He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
Personal Ignore Policy PIP: I like civil discourse. I will give you all the respect in the world if you respect me. Mouth off to me, or express overt racism, you will be PERMANENTLY Ignore Listed. Zero tolerance. No exceptions. I'll never read a word you write, even if quoted by another, nor respond to you, nor participate in your threads. ... Ignore the shallow. Cherish the thoughtful. Long Live Civil Discourse, Mutual Respect, and Good Debate! ps: Feel free to adopt my PIP. It works well.
Give it the fuck up, Kudzu.
We are not talking about 3000 fucking years ago...or about the ravings of a mythology.
RIGHT NOW...any child of a Jewish woman...is JEW. That is an essential in the Jewish definition of who is a JEsw.
Jesus H. Christ.
Give it up when you have lost.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. Thomas Paine
No, I do not think you are the devil.
The descriptor "atheist" means so many things to so many different people...I just want to know what YOU meant when you used it as a descriptor.
The word most assuredly does not speak for itself, Poli.
I DO NOT "BELIEVE" (which is to say, blindly guess) THAT THERE IS A GOD.
I am not an atheist.
I ALSO DO NOT "BELIEVE" (blindly guess) there are no gods.
I also am not a theist.
Some people who use the descriptor "atheist"...in fact ASSERT THAT THERE ARE NO GODS.
So the word does not speak for itself.
Who is a Jew?
Although the Hebrew Bible defines Jewish identity in patrilineal terms (determined by the identity of the father) the Mishnah states that the offspring of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father is recognized as a Jew, while the offspring of a non-Jewish mother and a Jewish father is considered a non-Jew. This talmudic position became normative in Jewish law.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.myj...l-descent/amp/
The majority view in Karaite Judaism is that Jewish identity can only be transmitted by patrilineal descent They argue that only patrilineal descent can transmit Jewish identity on the grounds that all descent in the Torah went according to the male line. Jewish Tradition Wikipedia
Historically, since the Rabbinic period (post 70 CE), Jewish status was passed down by the mother. This is known as matrilineality. A child of a Jewish mother is Jewish, even if the father is not. Prior to this period, the Bible recognized patrilineal descent, whereby one’s Jewish status was determined by one’s father.
In 1983, the organized Reform Jewish Movement adopted the principal of patrilineal descent. This is a bit of a misnomer. Reform Judaism considers a child of an interfaith couple to be Jewish if one parent is Jewish and the child is raised as a Jew and receives a Jewish education and celebrates appropriate life cycle events, such as receiving a Hebrew name and becoming bar or bat mitzvah. This also assumes that the child is being raised exclusively as a Jew and not practicing another religion.
https://reformjudaism.org/ask-rabbi-...lineal-descent
kudzu (01-16-2019)
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