wha..? serious question.
italians are catholic so jewish poeple are jewish?
Jewish is a race.
Judaism is a religion.
Ta - daa!
Then I suppose you can have a Jewish Muslim. No wonder there's always explosions over in that part of the world. It's from matter/antimatter collisions!
shareRight you are Andy King!
shareAnd yet people will continue to fight about which end you should crack an egg?!
shareOr whether a roll of toilet paper should be hung on the inside (so it dispenses close to the wall) or on the outside (the way normal people like me do it).
shareOutside! Death to the the non-believers!
See, organised religion, how silly it looks in this context.
NB This in no way constitutes as criticism of God fearing people, just the ones that use it for their own gain.
The worst current offenders
Peter Popoff - even after being exposed by The Amazing Randi, is still at it to this very day. Miracle water indeed.
Mike Murdock - Always asking for money. He calls it a "seed."
Joel Osteen - The Tony Robbins of religion.
Both, right?
shareThough Catholicism is the dominant religion in Italy, not everyone adheres to it. My father is from Italy and isn't religious at all.
sharereligion has not made my life better or worse, the church is a good institution that promotes goodness though.....but religion has always been a huge source of political problems note Martin Luther and the reformation.
shareA Jewish female friend of mine once told me to be Jewish your mother has to be Jewish.
shareMatrilineal descent has long been a tradition. My guess is because before the days of DNA this was the only way to be 100% sure. But this article suggests otherwise https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/ask-the-expert-matrilineal-descent/
However, anyone who wants to can convert to Judaism.
Hasidic Orthodox Jews (or at least some of them) oppose marrying converts.
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