Parse Tree wrote:
> "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.
I think the race in question (ie the racial stock of most followers of
the Jewish faith) would be Hebrew. I could be wrong...
R.
