The shared center — held across the tradition
Judaism is an evolving religious civilization.
Not only a religion: a people's whole civilization — language, art, land, law — evolving like any living culture.
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The past gets a vote, not a veto.
Tradition is honored as the record of the people's search — and overruled when conscience requires.
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Held by most — broad, but not universal
God is the power that makes for salvation.
Kaplan's naturalism: not a person who intervenes, but the process working through nature and community that makes life holy.
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Cosmos & Afterlife
how reality is built, and what follows deathAfter death
This-worldly; the hereafter held very lightly