Entered by Noor Salik
The concept of a secular Jew has always fascinated me.
Why a secular mind would cling to his/her Jewishness?
May be it is persistence of tribalism in human existence. A need to belong to some identifiable group. This point can be discussed later on. I did some Google searches. I found out that 44% of American Jews identify themselves as Secular. The next group with highest percentage is Buddhism. 22% of Buddhists in America classify themselves as secular. I wonder what % of Muslims classify themselves as secular?
I could not create a hyperlink for this article. But if you copy and paste the following link in URL, you may read this article about Secular Jew. An interesting article with important information about religious and cultural identities.
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A secular Jew is like a secular Muslim. He will eat pork (wine for Muslims, few of them eat pork), will condemn Israel, but visit Jerusalem once in a lifetime, support Palestinians but fund Israel, stand up against discrimination-linguistic, ethnic, racial or gender. Will be open minded, careful in spending (unlike secular Muslims), will be open minded and well read, % higher than secular Muslims, due to the mind set brought up in.
The above is based on personal experience.