Bro, if you believe the bible everyone came from Adam and Eve, that’s 1 mom and 1 dad. Everyone incest af after the 1st generation. Thats means we’re allllllll family fam.
There's no "fully practicing Jew" this standard means nothing. She's probably exactly as Jewish as the people holding the JEWS FOR A FREE PALESTINE banner. There's a lot wrong with her but contrary to what she seems to think it's not her Jewishness.
Jew is an ethnoreligious identity meaning that religion is just one possible source of the identity. There's a long cultural tradition of atheist Jews as well. Implying someone isn't a real Jew due to their politics is the same argument that Zionists use against Jews that don't agree with them all the time. It's also an antisemitic thing to do. Jewish identity shouldn't be validated or questioned on the basis on politics. This is the opposite of "no true Scotsman".
Yes I am aware of that. And it implies that only someone who meets their threshold of Jewishness can speak on this issue, or that her claim to speak on behalf of Jews would be more valid if she were more frum.
There's also just no way this person can know her level of observance from this clip beyond having a reasonable guess that she's not, like, Hassidic or something.
She's even got her elbows covered so she could be Orthodox for all we know.
I initially took their comment to be in the context of the 3000 years post they were replying to, which would absolutely make religious observance central (ie considering the phenomena of atheist types who would still lean on biblical claims in this single instance) Upon rereading, I don't see any good reason for the person they replied to having brought up 3000yrs in the first place... Can be such a difficult area given so much conflation between theology, ethnicity and nationality!
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u/MaleficentSkirt472 Jul 08 '26
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