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From: yiri@ucf-cs.UUCP (Yirmiyahu BenDavid)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Perlow on conversion
Message-ID: <1761@ucf-cs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Nov-84 08:14:30 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 26 08:14:30 1984
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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Subject: Re: conversion to Christianity

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>>	i am seriously thinking of converting from Judaism to 
>> Christianity, for many reasons...

So did the composer Felix Mendelsohn, but who remembers him as Felix
Bartholdy?  The Nazis still banned his music.  You may adopt all the
beliefs and rituals of the Goyim, but Jewish you can't convert from--
it's something you are.  Have fun, and remember: they'll come for you
anyway.

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Yiri responds:
Over the centuries, persecutions, fear of life and discrimination which
kept Jews from earning the living they deserved has prompted many of the
weaker and more apostate Jews to convert, usually for monetary and
social reasons. To have any meaning you must show at least 3 things:
1. Mendelsohn was an observant Jew just prior to his conversion
2. Mendelsohn was observant of orthodox Judaism at that time
3. Mendelsohn converted for religious, not other reasons.

I don't know where you get your information that you cannot convert from
Judasim but you are all wet! Semitic is something racial. Being a Jew,
however, is more that being semitic. Tell us why you have taken such a
position on converting from Judaism. The fact that an insane man would
have continued to regard you as Jewish is hardly relevant.
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