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| Reply To: | The philosophy, work & influences of Noam Chomsky |
| Date: | Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:27:10 EST |
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In a message dated 4/5/2002 2:44:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask]
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> Since a person can not be both a Jew and a Catholic or both a Jew and a
> Muslim, if a person is a Jew, his Jewishness, whatever it is, is based
> on the Jewish religion, regardless of whether he believes in God and
> goes to synagogue. Whatever Jewish means, if you remove all references
> to the Jewish religion from its meaning, it means nothing.
>
> martin
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Incidentally, there are Jewish Buddhists, Buddhist Catholics, and Christian
Muslims. I know someone in each of these categories. I am amazed at how
pervasive these essentialist doctrines are.
-- David
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