Is a "Jew" a race or a religion?
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your thick, VLayHo-ho-ho
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Right, let's discuss this seriously :
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Re: Is a "Jew" a race or a religion?
Not sure what "porkies" means but I assume you think I'm full of shit. I grew up in the NE of America. When I got to college most of my friends were Jews for some reason. I hung with Jews for 20 years. I didn't know any Orthodox types, but I even had rich WASPy friends who proclaimed to be "Jewish by race, but not by religion and Mayflower decedent girls that converted Judaism to satisfy their fiance's parents. Obviously one cannot gain Jewish DNA by converting. That's just stupid. Didn't know the 'mother thing though. So you're telling me that if both your grandparents are Jews, your father is a Jew, but your mother is a gentile - you're a gentile ? Doesn't sound right to me. Time for a cocktail. I'll be back tomorrow.
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Re: Is a "Jew" a race or a religion?
potty wrote:your thick, VLayHo-ho-ho
Believe me, it wasn't my intention to be. Like a dollop of mayonnaise. If I'm not careful I might whip myself up into a frenzy.
There was no sarcasm or malice intended during the making of this post.
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VLayHo-ho-ho wrote: Ethnicity and religion are not the same... are they?
So yes... they can be. A lot of people seem to mistakenly associate ethnicity with "race"... because it's a common indicator. But they're not 100% synonymous in both directions.An ethnicity, or ethnic group, is a socially-defined category of people who identify with each other based on common ancestral, social, cultural, or national experience.
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Re: Is a "Jew" a race or a religion?
If I was born in Argentina, but then spent my childhood and adolescence in Ireland, gaining Irish citizenship, and qualifications from Irish academies, but then chose to follow a Jedi religion, I would consider myself an Irish national of South American ethnicity. Then I find out that my great-grandparents immigrated to Argentina from Germany, making my father Jewish but married my aregintian mother...I'd be a gentile by ethnicity?
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Re: Is a "Jew" a race or a religion?
for what i understand, definitely gentile.
but you could go to israel and figure the thing out.
or discover the other half of your roots there ?
but you could go to israel and figure the thing out.
or discover the other half of your roots there ?
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Re: Is a "Jew" a race or a religion?
Source?wackyjacky wrote:These days science has shown that some have the 'faith gene' and some don't.
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