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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: test for Jewishness
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Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 15:42:39 EDT
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>>Test for Jewishness = Eligibility for the concentration camps

> This statement is a rather negative definition of Jewishness and gives no
> reason for pride in Jewishness.
> 	Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo

Exactly.  The point being:  why let other people define who YOU are?
Am I a Jew when Martillo has deemed it so?  When Nazis have deemed it so?
Am I a Jew because you say I am?  Do I have some obligations imposed on me
because someone else has stated that I am a member of some group without
my input or consideration?

I don't take statements like "You have to do it for your race/religion/family."
very seriously.  Since, so often, such externally imposed obligations are used
as a propagandistic tool to rile you up to fight a bloody conflict for
something you have no part in and don't even believe in.
-- 
Now I've lost my train of thought. I'll have to catch the bus of thought.
			Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr