On 9 Jun 2003 at 20:29, Erik Reuter wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 01:15:50AM +0100, Andrew Crystall wrote: > > Judaism is both a people and a religion. > > A people generally means those living in a certain area or those born > of certain people. In as much as Judaism is a religion and in the > context I was discussing, it is not a people because the fact that you > live in an area or are born of someone Jewish does not mean that you > choose to practice Judaism.
If your mother is Jewish, YOU ARE JEWISH. No two ways about it. > This is really a silly semantic argument, because I think you know > what I meant. If you want to call someone Jewish who doesn't choose to > associate themselves with the religious aspects of Judaism, fine. But > that wasn't a group I was referring to. Judaism is a LOT more than a religion. It is also a people, a culture and an idelogy (Zionism). Different Jews are involved in different aspects of Judaism - just because a Jew is not religious does not make them any less a Jew. There are other examples like the Druze. So sorry, I have to utterly disagree with you. It's not semantics at all. I'd say the *majority* of the students who go to the local JSoc (Jewish Society) events aren't really religious, in fact. But they consider themselves Jews. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
