Not in the eyes of science...
Again, people can gloss themselves however they like, but from any reasonable perspective, Jewish is based on religion.
Atheistic Semites are not Jewish by any reasonable standard...and to allow a small group (the Orthodox Jews are even a smaller group) to set the terminology is not terribly sane.
If Muslims did something similar how would we act?
We all know all Muslims are not Arabs, and not all Arabs are Muslims...but somehow all Jewish people are genetically linked and Jewish designation has nothing to do with religion of Judaism?
It is inconsistent, logically.
Why the atheists like the one below would even reference people who try to follow the law of Moses, who try to be good people as being the same as they are is lunacy...
We are born with what we are born with, we are descended genetically from our ancestors, but to put that before what we decide to do, what we decide to think, is primitive and tribal.
Early Americans had their fill of monarchy, and pomp and ego of those who were "royal" based on blood lines.
America wasn't about blood lines, America was about what the person made of their life...
Americans would do well to crush this stupidity of allowing a small group to dominate the conversation, especially when it has to do with interpretations of religion.
America is best when it is secular in worldly matters, and religious in spiritual matters...spiritual matters being private and not dealing with worldly matters.
All good Jews follow the law of Moses, just like all good Christians follow the path of Jesus Christ...
Say some lunatic came out with some crazy interpretation of the Bible, claiming that if someone's mother was a Christian, that automatically made that person a Christian...even if they denounced Jesus Christ.
We would laugh, and think such a person daft...
Again, people can gloss themselves however they like, but from any reasonable perspective, Jewish is based on religion.
Atheistic Semites are not Jewish by any reasonable standard...and to allow a small group (the Orthodox Jews are even a smaller group) to set the terminology is not terribly sane.
If Muslims did something similar how would we act?
We all know all Muslims are not Arabs, and not all Arabs are Muslims...but somehow all Jewish people are genetically linked and Jewish designation has nothing to do with religion of Judaism?
It is inconsistent, logically.
Why the atheists like the one below would even reference people who try to follow the law of Moses, who try to be good people as being the same as they are is lunacy...
We are born with what we are born with, we are descended genetically from our ancestors, but to put that before what we decide to do, what we decide to think, is primitive and tribal.
Early Americans had their fill of monarchy, and pomp and ego of those who were "royal" based on blood lines.
America wasn't about blood lines, America was about what the person made of their life...
Americans would do well to crush this stupidity of allowing a small group to dominate the conversation, especially when it has to do with interpretations of religion.
America is best when it is secular in worldly matters, and religious in spiritual matters...spiritual matters being private and not dealing with worldly matters.
All good Jews follow the law of Moses, just like all good Christians follow the path of Jesus Christ...
Say some lunatic came out with some crazy interpretation of the Bible, claiming that if someone's mother was a Christian, that automatically made that person a Christian...even if they denounced Jesus Christ.
We would laugh, and think such a person daft...
Quote from a_person:
LOL, it just goes to show the ignorance of the antisemitic uber-leftist fringe I was talking about in my previous post:
a person born to a Jewish mother who is an atheist and never practices the Jewish religion is still a Jew, even in the eyes of the ultra-Orthodox.
And guess what, it is what it is, it's the definition of being a jew and no one on the planet gives a shit what you think about it and whether you agree.