Quote (Goomshill @ Aug 6 2024 11:25am)
Christians and Muslims did not spend the last few thousand years endogamous and spurning converts, they did quite the opposite. There is no Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist race, but there is most certainly a Jewish race, with the two primary branches of Ashkenazi and Sephardic, and also the Mizrahi and whatever minor distinctions besides. You are comparing apples and oranges- Jewish ancestry is easily traceable by genetics.
they're called the tribe for a reason
You're wrong.
If you were raised in a family that did not indoctrinate you into any religion. Then by the time you reached the age where you could be responsible to make your own decision, yes you could choose your own religion. Based upon honest study.
If you're a child and your mother is jewish, you're jewish. And you are raised jewish. So from the time that you are a little baby you are taught to be jewish. You don't have a choice.
Jewish is not a race. So is it true that if you're born of a jewish mother. You're a jew whether you want to be or not? No
You're a jew because you're taught to be a jew from the time you're born.
Same with Catholics. From the time you're born you're required to go to catechism. It's brainwashing.
What is teaching a little jewish child whether he wants to be or not from the time he is born till he grows up. It's brainwashing.
What is it when your parents take you to the baptist church from the time that you're a baby and require you to go to bible school. And teach you all of these things from the time that you're that small and can't make a conscious decision. It's brainwashing.
Whether that is right depends on your view point. Personally I think it's wrong everyone should be able to make a choice based on honest investigation and find out what is right to them. Now a really devout christian would tell me I'm wrong. a really devout jew would tell me the same thing. same with any devout religious person.
This is done to make sure that the religion survives, prospers and grows.
This post was edited by Mondain on Aug 6 2024 05:41am