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Judaism is belonging

I was reading this very interesting text from a book called Being Jewish in a Gentile World and decided to share some thoughts with you.
“In Western civilization, belonging to a religion means expressing allegiance to a basic doctrinal principle without which a person cannot be said to “belong” to that religion. Essentially, Christianity is a matter of doctrine, of belief. On the other hand, a Jew is a Jew irrespective of his doctrinal affirmation”. Being Jewish is belonging to the Jewish people.

posted by Ruth @ 3:03 PM