But Irish can also be Protestant and still be Irish... -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:25 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Israel attacks and kills peace activists in international waters.
I can agree that 'Jewishness' may transcend religious belief, but would disagree that it is more of a cultural thing than other 'religions' - two words come to mind to help support that 'Irish Catholic' :D On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > With "Jewishness" ( for lack of a better term if that is even a proper > word), it transcends religious belief as it is even more of a cultural thing > than being Catholic or Baptist. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:08 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: Israel attacks and kills peace activists in international > waters. > > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Eric Roberts > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Actually I had stated that more than a few times...most recently in a >> discussion about genealogy. I am not religiously Jewish...I am Pagan. My >> family is of Jewish descent and if you go by Jewish law, because my >> grandmother was Jewish, which makes my mother Jewish, that makes me > Jewish. >> Being anti-Israel has nothing to do with being anti-Semitic. As I have >> posted before, there are large quantities of Jews who are not pro-Israel. >> Calling someone anti-Semitic for being anti-Israeli is a straw man and a >> logical fallacy. > > Yea, my bad, used the wrong (really wrong) word there. > > In my mind, if you do not practice a particular religion, you really > have no right to give yourself that label, and I understand what you > said about Jewish Law, but you do not practice Judaism, so its a bit > misleading to label yourself as being 'Jewish' - especially when those > 'laws' are for a religion that you willingly chose not to practice. > > I have been baptized, confirmed, and married in a Catholic church, > but, I do not consider myself a Catholic because I am not a practicing > Catholic. When people ask, I tell them 'I was raised Catholic', but I > would never make a statement like 'I am Catholic' when I feel it helps > my argument and then hope no one calls me on it. > > > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can > wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris > > http://xkcd.com/3 > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:320928 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
