do you believe that Judaism is a religion or a race?
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It's a religion.  The fact that many Jews share the same apperance is that is not a prosteltyzing religion and it has not spread much outside of its original followers.
775595
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.
495623
Genetically speaking there is no such thing as race...it is a social construct.  Socially, it is a common thing to have parents of 2 "races"...the most important thing to remember is that there is only one race- Human.
979948
At least get your facts straight when you spout your racist nonsense, otherwise you just sound like an idiot.  Jews are 2.2% of the population according to the 2000 census.\n\nhttp://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/tables/06s0071.xls
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That is about my perception as well. As a Jew I cannot fathom how Christianity developed out of Judaism. The Christian god cannot be the same as in Judaism the difference are just to staggering.
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Are you referring to cultural fusion into the American subculture or over all integration of jews as a race and ethnic group?\n\nSince Judaism is a religion not an ethnicity,  I would have to say adaptation into the American sub culture was rather easy because different cultural and ethnic groups merged under the Judaism umbrella but each individual group still can maintain independent identity.  That is the exact mirror of the American cultural state.\n\nOther ethnic and cultural groups tend to be more defined and therefore stand out more but ultimately America was built on immigrants and fusion is guaranteed.
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That is  a very good question and the answer is a little confusing. The problem is that people often get confused between Judiasm and Jews. To be Jewish does NOT mean you follow the Jewish religion, instead it is a group of people. Kind of like just because you are Indian does not mean you are hindu, or if you are arabic it does not mean you are muslim (unless it is the law of your country) \n\nNow before the birth of Christ, the Jewish(reffering to the group of people) did follow the same religion, which can be called the "Jewish" religion, because they where Jew and that was their religion. Now, before Christ was born, as you know from reading the scriptures, their where prophesies about his coming. Some believed and some did not believe he was coming. When Jesus Christ was born he taught many new things and gave new revelations. Thus came Christianity, though if it was called that at the time, I am not sure. Those who did not believe he was the Savior and still live by the ways before Christ and do not follow His new teachings broke off and are today reffered to as "Jewish"\n\nThose who followe Christ are Christians. Those who are Jewish by blood are not neccesarily Jewish by religian, You can be jewish by religion even if you are not Jewish by blood. Jesus was born to Jewish parents and He is how Christianity started. Remember, back then Jewish and Christianity were intertwined and not distinctively seperate.\n\nI know it is confusing. But basically, the coming of Christ and the belief in whet He taught is what seperates the 2 religions.
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Agnostic, I imagine.  Although what you're explaining could be Judaism as well...
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There is nothing wrong with being Jewish. There is nothing wrong with the religion of Judaism. There is nothing wrong with the religions of Islam, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism or any other recognized major religion out there. \n\nIts what people do with those religions that cause the problem. And its how other people of one religion view others of another religion that cause problems. And that discrimination is what is wrong.\n\nIt does seem there is a negative stereotype of the typical Jewish person though - just like there are negative stereotypes of people of every religion. Many people are ignorant whether by poor education or choose to be so - it is those attitudes that are unacceptable.\n\nPeople like to make themselves feel better. They want to feel that whatever group they belong to whether it be race, religion or nationality, is better than the other groups. They want to attribute blame to other groups as the cause of their problems or the worlds problems.\n\nOf course with today's political climate with tensions in the Middle East, its easy for people to say if there were no Jewish people, there wouldn't be the problem. However, that is the wrong view. Once you start with that, you open up a Pandora's box. People can then say that Muslims are all terrrorists or something and should be blamed for all the worlds problems. And you can say Christians are the cause of all the Crusades in the past and in power in the US and like to interfere in the affairs of other sovereign nations and should be blamed for all the worlds problems. Eventually someone will take the idea too far and feel genocide is the answer - Hitler, Slobodan Milosevic in Bosnia, multiple warlords in Africa.
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Hebrews are a race of people. Jewish is a religion. Israeli is a nationality. You can be Jewish but unless you are born of Hebrew descent you can't be a Hebrew. It's like being of Cherokee descent rather than European descent. Kapeesh?
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There have been a few studies done which prove that many Jews do have a common male descendant. I know there was a study which shows that most "Cohen" (priests) do have a common male descendant (Aaron ?)\n\nThe problem with proving that Jews and Arabs are descended from a common male descendant:\n\n(1) Judaism has had many converts over the years. Some entire cultures (one in Africa, one in Asia) actually converted.\n(2) A jew is defined (by jews) as one who has a jewish mother. It has been that way for 2500 years. So one with a jewish mother, but gentile father would be harder to prove via "y" chromosome.\n(3) "Arabs" today are not the same as Arabs in biblical or even in Mohammed's time. Take for instance Egypt. The Egyptians were Copts until Islam. When they converted to Islam, they started speaking Arabic instead of Coptic. So they became Arab ethnicity without actually being of Arab descent.
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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.
666135
Not true.   The Jewish religion believes that Jesus Christ was a great prophet, but not the Son of God.  The Bible says otherwise.
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None of the above it was done by rabbi's. It you read it you will know that Judaism is not from God or of God. The religion of Judaism is a deceiver.
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Although Judaism accepts converts from any race or people, nevertheless, most Jews today are not converts nor descendants of converts.\nThat being the case, most Jews are, in fact, Semetic thus may have a "semetic look".\n\nAs to someone's reference to the Khazars: that was a speculation by a historian in the book "The Thirteenth Tribe" by William Kunstler  (sp?) in that today's Ashkenazi Jews are descendants of converts from the Khazar tribe. Mainstream historians discount this.\n\nThus, this is what I will acknowledge. Jews are both part of a religion (whether they observe Judaism or not) and ethnicity. Judaism itself is a religion.
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Christianity is paganism and has no relation with the original Hebrew religion.\n\nConstantine attempted to invent a universal religion by incorporating Hebrew myths into his pagan religion, but it appears Hebrews would have nothing to do with it.
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Hmm, I wonder... Do 99% of the Jews think of YOU AND YOUR RACE the same way?\n\nOr, are you simply an IGNORANT fellow? Or, are you full of ENVY?? Which is it???\n\nPeace be with you!