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- i_was-7
- what's this got to do with religion?fadein11
- apologies for 'signalling'fadein11
- i_was, this isn’t a religion thing. It’s a guy being an asshole. I get you have a beef with Muslims but at least try to be relevantGnash
- he's a troll and only here to incite.fadein11
- Should I label US highschool shooters Christian attacks?monospaced
- i_was you're right! He shouts "ALUHA AKBAR!!" as he thwacks her car.
Not Muslim, just cunt Van DriverProjectile - lol at her reaction though. good girl.Nairn
- That is very normal here in the west.. Its the thanks for we got all that shit up here!Bindegal
- PhanLo2
- Stardust_niko
- Though some of us are indeed “butt dust”_niko
- https://www.youtube.…PhanLo
- Bindegal0
- they believed in burning bushfuturefood
- Thanks, BennnNBQ00
- A third of victims in witch hunts were men and children.i_monk
- _niko-2
Question for our Jewish friends.
Can you be Jewish without being religious? It's been said that "Jew" isn't an ethnicity or a culture but a religion.
But take it away and what are you then? If you live in Israel, I suppose you can be Israeli, but for the diaspora who hasn't lived in Israel for generations can you not practice or adhere to Judaism and still be Jewish?
I say that because Jewish people tend to have strong family, cultural and historical bonds, a strong Jewish "Identity" that have kept them going through the centuries, so I guess I'm asking if you are encouraged to be religious in order to belong.
- oh and happy Hanukkah :)_niko
- I'm not Jewish, but my father was. I don't associate as Jewish, so when someone says I am because my dad was, it kinda bothers me.monospaced
- Not that being Jewish bothers me, but the assumption, or assertion, is what gets me. I was not taught anything religious, so it actually confuses me too.monospaced
- According to Talmud, nodrgs
- question level: things i asked jewish mates when i was 13, in ireland.kingsteven
- It shows up in DNA tests. I'm 50% Jewish with mostly scottish/norwegian taking up the other half12xu
- Have plenty of culturally Jewish friends who are non-religious too... think Seinfeld12xu
- Most ideas about Jewish cultural identity in the US are shaped by the Ashkenazi in NYC. There are other groups of course, just not as influential12xu
- snarkiness level: things i said when i was 10 to prove how smart i was._niko
- David Cross had a great bit about this... can't find it though.ben_
- yeah 12xu, it is the DNA, .2% of the world population but 20% of nobel winners, 40% of oscar winning directors and 60% of chess champions_niko
- so them not being practising Jews or religious doesn't' make them any less Jewish is my point I think._niko
- the CBC just released an interesting doc that may answer some of my questions:
https://gem.cbc.ca/m…_niko - https://gem.cbc.ca/m…_niko
- @niko, regardless of what you think, if someone doesn’t identify with Judaism or practice it you can’t just say they are. That’s fucking racist AF.monospaced
- I don’t know the first thing about Judaism. If you tried telling me I’m Jewish I’d probably consider you a pompous ignorant fuck.monospaced
- Because it’s a religion. It’s nothing more.monospaced
- yeah mono for sure, but there's got to be something tying you back to your ancestors. If you look at ancient peoples, Persians are Muslims but they still consid_niko
- themselves Persians, Greeks are christians but they consider themselves Greeks first and foremost, they are ethnically or culturally Greeks or Persians, so if_niko
- I was to refer to you as jewish, it's for lack of a better ethnic/cultural term not that i'm trying to say you're religious. I guess that's the issue_niko
- because pretty much every jewish family that I know, isn't religious, but they have a strong "Jewish" identity._niko
- and mono my intention isn't to label anyone, living in a multicultural city, you learn to respect and love one another and respecting self-identity is part of i_niko
- Also your little freak out pretty much sealed that I’ll now refer to you as mono, my little Jewish qbn friend lol_niko
- Can you be Jewish without being religious? From a biblical perspective, and by biblical I mean rabbinical, the whole concept of "non-religious Jew" doesn't makecherub
- sense. It's like saying "dry water" or "cold fire." Because to discard the religious element and keep everything else is the opposite of what Judaism is teachescherub
- If you do that, what you are left with is zionism. So yes the biblical perspective says no(mostly), but IRL isn't based on the bible. Colloquial use of "Jewish"cherub
- is usually describing "culturally Jewish." Look up Theodore Herzl on wikipedia, and see how he transformed most Jews on this planet to Zionists.cherub
- Judaism isn’t ethnicity. It’s a belief system. If your ancestors were Muslim I wouldn’t be an arrogant and insist it’s your ethnicity. Cmon.monospaced
- The ONLY reason people call it ethnicity is because they are insanely ignorant and can’t look past racist urges to label people as other.monospaced
- If someone doesn’t believe in or follow Judaic teachings, then they aren’t Jewish. It’s as simple as that.monospaced
- Just because they came from one place once and congregated somewhere doesn’t make a race or ethnicity.monospaced
- At one point a huge amount of Jews were Russian. But most Russians aren’t Jewish. That’s because Russian isn’t a fucking race.monospaced
- Middle eastern Jews are middle eastern. They aren’t the same ethnicity as Russian Jews. The very implication is beyond ignorant. Sounds like 30s Germany in heremonospaced
- But even the Russian or European Jews were descendants of Israelites as emetic peoples, so they’re not ethnically or culturally Russian necessarily._niko
- Also don’t know why your flying off the handle with racist accusations, I’m asking out of a place of respect and simple curiosity_niko
- Thanks cherub for your input :)_niko
- It’s not a simple question it turns out:
https://www.google.c…_niko - One clue is the word itself. I had to write a paper on this subject at Uni. Here is what I found. We can thank the French-for the modern word "Jew" comes fromcherub
- their version (juiu) of the Hebrew word yĕhūḏāh which along with yĕhūḏī means "Judah" and "(geographical citizen) of Judah" respectively. They are both nouns,cherub
- one is the name of one of the 12 tribes of Jacob(later renamed Israel), and the other is an inhabitant or I guess citizen of Judah. We have come in modern timescherub
- to extend the 2nd one past the usage of a noun when we say in English "Jewish" because we are describing something as having certain qualities, and clearly thatcherub
- goes beyond the meaning of yĕhūḏī in the bible which just means "inhabitant of the land of Judah." Final note: I don't remember where I read it but at one pointcherub
- it was foretold to Judah that all the other tribes would call themselves by his name. Which later came true. To this day, the descendants of Jacob/Israelcherub
- call themselves Jews, after his name.cherub
- And if some of them don’t associate with what they see as purely a meaningless belief system, they are no longer Jews regardless of what some dude said Long agomonospaced
- as a half jew i can tell you this: if you're born jewsih (your mom is jewish) you're jewish according to the halakha. no escaping that.renderedred
- According to some irrelevant, made up opinion of some dudes thousands of years ago. Hilarious hogwash. What a freakin' joke.monospaced
- of course mono, but that's how it works ;)renderedred
- i am not religious, still i was and am regraded as jewish both by jews and gentiles alike.renderedred
- just because someone wrote it doesn't mean that's how it works. Biology and theology are different.monospaced
- sted0
- son_dey-5
They consider themselves “mature,” so that no one can be compared with them in the greatness of their gnosis, not even if you mention Peter or Paul or any of the other apostles... . They imagine that they themselves have discovered more than the apostles, and that the apostles preached the gospel still under the influence of Jewish opinions, but that they themselves are wiser and more intelligent than the apostles.
- Who?monospaced
- Did they kick you off tumblr, or something?Gnash
- Questions anyone?son_dey
- Why, so you can also copy-paste an answer? No thanksGnash
- I asked a question. Who are you talking about?monospaced
- grafician0
- it's just a topic, like any othermonospaced
- I guess, but this and others makes qbn more like reddit and less like a designer forum, just sayin...grafician
- ooohhh kaaaay thenmonospaced
- Bindegal-6
- Bindegal-1
- PhanLo0
Lol. Are you ready? Somethings about to bust!
Before speaking in tongues and ranting about government conspiracies...
-- wow took a look at the comments, wtf!renderedred
- Yeah they're pretty wild.PhanLo
- PhanLo1
- wow! sick cunts!renderedred
- Yup. Not that long ago either.mort_
- Americans, this is why the church should never be a part of the state.PhanLo
- I have living relatives that were in those homes. The trauma has never left them.PhanLo
- Between this and the widespread systematic rape of young boys by Catholic priests, and the Vatican level cover up...mort_
- PhanLo2
The Catholic Society of Boston, after an Irish child is adopted to the US. "It is only through the fees we received from adoptive couples like you, that we are able to carry on our work". But report finds no evidence of money for adoptions.
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The church would tell the mothers that the baby was dead and sell the child for a profit.
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- imbecile2
- Jews don't like hoummous?Nairn
- adam sandler has different views but this chart is just as insane as most religions listed. i'm just happy i can't afford to be a scientologistimbecile
- Sure they do. Just not as much as Muslims. Hehe.monospaced
- Pretty sure all Muslims love bacon, they've just never tried itdrgs
- haha drgsNairn
- I bought a bacon and egg roll from a muslim-run cafe near where I live on the way in this morning. It was clear he's never tasted bacon. Terrible.Nairn
- I should've gone to the Greek guy two doors down, who I usually buy from. Was taken in by the cheaper offer. Never again.Nairn
- Nairn0
Not religion, culture. But sorta religion, so in this thread.
"Covid: 400-person wedding party in Stamford Hill broken up by police" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-en…
This is about 10 minutes walk from my studio here.
Selfish idiots.
- unbelievable, how can they claim not to have known?fadein11
- "principal Rabbi Avrahom Pinter died in April after contracting coronavirus"fadein11
- They're idiots. They live in a bubble.Nairn
- let them all dieutopian
- oooh these guys :)renderedred