It’s not actually Chapter 4, just a silly omake, but, hey, at least I wrote something again!
KORRASAMIIIIIII. Crop of my piece for the Just the Two of Us zine. So many cool pieces going into this, I can’t wait to see the finished product…
I’m in a couple Jewish facebook groups and really enjoying this one thread on Jewish atheism. ESPECIALLY this one comment where the person was like “I’ve been an atheist for a decade but enjoy observing religious holidays/services - I’m religious but not spiritual”
what a PERFECT way to describe that? the prevailing model for having one foot in religion-type things is to say “I’m spiritual, but not religious; I have belief but do not want any structure for it” and obviously that doesn’t click for me as a person with no supernatural Beliefs who is just in it for the structure
further gems from this thread (mostly paraphrased):
- “I mean we’re not supposed to name, describe, or picture God; we’re not supposed to worship other things or people; we’re not supposed to speculate about the afterlife; and we’re supposed to live as if God doesn’t exist, so….. atheism is quite a small step really”
- “We’ve been persecuted for one gazillion years all while maintaining our culture, rituals, and killer sense of humor so why the heck would I give those things up just bc there probably isn’t a God”
- Obligatory retelling of the “rabbis decide God doesn’t exist” joke
- “I recently found out most of my family members are atheists but no one thought it was important enough to mention before now”
- “menschkeit > frumkeit”
- “I JUST WANNA YELL EXCITEDLY ABOUT THIS BOOK WHO CARES IF THE STUFF HAPPENED OR NOT”
- “There is only one god! And we don’t believe in him!”