I'm sorry, I have to take this comment apart piece by piece.

It's /r/debatereligion. Debating is implied. :D Saying that what I have said is wrong remains to be seen. I'm not as educated in judaism as some of the other religions, so maybe I'll learn something as well. I usually just try to run everything through a logic filter and it works out nicely. We'll see how it goes.

No harm other than definitional harm. There is no objective reason to believe there is any physical or psychological harm done other than simply saying a change is damage or saying that disagreeing with your parents is psychological harm. There is no way to attack circumcision and remain constant with parental rights.

Doctors have discovered that babies suffer extreme pain and stress, they even stop crying sometimes because they are in so much pain that they go into shock. We don't remember this memory, but this leads to how hypocritically religions treat stem-cell research. If they're willing to put a baby through that much pain, but they're not willing to use the free-mutating cells to cure existing, established life. It's absolutely terrible.

Belief in the Jewish G-d gives deferential treatment to science. It allows for all explanations of creation other than magic. So long as it's logical, it's fine. It's not a limiting belief, but a liberating belief.

That's very interesting. If god didn't create the universe then that means god had to be created, and I'm wondering how you can come to believe in a god that is created beyond the creation of a universe but still doesn't show himself beyond the anecdotes of your fellow peers.

Time is a part of the universe. It's called the space time continuum and it's what the world is built on. G-d created time, so G-d could have a beginning. The idea of a before and after require time, which G-d created and is not bound by. It's an illogical question. It sounds like words, but when you parse it, it's illogical gibberish. What changed before time? Change without change? Doesn't compute.

Time is a result of the creation of the universe. It's just the method we use to interpret continual change. God cannot create methods of measurement. Humans did that to make sense of the universe. It's not a thing to be created and manipulated. In fact, the only thing that we know could possibly manipulate time is if two black holes collide. There is a theoretical path that one could take that would put them slightly back in time, but they wouldn't come out alive, probably just the emission of reflective light and not the particles themselves, but this is all just theoretical astrophysics. Think of it this way. Is it possible for a universe to exist without continual change? If no, then why would a god have to create it? If yes, then how can a god act in a universe without change, let alone exist before the universe is even formed. We know that nothing can come from something, but it's a gratuitous leap to say that intelligence exists before life.

Wrong religion. Judaism is rational above all else, we do not believe G-d works in mysterious ways, and all his ways are of truth. I haven't seen any illogical fallacies and I have a standing bet against all atheists world wide to identify one that doesn't rest on a logical fallacy itself.

If god doesn't fit the fate-weaver persona, then what is he to you? Just a super powerful alien? And atheists have a standing bet on you to prove that this god exists since you carry the burden of proof. If you say, "god exists" we have the right to ask to see, touch, taste, smell, or hear it. Since god cannot be defined in a physical body, there is no proof. Internal justifications in our own minds do not convey proof. "Just because" beliefs don't convey proof, and you're still left with, what I would call a tragedy, of passing these beliefs on to your children. Whether they want to believe it or not.

Again, wrong religion. We believe that homeless in our community have an absolute right to two meals a day and a rough over their heads at night. We do not have an obligation to build a synagogue until other needs are met. In most smaller communities, shul is in the rabbi's basement.

This is wonderful to hear, and it is very considerate, and I hope it's true, but it can still be done without religion. You are still putting the money into building the synagogue which could be spent on a charity. Every day I drive to work, I pass a church with a $10,000 brand new LED sign, with a brick wall built up around it. I know how much it costs because I researched them for my business. We could only afford a $500 one with a wooden frame that I had to build to support it. Any house of worship, is a business, and it sells hope. This church must have been booming because they put in a new parking lot as well as this brand new sign. All of this was done during the 2nd greatest depression the US has seen in centuries. Tell me something isn't wrong with this story.

Self-hatred is actually forbidden. We are commanded to love ourselves because we are commanded to love others as ourselves. You can't love others until you love yourself. If you have done wrong, G-d has provided a way to atone. Make it better and promise yourself you won't do it again. It is not dealing with your issues that cause shame and self-hatred.

Again, this is good to hear, but it can be done without the stigma of religion. While your religion is becoming more and more benign to me, the more I hear about it, it just doesn't make a lot of sense to me. It seems more like a culture than a religion besides your required belief in god, unless you're being disingenuous with me.

Halakha states that if science contradicts what we believe, what we believe is wrong. It is a sin to fool yourself that the world is different. This physical world represents the will of G-d and denying it is denying G-d.

That is incredible. This is one of the few religions that doesn't seem to be in the way of anything else. Thanks for letting me know about your beliefs and I hope we continue this conversation. The reason I addressed this to theists is because it applies to most religions. There is plenty of evidence for how we came to exist, but none for a god that isn't presupposed. I was generalizing in my original post so that I could get a bunch of conversations going. If you believe that your religion is as harmless as you say it is, then that's fine, but your self-censorship of the word "G-d" says otherwise. It has changed the way you would behave if you didn't believe in a god that seems to have a futile purpose. Much like how I now treat the word god as a noun instead of a name since I appreciate grammar as best I can in these long posts. :)