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Machiavellian 4 days ago
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Pemalite said:
Cyran said:

You sorta have to seperate the Religion from the Ethnoreligious.  You can follow the religion tomorrow (most rabbi and synagogues wont accept you through till you go through conversion.  It dumb but it not like Christianity who will accept anyone, Judaism generally require you to go through all these steps to convert if you want to be a member of a synagogue.  Some synagogue are insane for example I had a cousin and when they went to get marry by a rabbi they made them prove that her mother was jewish, her mother Mother was jewish and her Mother mother Mother was jewish before he would do the marriage.  They less strict with men (he only had to prove his mother was jewish and not go back multiple gens) because if the mother jewish then the child is jewish(in the sense they will be welcome without needing to convert))

The Ethno part of Ethnoreligous is a shared heritage which means you need to be born into.  For example when I do a DNA test it came back 100% eastern European Jew.  I don't follow Judaism but nothing going to change the fact that my DNA connects me to that Ethnoreligous group.

The amount of steps to join a religion doesn't change it from being a religion, it's still not a race.

Conversely... The other two Abrahamic religions also have "steps" to join. I.E. Baptism for example with Christianity, with some denominations going to extreme levels like abstinence and so forth... And other denominations forbidding marrying of non-Christians or those that dont adhere to that specific denomination.
https://www.thecrosspensacola.org/membership-process

Jews originate from the "israelites" and share common ancestry with other middle-eastern peoples like the Arabs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_studies_of_Jews

Muslims can be even more extreme than Christians.

All three religions are cut from the same cloth, so it only makes sense that they share commonality with their rules like not eating pork.

I have to disagree with the Baptism for Christianity as you do not have to do it to be a Baptist.  Christianity is probably the most lose when it comes to traditions and practices since there are so many different denominations.  Those denominations just teach in a different style more than anything else but there are no criteria you need in order to call yourself one of those denonminations.