dianaiad
Well-Known Member
The whole concept of "Messianic Jews" is redundant. So to complete my point here, your reiteration that being a Jew is only true by matrilineal denominations, is feeding right back into hateful regime of "religious wars" where everyone is supposedly divided, and nobody is allowed to have access to God except those in some kind of monarchial "royal gene pool".
If that is what you are accusing me of..hate crimes and antisemitic attitudes, knock it off.
If you are accusing me of claiming that 'only Jews" or "only I' have access to God...knock that off, too. For crying out loud, the JEWS don't believe that!
As it happens, when a certain group of people can be identified through the diseases that they have that others don't...like, oh, Tay Sachs...and when certain tribes in Africa can be genetically identified with their Jewish ancestors, etc., then 'being Jewish" is MORE than "just a " sect of Judeo-Christian belief systems.
To fail to acknowledge this is to do a grave disservice to everybody involved. The Jewish people have gone through too much, survived too much, accomplished too much, and kept their identity and culture too long for someone like you to pretend that none of that MATTERS.
It matters.
It makes them special. Just like my own ancestry...Scots through to the folks who 'went a viking,' and the Celts 'special. Nothing to be arrogant over, but certainly nothing to dismiss and pretend 'is not.'
When a human being can find and identify with a specific group, a specific culture and, well, 'tribe,' it's a GOOD thing. My children have a problem with that, actually; There's good old red headed Scottish me...but their father was half native American, a quarter African American, and the rest Hispanic and Irish and who knows.
Who do they identify with, when they can check off all the boxes? Our extended family looks like a real box of mixed chocolates; every color, every flavor, and we're fine with that, We have all sorta picked our flavor and run with it, identifying with a specific group whose ideals and culture we like the best, and the one which (mostly) confuses everybody else.
Mind you, watching a black bagpipe player accompany a native american sword dancer while the blond kid with the full red beard does a Chocktaw war dance in full regalia can get weird, but WE know who we are.
Frankly, unisus, you have absolutely no right to accuse me, or anybody else, of being anti-semitic because we acknowledge the special importance the Jews have had over the millennia, in our culture. We owe them too much to dismiss them.