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:320924 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
