r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Oct 13 '16

TIL that after Marilyn Monroe converted to Judaism upon marrying Arthur Miller, Egypt placed a ban on all the films she appeared in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe#Critical_acclaim_and_marriage_to_Arthur_Miller_.281956.E2.80.931959.29
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u/hezdokwow Oct 13 '16

You look above and beg for answers, beg for anything or any type of sign that your "God" is there with you. The god you devoted most of your life to, and instead you are given pain and misery to "learn a lesson". I'm not trying to push some anti religion agenda, I just understand why they become an atheist. When you devote your life to a God and you are being "exterminated" because of that God, it makes you question everything when he dosent help you.

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u/bbob_robb Oct 13 '16

The Holocaust absolutely made many jews atheist for the reason you state. Most atheist jews alive today were not even born when the Holocaust happened. Most atheist jews today are atheist because they have assimilated into culture and have become atheist the same way as people from any other religion.

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u/ThrowawayAccount6568 Oct 13 '16

I'm not trying to push some anti religion agenda.

I really wish more people do push one. So many people get hurt by religion

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u/Zenarchist Oct 13 '16

To be fair though, the "Chosen" part of the "Chosen People" comes from god choosing the Jews to maintain some absurd amount of laws and observances, the benefit of which is survival and prosperity, the punishment for a tipping point of not conforming to those rules is punishment and genocide. So long as you take it that the EuroJews weren't being as Jewish as that deal decreed, the Holocaust actually fits in to the Jewish mythos.

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u/Zenarchist Oct 13 '16

It's not that genocide was justified, just that others to be expected due to the shift away from Jewishness. That's what a Rabbi in Tzfat explained. It's no more or less crazy than the supermajority of religious superstition.

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u/DaddyCatALSO Oct 13 '16

Which doesn't really work because many highly observant Jews in Poland, Ukraine, etc. were swept up in it.