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 On 05/08/2025 in message <106sgpv$2c33g$1@dont-email.me> Jethro_uk wrote: 
  
 >On Mon, 04 Aug 2025 21:14:53 +0100, JNugent wrote: 
 > 
 >>On 04/08/2025 10:12 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote: 
 >>>On 03/08/2025 in message <5996360858.0795274f@uninhabited.net> Roger 
 >>>Hayter wrote: 
 >>> 
 >>>>>Yes, why should any one religion have precedence? It would refer to 
 >>>>>"religion" (to be defined) rather than each specific religion. 
 >>>> 
 >>>>I'm rather confused; what law are you referring to that protects one 
 >>>>religion more than another? Are you sure they just haven't been any 
 >>>>attempts to persecute or whip up hatred agains members of most 
 >>>>religions? Are you sure that a serious threat to persecute or kill 
 >>>>methodists would not be severely punished in the unlikely event that 
 >>>>it happened? 
 >>> 
 >>>I have pruned this, it's getting a bit long. 
 >>> 
 >>>The various laws relating to antisemitism protect the Jewish faith, I 
 >>>am not aware of anything similar for other faiths. 
 >> 
 >>Those laws don't protect the Jewish faith and that isn't the intention. 
 >> 
 >>They protect Jewish people. 
 > 
 >And it seems we are back at the beginning of a large circle. 
 > 
 >Is "Jewish" a designation of the religion a person practices ? Or of some 
 >sort of geographical origin ? 
 > 
 >Can I become Jewish tomorrow (or later today if the barber is open) ? 
 > 
 >Would that make me a semite ? Like all the other people from historical 
 >Judea - including Muslims ? 
 > 
 >Can I have my cake and eat it ? 
 > 
 >These - and no other questions - are still to be decided. Luckily we now 
 >have the concept of quantum physics to guide us. We may yet get there. 
  
 This is completely new to me as may have been apparent from my posts. 
  
 I have never been taught that being a Jew reflected anything other than a 
 religion and "Jewish People" to me is people of the Jewish religion. 
  
 If it is something else it throws me back to my original post on this 
 which, broadly, asked why we had antisemitism laws but nothing similar for 
 other religions, it now seems I should have been asking why we have 
 nothing similar for the equivalent of "Jewish People" not for other 
 religions but for what, other races, nationalities, origins? 
  
 Apologies for my ignorance but all I remember from my Religious Lessons 
 was a discussion about Jesus turning water into wine when our RE Master 
 said it happened at a party when people were probably too drunk to know 
 the difference. We also discussed socialism which he was adamant was 
 abhorrent and completely contrary to human nature. 
  
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