Occam’s Beard

doesn’t that explanation just move the phenomenon back one step?

I’m not sure whether the argument of the book Public Policy and Social Issues: Jewish Sources and Perspectives by Marshall J. Breger (review posted above) also moves it back a step . . . but the review made me wonder whether Jews were earlier than other groups to shift religious fervor to secular fervor (I’m talking about the “church of the left”).

I’ve read & heard that Jews don’t tend to believe in God as frequently as Christians do, and if that’s the case it makes sense that Jews would transfer their religious commitment to social justice to the secular, political realm.

Of course that begs the question of why Jews would begin to lose belief sooner than Christians, assuming that is the case.