"John Knight" <jwknight at polbox.com> wrote in message
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>> "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.