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Originally Posted by Livia
I am a little insulted that you think a trawl through Wikipedia allows you to question my faith or my grasp upon it.
You cannot cherry-pick bits and pieces from my faith and post them to strengthen your point when you have no grasp on the religion as a whole. Maybe if religious education was taught properly in schools, we would all be more understanding of each other's faiths and more respectful of other people's beliefs.
Most Jews I know - and that's quite a lot - have been brought up instructed in the religion but with free will to question and to choose. Not all of my family go to synagogue, some never go apart from weddings much like a large majority of people who would describe themselves as Christians. Many of us married outside the religion and our family is made up of more than one faith. Strangely to some perhaps, faith has never caused any kind of turmoil in our family. I do not question your disbelief in God, that is your belief and I have to assume it's something you've thought about. I am not asking you to be a Jew, I'm asking you to allow me to be one without ridicule.
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What you mean is your a jew by tradition but not by religion.
Whatever it is its not religion. I am talking about the religion.
The religion that mutilates children, for example.