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Sparkly- I wasn’t talking about belief in Hashem. I was talking about belief in the Mitzvos. As I and others keep repeating, someone who denies even a single Mitzvah or any of the other basic tenets of Judaism is an apikorus. Reform ideology is not to believe in Torah Min Hashamayim. I’m not sure what Conservative ideology is regarding Torah M’Sinai, but they certainly say that you don’t have to keep all the Mitzvos. There is a reason why the Gedolim consider Conservative and Reform ideologies to be off the map as opposed to Orthodox ideologies.
Again, there may be people who call themselves Conservative or Reform who aren’t really Conservative or Reform. I am not talking about them – I am talking about the ideology of Conservative and Reform.
Again, if someone wants to keep some Mitzvos and not all, they can be Orthodox and keep some Mitzvos; they don’t have to be Conservative or Reform. That is what the Chilonim and Mesoratim in Israel do (and I think this is the case in other countries as well).