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Originally posted by Team Sergeant
[B]I disagree.
Being a Jew is like being a Boyscout, you can call yourself a Jew, Mormon, a muslim,Buddhist, or Boyscout, but in order to be a Boyscout or a Jew or Jewish, is a state of mind, an ideology a lifestyle, not a stamp that is placed upon you after you’re born.
While many in the Jewish community believe that when you are born and your mother is a Jew you will be a Jew by proxy is pure cow manure. It’s a system of “beliefs” as all religions are based upon and nothing more. You are what you believe you are not what someone tells you.
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what of someone who believes they are a jew but does not have a jewish mother, and thus is not considered a jew by other jews?
ethnicity is not 100% belief or state of mind.