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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: sex
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Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 22:51:19 EDT
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> I believe my position is reasonable.  Given that the  Jewish community
> is not isolated from the non-Jewish population in the USA, if a person
> is  not  acting in   a  recognizably Jewish  fashion,   he  should  be
> considered non-Jewish. [MARTILLO]

"Recognizably Jewish" by your standards?  Why not by theirs?  Aren't they
Jews?  No, of course not, you excluded them a priori so as to render their
opinions of what Jewishness might be invalid.

This sounds an awful lot like people trying to claim that certain acts
are "against nature".  Are human beings a part of nature?  Do some of us
do those things?  Thus, how can they be considered against nature?
Same thing here.  Are Jews behaving in certain ways and doing certain things?
If so, how can you arbitrarily define such things as "not recognizably Jewish"?
-- 
"There!  I've run rings 'round you logically!"
"Oh, intercourse the penguin!"			Rich Rosen    ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr