Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 20:15:58 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: "T.M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Islam (was: Religions (was Re: helping victims of terror)) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011023200917.04da0720@localhost> In-Reply-To: <3BD61743.59E967E@mail.ptd.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20011020213927.048a1780@localhost> <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <1003617187.3bd1fba3d31ff@webmail.neomedia.it> <4.3.2.7.2.20011020213927.048a1780@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20011021172133.04293620@localhost>
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At 07:20 PM 10/23/2001, T.M. Sommers wrote: >Do you mean that Israel is not a Jewish state, Yes, I do mean that. Israel is a secular state. Israel does, of course, contain many Jews. New York City contains more. But this does not make New York a "Jewish" city. Israel's government has representatives from both right-wing Jewish political parties and Muslim political parties. >or that Judaism is not a religion? Judaism is a religion -- or, really, a group of religions. (Reform and Reconstructionist Judaism have very little in common with, say, Hassidism. They embrace the same religious texts, but treat them very, very differently. Their religious practices are, literally, worlds apart.) --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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