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Are Jews a race or ethnicity?
Wednesday, 22-Oct-14 22:07:26 UTC from web-
@matthew Both. A race is "each of the major divisions of humankind, having distinct physical characteristics." and an ethnicity is "the fact or state of belonging to a social group that has a common national or cultural tradition."
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@ceruleanspark But isn't Judaism a religion? So if a Jew became an Atheist would they still be Jewish? Have I created a paradox by saying this?
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@matthew A converted jew belongs to the religious group but not to the race or ethnicity.
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@righteousnarwhal Can a Jew unconvert or is it like a Catholic marriage?
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@matthew You can leave a religion if you want, regardless of what church oficials say.
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@righteousnarwhal Religion is a hard thing to understand
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@matthew Somewhat. It just requires, like any topic, a bit of study.
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