Why is it that most people think that Judaism is a race?
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It is more of a culture/religion. Judaism is the religion and Jews are the culture that go with it. They have their own customs as with any other culture or nationality. One thing, you cannot change how you are, but you can worship any way you want.
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I believe it not to be because of science. Science is seen by religious people as antisemitic. Either way, someone has to be wrong. I would rather be right than wrong.
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""Jews" for Christ," also called, Messianic "Jews," are not Jews! \n\nMany people, Christians and some Jews as well, erroneously believe that just as one can be Black and Christian, just as one can be Oriental and Christian, one can also be Jewish and Christian. It is not true. The Jews are not a race. There is no genetic code passed from either mother or father to the child that makes that child a Jew. Even if all, or some, of the genetic code in a child could be proved to be of Jewish Origin, that would not make the child a Jew. Jewish law determines who is a Jew, and Jewish law is quite clear. If a person's mother is a Jew, and that person has not converted to another faith, then that person will be considered fully Jewish, so long as that person wishes to identify solely as a Jew. Although one cannot convert to become a member of a race, one who converts to Judaism does, indeed, become fully a Jew. Similarly, if one converts from Judaism to another faith, one is no longer a Jew.\n\nMessianic "Judaism" is a product of the successful missionizing campaign of such ministries as the "Jews" for Jesus, who try to make it look as though one can be a Jew and a Christian at the same time. BY definition, one who believes in Jesus as their savior is a Christian. One who accepts Jesus as anything other than a man who once lived, but died without doing anything the Real Messiah will do when he gets here (hence the reason for a Second Coming!), is a Christian and no longer a Jew.\n\nThe Orthodox Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, writing for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, the Orthodox Youth Group, in his book The Real Messiah, on page 21 wrote:\n\nThis brings us back to our original question: \nWhat can a Jew lose by embracing Christianity? \n\nThe answer is: Everything. \n\nChristianity negates the fundamentals of Jewish \nfaith, and one who accepts it rejects the very \nessence of Judaism. Even if he continues to keep \nall of the rituals, it is the same as if he \nabandoned Judaism completely. \n\nA Jew who accepts Christianity might call himself \na "Messianic 'Jew,'" but he is no longer a Jew. \nHe can no longer even be counted as part of a \nJewish Congregation.\n\nWe Jews define for ourselves who is and who is not a Jew, and not the Jewish wannabees, and the targets of this newest technique in missionizing Jews. \nAs a matter of fact, the majority of their members were not ever Jewish up until recently, and this is also true about their messianic ""rabbis."" Many of them change their names to something that sounds stereotypically Jewish, in order to better target those they want to convert to Christianity.\n\nAs the success of this newest technique in missionizing the less knowledgeable Jews increased, the percentage of membership of ex-Jews as members of their messianic congregations has also increased, now running about 50-50.\n\nIt is also interesting to note that a large number of people converting TO Judaism have come to real Judaism from having been exposed to Messianic ""Judaism."" \n\nWhat you should expect at a messianic congregation is that all references to Christian theology has been changed to make it sound more Jewish, and therefore more pallatable to their targets. They will only refer to Jesus as 'Yeshua' (which would not have been his name), they will say 'moshiach' instead of 'christ,' they will say 'synagogue' instead of 'church,' and on and on, in keeping with the techniques described in the book Understanding Church Growth by Donald MacGavran, who helped the idea of Indiginous Cultural Evangelism get started. \n\nThe services will sound very Jewish, usually a lot of (mispronounced) Hebrew, and prayers will have been changed to add the Christian theology of Jesus to them, again, to make the service more f
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Zionism is not racism.  It is nothing more than the belief that the Jewish people should have a homeland in their ancient homeland.  A very noble cause (proud to be a Zionist).
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No, being Jewish is not a nationality, because there are Jews from many many nations around the globe. What ties each Jew to other Jews is our religion, our Faith, called Judaism. Had you asked him to show you his passport, it would not have read, 'Jew,' and even if the passport was from Israel, it would not always mean he was a Jew, because Israel has citizens who are Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, whatever.
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He was Jewish and most people wouldn't know a Jewish person if they were standing right in front of them.\n\nI've meet blonde hair blue eyed Jews, most of them blend in with all the other white people. Most do have dark hair though, but not dark skinned. And if they are any at all it's very slight like a tan.
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It goes back to the self/other distinction which I think is engrained into everyone's mind. Somewhere in the bottom of everyone's mind is the old, animalistic belief that they must be forever on guard by attacks from beings which are outside of their species or "pack."  People don't like dealing with uncertainty.  Some find it easier to classify all unknown/unfamiliar things as "enemy," to be feared and despised, than to think about every person or group on a case by case basis. \n\nAlso, most people want to believe that the way they're living is right, and they find it easier to believe it's right if they convince themselves that everyone else is wrong.   Self-doubt can be very hard to deal with. People reinforce this belief by thinking (unconsciously or otherwise) that their own race, culture, religion, etc., is the one which is most "human."  They therefore find other cultures and races to be not valid as members of the human race. This used to be much more pronounced than it is today; as little as a hundred and fifty years ago, well-respected scientists were still trying to decide if blacks or native americans were "true" humans, or if they were a separate species in between human and ape.  Whenever I get depressed by some of the mindless drivel about superior cultures or races today, I remind myself that humans, as a whole, have gotten a *lot* better about this.
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Jews are hated for the actions of few bad Jews: read what this bad jew said:\n "Our race is the master race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considred as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet, and serve us as our slaves." \nMenachem Begin\n\nprime Minstar of Israel
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not all of jews are bad people but most of them have some caracteristics that are not realy nice.for example they are so mean and mostly wicked.moslems beleive after a rang of bad sins god damned them.\nalso they are so selfish and think god has chosen them as highest men in the world.but we all know that man kinde are all the same for god .he created them.god likes people who are better not pay attention to their race.
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Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people with around 15 million followers as of 2006 [1]. It is one of the first recorded monotheistic faiths and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. The values and history of the Jewish people are a major part of the foundation of other Abrahamic religions such as Samaritanism, Bahá'íism, Islam, and Christianity .\n\nJudaism has seldom, if ever, been monolithic in practice, and has not had any centralized authority or binding dogma. Despite this, Judaism in all its variations has remained tightly bound to a number of religious principles, the most important of which is the belief in a single, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent, transcendent God, who created the universe and continues to be involved in its governance. According to Jewish thought, the God who created the world established a covenant with the Jewish people, and revealed his laws and commandments to them in the form of the Torah. The practice of Judaism is devoted to the study and observance of these laws and commandments, as written in the Torah.\n\nJudaism does not fit easily into conventional Western categories, such as religion, ethnicity, or culture, in part because most of its 4,000-year history predates the rise of Western culture, or occurred outside of the West. During this time, Jews have experienced slavery, anarchic and theocratic self-government, conquest, occupation, and exile; they have been in contact with, and have been influenced by ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Persian, and Hellenic cultures, as well as modern movements such as the Enlightenment (see Haskalah) and the rise of nationalism. Thus, Talmud professor Daniel Boyarin has argued that "Jewishness disrupts the very categories of identity, because it is not national, not genealogical, not religious, but all of these, in dialectical tension."\n\nAccording to traditional Judaism and modern scholars, a number of qualities distinguish Judaism from the other religions that existed when it first emerged. One characteristic was monotheism. The significance of this idea, according to critical historian Yehezkal Kaufman, lies in that Judaism holds that God created, and cares about, humankind. In polytheistic religions, humankind is often created by accident, and the gods are primarily concerned with their relations with other gods, not with people.
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The concept of race is just a gimmick thought up by evolutionist to justify feeling superior to some other people.  We are ONE race - HUMAN.  We are all God's children.  Let's start acting like it.
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Just because someone criticizes Israel's policies against Palestine and Israel does not make them anti semite...\nWhen people run out of arguments for supporting Israel's crimes against Palestine and Lebanon,the last resort they have it's to call people anti Semitic...and if this used to work(because the holocaust was still very alive in everyone's mind),people have started to realize that Israel is wrong and criticizing its policy does not make you a racist...
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why would you assume that Jews rule the world?\nno human rules the world, G-D does.\nhowever, people currently being a majority in the world are mostly christians.\nnote, though, that christians are seperated into many groups.\ntherefore, there is no specific group ruling the world.
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"Many evolutionary and social scientists think common race definitions, or any race definitions pertaining to humans, lack taxonomic rigour and validity. They argue that race definitions are imprecise, arbitrary, derived from custom, and that the races observed vary according to the culture examined. They further maintain that race is best understood as a social construct. Other scientists, however, have argued that this position is motivated more by political than scientific reasons."\n\nI'd take the latter opinion in this one.  If you think back to Slave trade and the justification the old governing bodies gave to the use of Africans. That "Negros" were said to be more animal like than human and not to be regarded as men.  I truly believe that the use of the term race is misused to and over used.  It portrays a divide in the mind of the listener every time it's used.  \n\nWe are all of the Human Race and if some kind of intelligent creature from another planet came for a visit and started to categorize do you really think they'd stop to count the almost 200 countries on our planet?  I think not.  We may be split into different subtypes for our genes do differ and so too our health issues and physical abilities (No I'm not gonna waste our time pointing them out). \nWe are very closely related to apes but as far as I've researched we cannot (and should not) procreate with them. \n\n"Groups incapable of producing fertile offspring with each other are universally considered distinct species, and not merely different "races" of the same species."\n\n"Do human races exist?\n\n    * Racial realism\n          o Racial naturalism: races are important biological or natural kinds\n          o Racial constructionism: races are not biological kinds, but they are social constructs\n    * Racial skepticism: race does not exist\n\n\nWhat about subspecies/breed?\n\n    * The terms 'race' and 'subspecies' are often used synonymously, some argue this is the correct definition (Kittles?).\n    * Typically, 'race' is used for humans and 'subspecies' or 'breed' for non-humans.\n    * When they are distinguished, 'race' is generally a lower level category than 'subspecies'."\n\nIf the above statement is true and people nonchalantly calling my parents are two different races are truthsayers too, then I (and millions if not billions) of other could never have been born.   \nWell the statement is true but obviously there is no such thing as "mixed-race" only mixed heritage or background.  \n\nI love having multiple heritages to draw from.  Makes me feel like more of a person and not just a number.  Especially when filling out those equal opportunity forms and still, after all these years, can't find a box to tick.\n\nIn short; don't listen to the hype about the word "race". \nIt's not meant to be used in the same way as when we talk about other earthlings (animals), like the word "breed".  But people do use it.  Maybe someday, like certain words that are now considered heinous, abusive and or simply incorrect, "race" will take a back seat and culture and heritage will take their rightful usage.
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Every half of century of so. . there is one race that sticks out from the rest and gets the charge for worst race.  It was white ppl for what they did to slaves.. it was germans for what they did to the jews and so on and so forth right now its the muslism... in another few years it will be someone else.. that's just how it seems to me that it works.  dont know who's gonna be next but it gets worst and worst.
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Semites are middle eastern people and include Arabs and Israelis.  The Jews in America kind of co-opted the term so they could accuse people of picking on them.  One stupid girl reporter from the US actually asked Anwar Saddat if he was "anti-Semitic".  Pres. Saddat told her that would be foolish of him since he was a Semite.
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Some peoples are borow-minded or tink like peoples in 15-17 century who divised the world by races... Sometime people don't find emselfes qualities so they try to persuade everyone their race is the best for keep confience in oneself. The are certainly scared that people could find them ''weak'' or stuff so they say: ''Ah! I'm white/black so I'm the best'', non-sense argument.