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- Embed this notice@Paradox The common factors are way more numerous: patriarchy, shame, sexual repression, homomisia, submission of your will to God™'s will, monotheism, to name but a few. All distinctly Abrahamic memes. My point is that they have infected common notions of morality (particularly in The West™) so deeply, and for so long, that even ATHEISTS are subordinate to this value system.
(Also, the argument is frequently made that Judaism isn't just a religion but also an ethnocultural identity, and I think that is bullshit rhetoric designed to "claim" people because of where they were born and who their parents were. I don't care how much of Jewish doctrine emphasises concepts like blood or tribe, religions are voluntary and a matter of choice: an ethnic Hebrew raised in a Jewish family is absolutely free to reject that religion should they so choose, the right is inextricable and if we allow ourselves to be robbed of the ability to articulate the ethnocultural factors WITHOUT the religion, we minimise these people's agency.)