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From: lynnef@teklabs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Judaism is NOT a race!
Message-ID: <2101@teklabs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jun-83 12:39:47 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 21 12:39:47 1983
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rdin!abs says that Judaism is a religion, not a race.  A few sentences later,
he/she says that both religious Jews and non-religious Jews believe strongly
in Judaism, and would die for it.

If Judaism is a religion, and not a race, how could a non-religious Jew believe
so strongly in his religion that he would die for it????

I have a feeling that rdin!abs just said, more or less, that Judaism is a race
after all....

Glenn Reid
..seismo!uwvax!reid
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In reply to the above -- Judaism is NOT (repeat NOT) a race.  It is most
definitely a religion.  A person who adheres to the Jewish faith can stop
being Jewish, by converting to another religion.  A person CANNOT change their
race by converting to another one!

A better word than non-religious would be non-observant.  I am non-observant --
I don't light the candles on Fridays, and haven't seen the inside of a
synagogue in several months, but I certainly consider myself Jewish.  I
certainly feel very strongly about Judaism (as evidenced by this flame)!


				Lynne Axel Fitzsimmons
				{decvax, ucbvax, ihnss, harpo, zehntel}
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