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[–] imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Shrimp man is clearly wearing a yarmulke. Must be one of those atheist jews we've been hearing so much about.

[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't an atheist jew just a jew?

Ernest Krausz; Gitta Tulea (1997). Jewish Survival: The Identity Problem at the Close of the Twentieth Century; [... International Workshop at Bar-Ilan University on the 18th and 19th of March, 1997]. Transaction Publishers. pp. 90–. ISBN 978-1-4128-2689-1. "A person born Jewish who refutes Judaism may continue to assert a Jewish identity, and if he or she does not convert to another religion, even religious Jews will recognize the person as a Jew"

The yarmulke is a religious symbol, not an ethnic one. And since Mr Crustacean is wearing it on a date, and not just to temple, he is an orthodox jew. I should have said "atheist orthodox jews", but I was concerned that the commenter wasn't well educated enough to know what that meant.