Maybe I just do not know enough about the situation, but to me being Jewish does not make you an Israeli.
In my mind, Jewish = follows Judaism, Israeli == citizen of Israel - ( and most likely Jewish ) On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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:320935 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
