The roots of these liberal values probably lie in Jews’ own understanding of what they went through in their history, with 73% of Jews holding the belief that remembering the Holocaust is an essential part of being Jewish. Indeed, Jews say it is the most essential part of what it means to be Jewish. Third on the list, though, at 56%, is working for justice and equality.
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Idolatry is the first sin condemned by the Ten Commandments.
So Hitler is laughing right now, having succeeded in getting millions of Jews to turn from worshiping the one true God, and taking up a kind of sterile, masturbatory Shinto ancestor worship instead, with Auschwitz as the golden calf for good measure, and a Holocaust Industrial Complex providing cushy jobs to a self-chosen few.
