Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!seismo!uwvax!reid From: reid@uwvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Zionism and Glenn Reid--clarification Message-ID: <944@uwvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 03:19:26 EDT Article-I.D.: uwvax.944 Posted: Thu Jun 23 03:19:26 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 22:45:54 EDT Lines: 24 I spoke hastily in my last submission. I only meant to highlight the apparent contradiction inherent in a "non-religious" person fighting to the death for his religion. I should not have drawn the conclusion that Judaism is therefore a race. Wrong. It is, in many senses, a culture, though. A culture which revolves around (or is built upon) the religion itself. In that sense all Jews can be said to be part of the culture whether or not they are more or less "religious". I think I agree that the Jewish people I have known would die for their culture, family, heritage, whatever it is--not necessarily because of their religious beliefs, however. It is a sense of oneness found in various groups which have been oppressed at one time or another in history. The black culture of today is highly individualized and cohesive in an attempt to "unite" against oppression. Their language and culture underline the differences between them and their [white] oppressors, lest they become lost and trampled underneath. I hope I am better understood now. If not, I will be able to tell from all the heat, and I will try again! Cheers, Glenn