Page 26:Generations sought solutions and "created" answers..........................................................Page 29:Has Judaism evolved?........................................................................................Page 41:Judaism without the supernatural without revelation.........................................................Page 45:Ancient literature and our Bible............................................................................Page 48:My Epiphany.................................................................................................Page 53:Does Religion promote Peace or A Piece of ...?..............................................................Page 59:"Thou shall have no other Gods ... for I ... am a Jealous God.".............................................Page 61:Where is the benevolent God who loves everyone?.............................................................Page 63:Rationalizations to explain Auschwitz.......................................................................Page 65:Authoritarian vs. Humanistic Religions......................................................................Page 69:Religion and Democratic Government..........................................................................Page 71:Proud to be a Jew...........................................................................................Page 72:An agenda for a Ignostic Jew................................................................................Page 76:The Hebrew and Aramaic languages anchor us to the past; English leads us to the future......................Page 83:Chapter III: Faith..........................................................................................Page 84:Have Faith, and Enjoy the Benefits..........................................................................Page 88:How religion distorts.......................................................................................Page 90:The Inquisitions............................................................................................Page 93:Who are the Neturei Karta?..................................................................................Page 94:Do not throw out the baby with the bath water...............................................................Page 96:An open letter to my grandchildren..........................................................................Page 98:Epilogue – Ignorance is not bliss; it is oblivion! Problem #1 Intelligent Design......................Page 99:Problem #2 Gay marriage and Abortion........................................................................Page 100:Problem #3 Dar al Islam.....................................................................................Page 103:Chapter IV: The Organizations...............................................................................Page 104:International Federation for Secular & Humanistic Judaism...................................................Page 110:The Center for Cultural Judaism.............................................................................Page 111:The Jewish Cultural School and Society The Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations.........................Page 113:Book II: Potpourri of "Serious Narishkeit" (Foolishness)....................................................Page 114:Rudyard Kipling's "If"......................................................................................Page 115:John Lennon's "Imagine".....................................................................................Page 116:Langdon Smith's "Evolution," (A love story).................................................................Page 120:Do you plan to live on ... and on ... and on ...?...........................................................Page 121:Who is wise, who is rich & who is successful?...............................................................Page 122:Ed Brody's "Jews for Cheeses"...............................................................................Page 124:"Hell" explained by a Univ. of Washington student...........................................................Page 126Hello, your call is important to us.........................................................................Page 128:Bibliography................................................................................................Page 131:Index of People.............................................................................................Page 135:Index of Rabbis.............................................................................................Page 136:Miscellaneous index.........................................................................................Page 138:

Chapter One

Prelude

Five years ago I read the enclosed "Letter to the Editor" in the New Jersey Jewish News, which is reproduced on the following pages. The article emphatically stated that "evolution is no more than a theory and a very unconvincing one at that." Furthermore it claims "Intelligent Design uses the same sophisticated tools of science but with much more convincing results." The Jewish author, a physicist, has a record of accomplishment including more than 150 journal publications and more than 200 American & foreign patents.

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