# Is Christianity just Judaism lite? (Or, how I lost my religion.)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-christianity-just-judaism-lite-or-how-i-lost-my-religion/476181>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 7, 2008, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-christianity-just-judaism-lite-or-how-i-lost-my-religion/476181 "2008-12-07T23:43:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sal\_Ammoniac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@Sal\_Ammoniac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sal_Ammoniac)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-christianity-just-judaism-lite-or-how-i-lost-my-religion/476181/21 "2008-12-10T02:36:10Z")

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I’ve always felt that Christianity was categorically different from Judaism, though springing from the same roots. Christianity is about sin and redemption, where Judaism is basically about following rules. In fact, Judaism and Islam seem much more kin than Judaism and Christianity (which is why, parenthetically, I hate the way the term “Judeo-Christian” is typically used, as if Judaism and Christianity were basically flavors of the same thing).

So no, I can’t get behind “Judaism lite.” (What religion is “lite,” anyway?)

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**Author:** ![Spurious\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/94ad74/32.png) [@Spurious\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spurious_George)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-christianity-just-judaism-lite-or-how-i-lost-my-religion/476181/22 "2008-12-11T01:36:33Z")

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> [@manila](#):
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> I mean as a kid he preached in synogogues and spread the jewish word (so as to speak) in other words his version was jew -lite!

> [@Sal\_Ammoniac](#):
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> So no, I can’t get behind “Judaism lite.” (What religion is “lite,” anyway?)

I know this is GD, and I apologise for the drive-by, but I simply must say that my absolute favorite 60’s girl group was Mary Magdalene and the Jew-Lites.

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