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I'm not sure I agree with you, yet, but well spoken, nonetheless.

It should not be so used. Words mean things.

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Edited on Wed Nov-18-09 11:10 PM by dschis 2 things, Pharisees and 'professed ones'. Christ didn't have a lot of good things to say about them. He addressed those: Love your enemies, it's easier to put a camel through the eye of a needle than to get a rich man to heaven as well as others. That's why I came to DU, I think you guys are wrong about non-belief, but at least 99% of the time you guys do care about your...

I see that some facts are present but other important facts are ignored. I don't think Jews take the position that we are all decedents of a specific race going back to ancient Hebrews. It is a common understanding that there were mixes through history and conversions along the way. A major fact here not mentioned is that Jewish law does not define a Jew by his race or having passed a DNA test. Jewish law states that a person is Jewish...

You are just as ignorant as the poster you responded to. Try looking it up in a dictionary.

or they smile, take their Watchtower hand out and throw it in the garbage. I go a different route, challenging their views by asking them to defend what's in the Bible. Most of them seem to have little knowledge of the book past the talking points they're told to recite. I don't look for validation. I look to plant a seed in people's minds that just might lead them out of religion's shackles, and to show them that...

Why not the eradication of terminal illnesses or famine?

to tell them apart by looking at them. Most people look different than other people.