On the eve of Rosh Hashanah we talk with Paul Golin, executive director of the Society for Humanistic Judaism promoting the concept of being Jewish absent a belief in God. Is that even possible? @paulgolin@humanisticjews@JFASD_ORG#RoshHashana#faith#religion
.@paulgolin: #Secular people participate in rituals and celebrate religious holidays for nonreligous reasons—community, meaning, comfort, love. “It’s a way of being in relationship with the calendar, but really to be in relationship with other people.”
#SSACon#humanism
Thank you to @paulgolin and the @humanisticjews and @JFASD_ORG for a terrific conversation last night about atheism, religious privilege, and my forthcoming book WE OF LITTLE FAITH (@GodinePub). And thank you to everyone who joined us from around the country and the world!
@SarahTheHaider @Araweel0Returns I believe my wife is the same, and maybe my son. We've had discussions about it. I, on the other hand, couldn't get my internal monologue to turn off if I used a sledgehammer to my head. And yes, it is very hard to imagine how the other kind of brain works.
@McReynoldsJoe I loved this book, thank you for it. I just got back from my 17th visit to Tokyo (I married in) and it changed the way I saw the city, for the better. I visited three case studies (two on purpose, one coincidentally), and saw many further examples wherever I turned. Kudos!
@MichaelDelTufo Happy birthday! Missed you last month when I brought the wife and kids by to see your show I mean Rich's show. Keep up all the great stuff you do!
I was invited to give an MLK speech today and a small number of members of the group hosting me wrote and then leaked emails opposing my giving this speech, as it dishonored Dr. King for me to do so. They called me a "discredited activist" "unworthy of such association with King"
@DEdwards__ I see your many excellent social justice tweets, Donovan. The people who want you to fail in the fight for a free and just world also want you to hate Jews. Thank you for this apology and for rejecting their hateful agenda. In solidarity—and Go Blue.