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What would you improve? || What I like about being a secular Jew is to keep Jewish values and to celebrate non-religious Jewish holidays. I would improve the locations of Folkshul to more parts of the country. || * What do you like about being Jewish, secular, humanist?
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 * How can you be moral if you don't believe in God? || To be moral you just have to think for yourself. For example, I believe that murder is wrong and helping others is right. || Morality is supposed to be used to know the boundaries between good and bad without someone to enforce it rather using your own thoughts. Being moral is important not only to you as a person for the choices you make, but for your family and community. Morality is not religious, but more of what different people think morality is. Morality can be different in everyone's mind, but some believe that god makes all of the moral or the high ranking leaders do yet it is more person to person than one may think. I do have certain morals, but there are always exceptions to different circumstances. If two or more people believe strongly about a different morals then there might be a argument or a discussion sharing two ideas in a __//**respectful**//__ disagreement depending on the people. People create their own morals so not everyone has to follow a strict guideline of them. There is no such thing as a Universal Moral Value because too many people create their own morals to follow. There are no objective values, because any moral belief can be disagreed with by other people. ||
 * Can you be a Jew and not believe in god(s) ||  ||   ||
 * Who is a secular, humanist Jew? || A Jew that thinks more scientific and more humanistic. || A secular humanistic Jew is a Jew that believes that the bible teaches lessons that are to improve your moral self rather than a set of rules to base your life off of. They also are spiritual and think of other people and the greater good of the world. ||
 * What happens when you die - is there a heaven? a hell? ||  ||   ||
 * How do you know what is true? ||  ||   ||
 * What is the meaning of life if there is(are) no god(s)? ||  ||   ||
 * Does being rational/logical mean you miss out on the emotional side of life? ||  ||   ||
 * Is the Bible a book of stories, myths, history? ||  ||   ||
 * Do secular Jews pray? ||  ||   ||
 * How do secular humanists solve problems without god to guide them? ||  ||   ||
 * How do we explain non-rational things – emotions, feelings, belief? ||  ||   ||
 * Do secular humanists believe in Nature instead of god(s)? ||  ||   ||
 * Does science replace religion for secular humanists? ||  ||   ||
 * What does it mean that not all ideas are equally good? ||  ||   ||
 * Who do secular humanists believe are responsible for bringing about change in the world? ||  ||   ||
 * Are secular humanists spiritual? ||  ||   ||
 * Why are you Jewish? || I am Jewish because i was born Jewish. || I am Jewish I was born by my mother who was Jewish and my mother's mother's was Jewish. That is why i am Jewish. ||
 * What is more important, action or belief? || Action because it helps the cause. || It is more important to take action because if you see someone getting Bullied it is not enough to believe that it is wrong for that to happen, but it does matter if you act. With just belief and no action, nothing will be done to change what you believe needs changed; just a bunch of people thinking it should be done. If you do act then what needs to be changed will change. After that more people would look upon your actions and take action too. ||
 * What do you like about being Jewish, secular, humanist?
 * __//**I like being a Secular, Humanistic Jew because it is a culture with an open mind. It is to be a Jew, but not have to believe in God. Being a Secular Humanistic Jew means to keep the culture and to be more focused on peace, justice, and our history as a whole. This is what I believe in, so this is what I like about being Jewish, secular, and humanist.**//__
 * What would you improve?
 * __//**I would improve the locations of Folkshul. I think that you should expand to Pittsburgh because then I could meet other Secular Jewish kids! It would also make my lessons much better so that we could have them face to face not phone to phone. An even better solution would be to loan out Web Cams so that we could technically be face to face but still over the computer.**//__ ||
 * what is the difference between knowing and believing? ||  ||   ||
 * Who wrote the Bible? ||  ||   ||