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Originally Posted by takkaria  A Jew is not a Jew unless they consciously get to consider whether they want to be a Jew or not. |
A Talmudic Jew is, by definition, one whose mother was Jewish. To be Jewish is not a religion, nor a set of beliefs. It is an ethnicity. This is why anti-Semitism is a form of
racism, not a theological quibble.
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Originally Posted by takkaria And it all a bit off-topic, but a) is it worth creating a new thread just to finish off this bit of debate? and b) it always happens when people talk about evolution and creationism. |
By the mods' standards, the fact that we're willing to continue the debate makes it on-topic. However, the issue of Dawkins in particular and religion vs. atheism in general is technically tangential to the issue of evolutionism versus creationism. I'd rather move it to another thread, but I'm also not going to do it because I'm in a purely responsive mode on the subject at the moment.