Pemalite said:
Machiavellian said:
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. |
Baptist is a denomination... Aka. A "variant" of the Christian religion/Bible interpretation.
Baptism is a process for "recruiting" someone to join said religion.
And you are right, there are a ton of denominations... Over 45,000 in-fact using quick google-fu.
But Muslims and Jewish also have different denominations as well... And whilst not as many in sheer number as the Christian religion, they do have significant variances in traditions, recruitment and religious rules/requirements/regulations/expectations.
My parents forced me to join a Church when I was a child, 7th day Adventist to be exact which are extremely conservative in it's ideology, right down to requiring a baptism to join it. - I would even go as far to call this Church a cult.
Either way, their attempts at indoctrination failed on this Atheist... Likely made easier when they tried to preach to me that Homosexuality is a choice and that it is an abomination.
bdbdbd said:
It's ethnoreligious group, much like Hindus. In the US, it seems that the jews are considered an oppressed minority, whereas in Europe only a dead jew is a good jew - for the left atleast - because that's when you can call victimhood. The same people who chant "from river to sea", are people who are worried about increasing antisemitism. And that's wokeness. |
If you go back to my previous posts, I called it an ethnoreligious group.
And no. It's not "wokeness". Which is a bullshit term anyway.
As for Europe and the Jews... There has already been a war over it, world war 2 to be exact. Europe supported the Jewish.
Cyran said:
Not a race but Eastern European Jew for example consider a ethnicity or at the very least there is something in my DNA linking me to that group of people. I sent in a DNA kit and 100% eastern European Jew is what the results said so there clearly something in my DNA they looking at.  |
As per the evidence I provided earlier, they share common ancestry with the Arabs. |
Actually Europe did not support jews. Nazis had the same attitude towards jews as everyone else. WW2 was continuation to WW1 where Europe went from having a few empires to many nation states. The support for jews came after WW2, this is why the British gave jews Israel.
Wokeness is bullshit term, but it also describes this "social justice" you see quite commonly these days.
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