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This is totally an honest-to-goodness question, I'm not trying to stir up shit. I'm posting it to my personal journal because I might get yelled at if I post it in a community.
Is there any particular reason why it's considered far more socially/morally acceptable to be an Atheist Jew than a Messianic Jew? (Assume, for the purposes of this question, both people are ethnically Jewish and do not run around obnoxiously trying to convert people to their point of view). I mean, both are technically a rejection of what many would consider fundamental parts of Jewish religious belief, but one seems to be something most of the Jewish community is willing to let slide and one is considered pretty terrible.
*I actually am uncomfortable with a lot of Messianic Judaism because it's very socially conservative, which is the same reason I have an issue with the LDS or Southern Baptist church. I also do think there's an uncomfortable level of cultural appropriation among Messianic Jews who are not culturally/ethnically Jewish, but I know at least one ethnically Jewish person who's Messianic and it kind of made me go "hmm..."
Is there any particular reason why it's considered far more socially/morally acceptable to be an Atheist Jew than a Messianic Jew? (Assume, for the purposes of this question, both people are ethnically Jewish and do not run around obnoxiously trying to convert people to their point of view). I mean, both are technically a rejection of what many would consider fundamental parts of Jewish religious belief, but one seems to be something most of the Jewish community is willing to let slide and one is considered pretty terrible.
*I actually am uncomfortable with a lot of Messianic Judaism because it's very socially conservative, which is the same reason I have an issue with the LDS or Southern Baptist church. I also do think there's an uncomfortable level of cultural appropriation among Messianic Jews who are not culturally/ethnically Jewish, but I know at least one ethnically Jewish person who's Messianic and it kind of made me go "hmm..."