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For someone who claims to know a whole lot about Judaism, you don't seem to understand the basic theology. Judaism largely holds that god actually kills bad people. This is reflected in the flood and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God doesn't judge people when they die and stay out of their lives to respect free will, he straight up murders evildoers. (As an aside, the sin of the two cities was their cruelty to strangers and extravagant abuse of their wealth, not homosexuality.)
Every year on Yom Kippur, god decides if you've been good enough to survive the coming year. You spend the week beforehand praying and repenting and confessing sins (this is where Christianity appropriated confession from) so that god will write you into the book of life and you get to keep living. There's even a prayer talking about god deciding how each person will die. Clearly, this god does not respect free will very much. But you can temper god's harsh justice by doing good deeds, being charitable, and earnestly praying for forgiveness. This is a weird anachronism in Reform Judaism (and sometimes in Conservative Judaism, a less reformed, more middle of the road denomination), where god is a much nicer person every other part of the year.
Now, most modern Jews don't really believe this literally, as we are all quite capable of observing the world around us and seeing that a person's lifespan has little to do with their morality. Reform Judaism (the largest denomination of Judaism in the United States) takes a much more vague and touchy-feely approach to god, portraying him as just an abstract force for good. God loves all, god forgives all. But god doesn't really intervene anymore. In fact, a lot of Judaism involves complaining about how marginalized Jews are in the world and being grateful to god for at least stopping all of the times when other people have tried to completely wipe us out. This is why the Holocaust shook the faith of so many Jews. In reality, it was merely Christians murdering Jews (and many others) en masse. But the idea that god could allow such a horrific genocide, wiping entire family trees out and not protecting them from that cruelty. Judaism is based on god choosing, loving, and protecting this group of people. Protecting Jews from the violence of the world is a big theme in Judaism, and god dropped the ball pretty hard in the 1930s and 40s. Reform Judaism is, I imagine, somewhat of an attempt to reconcile this by adopting the modern view of a god that is detached from our world. This is a popular god with posters on this forum. The problem, of course, is when belief in that god ends up giving support to people like you, who think that god actually wants us to enact horrific cruelties on his behalf.
Now, back to Jewish theology. One big thing that you seem not to understand about Judaism is that it doesn't really include an afterlife. It has bits and pieces here and there, but it's not a central focus of the religion at all, not the way it is for Christianity and Islam (because they appropriated the rich afterlife from Greek and Roman myths). You don't really go anywhere when you die. Sure, there's some Kabbalah stuff that deals with Sheol and the like, but that's pretty fringe. Judaism is much more focused on the here and now, and not eternal souls. This is not merely with Reform Judaism, but basically all of it. God's judgment is happening now, and will happen when the messiah comes. It doesn't happen when you die. And that judgement involves our lives here, not our afterlives. Evil people, as you put it, don't go anywhere. No one does. There's even notions that everyone will come back to life when the messiah comes and god basically conquers the world and rules it like a king (one of the more important bits in the story that Jesus didn't do).
Of course, those are just beliefs and they are, of course, nonsense. And it's funny that you ask for evidence, since there obviously isn't any, since there are no gods to produce such evidence. You are one of the former people I referred to in my first post. You worship a very sad and cynical god. Maybe if the much fluffier Reform Jewish god was the most popular one, then god would have a much better reputation. Instead, it's the evil one that you like, who basically only puts us here on earth to make our lives miserable so that he can separate out people who care more about their fellow human beings than about being his servants, and then throw them into a big fire while he surrounds himself with sycophants on a cloud.
For someone who claims to know a whole lot about Judaism, you don't seem to understand the basic theology. Judaism largely holds that god actually kills bad people. This is reflected in the flood and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. God doesn't judge people when they die and stay out of their lives to respect free will, he straight up murders evildoers. (As an aside, the sin of the two cities was their cruelty to strangers and extravagant abuse of their wealth, not homosexuality.)
Every year on Yom Kippur, god decides if you've been good enough to survive the coming year. You spend the week beforehand praying and repenting and confessing sins (this is where Christianity appropriated confession from) so that god will write you into the book of life and you get to keep living. There's even a prayer talking about god deciding how each person will die. Clearly, this god does not respect free will very much. But you can temper god's harsh justice by doing good deeds, being charitable, and earnestly praying for forgiveness. This is a weird anachronism in Reform Judaism (and sometimes in Conservative Judaism, a less reformed, more middle of the road denomination), where god is a much nicer person every other part of the year.
Now, most modern Jews don't really believe this literally, as we are all quite capable of observing the world around us and seeing that a person's lifespan has little to do with their morality. Reform Judaism (the largest denomination of Judaism in the United States) takes a much more vague and touchy-feely approach to god, portraying him as just an abstract force for good. God loves all, god forgives all. But god doesn't really intervene anymore. In fact, a lot of Judaism involves complaining about how marginalized Jews are in the world and being grateful to god for at least stopping all of the times when other people have tried to completely wipe us out. This is why the Holocaust shook the faith of so many Jews. In reality, it was merely Christians murdering Jews (and many others) en masse. But the idea that god could allow such a horrific genocide, wiping entire family trees out and not protecting them from that cruelty. Judaism is based on god choosing, loving, and protecting this group of people. Protecting Jews from the violence of the world is a big theme in Judaism, and god dropped the ball pretty hard in the 1930s and 40s. Reform Judaism is, I imagine, somewhat of an attempt to reconcile this by adopting the modern view of a god that is detached from our world. This is a popular god with posters on this forum. The problem, of course, is when belief in that god ends up giving support to people like you, who think that god actually wants us to enact horrific cruelties on his behalf.
Now, back to Jewish theology. One big thing that you seem not to understand about Judaism is that it doesn't really include an afterlife. It has bits and pieces here and there, but it's not a central focus of the religion at all, not the way it is for Christianity and Islam (because they appropriated the rich afterlife from Greek and Roman myths). You don't really go anywhere when you die. Sure, there's some Kabbalah stuff that deals with Sheol and the like, but that's pretty fringe. Judaism is much more focused on the here and now, and not eternal souls. This is not merely with Reform Judaism, but basically all of it. God's judgment is happening now, and will happen when the messiah comes. It doesn't happen when you die. And that judgement involves our lives here, not our afterlives. Evil people, as you put it, don't go anywhere. No one does. There's even notions that everyone will come back to life when the messiah comes and god basically conquers the world and rules it like a king (one of the more important bits in the story that Jesus didn't do).
Of course, those are just beliefs and they are, of course, nonsense. And it's funny that you ask for evidence, since there obviously isn't any, since there are no gods to produce such evidence. You are one of the former people I referred to in my first post. You worship a very sad and cynical god. Maybe if the much fluffier Reform Jewish god was the most popular one, then god would have a much better reputation. Instead, it's the evil one that you like, who basically only puts us here on earth to make our lives miserable so that he can separate out people who care more about their fellow human beings than about being his servants, and then throw them into a big fire while he surrounds himself with sycophants on a cloud.
