What you meant to say is: "I'm sure many of them think they're a race. But
[according to my parsetree dictionary] they're really not".
But according to WEBSTER's dictionary, they ARE.
According to ALL credible dictionaries, jews ARE a RACE.
John Knight
"Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm sure many of them think they're a race. But they're really not.
>> "John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote in message
> news:xi1m9.91996$S32.6026096 at news2.west.cox.net...> >
> >
> > The problem is that jews are a RACE. Even the Chinese jews attempt to
> link
> > themselves genetically to either Ashkenaz or Esau.
> >
> > It wasn't a case of some Chinaman standing up in one of the 1,600
churches
> > in China one day and proclaiming himself to be a jew--it was
miscegenation
> > between a Chinaman and jews who had travelled to China along the Silk
> Road.
> >
> > Nobody has a need or a desire to adopt the "principles" of the Talmud.
> > Embracing such a screed is a genetic problem.
> >
> > John Knight
> >
> > "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:GANl9.1080$zz2.234473 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > > I'm thinking that you haven't met many chinese people, period.
> > >
> > > There are jews of every race.
> > >
> > > "Lush" <Count.Lushbat at nospam.com> wrote in message
> > > news:ZNJl9.8865$kd3.21344 at news-server.bigpond.net.au...> > > > Don't the Jews lack the prosletising instincts of the Christians?
The
> > two
> > > > are quite different. I have never met nor heard of a chinese Jew.
> > > >
> > > > Lush
> > > >
> > > > "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > > news:d58k9.4082$l44.968907 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > > > > "John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote in message
> > > > > news:746k9.65611$S32.4182275 at news2.west.cox.net...> > > > > >
> > > > > > "Parse Tree" <parsetree at hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > > > > > news:0RPj9.3469$l44.659319 at news20.bellglobal.com...> > > > > > > "John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote in message
> > > > > > > news:0bNj9.60285$S32.3919092 at news2.west.cox.net...> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > "Bob LeChevalier" <lojbab at lojban.org> wrote in message
> > > > > > > > news:v51rougg3ac1qppqf5fc9llgii0hlrtq0s at 4ax.com...> > > > > > > > > <raugust at ptd.net> wrote:
> > > > > > > > > >You see, for the "six million Jews" that were "killed" in
> the
> > > > > > > "holocaust"
> > > > > > > > > >(read my earlier post regarding the real meaning of that
> > word),
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > Words mean what we use them to mean. Just as "gay" no
> longer
> > > > refers
> > > > > > > > > only to how you feel on a bright spring day, holocaust no
> > longer
> > > > > > > > > refers to the inside of a nuclear explosion. Live with
it:
> > the
> > > > > > > > > language changes.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Why don't you live with the definition of RACE? Jews are a
> > RACE.
> > > > > Live
> > > > > > > with
> > > > > > > > it.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Not really. They're just as much a religion as they are a
> 'race'.
> > > In
> > > > > > fact,
> > > > > > > they don't really have a common history or common physical
> traits.
> > > > > > They're
> > > > > > > more easily and properly categorized as a religion.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > So you're saying that jews are a class of people unified by a
> > > community
> > > > of
> > > > > > interests?
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm saying that they're a class of people that are unified by a
> > > religion.
> > > > > They are as much a race as are Christians, or Wiccans.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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