(August 10, 2014 at 1:20 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Skip the labels for a second, and think, it is 2014 would it make sense to write laws based on the Rig Vedas or the Egyptian book of the dead? No. So Muslims nor Christians or Jews should be going around claiming their nation's laws are based on ancient books, cultural or religious, it is still tribalism having nothing to do with modern western pluralism. You cannot rid a pluralistic society of it's likes, but you can insist the government not play favorites.
Fine, I'm not disputing that, except for your use of the word "Jew" as is used commonly by the people to which that term refers to. Now in your post above, you are using "Jews" along with Christians and Muslims. So it's clear in that context, you are using the word "Jews" as a religious group.
All I'm saying is that the word "Jew" can also have an ethnic sense. For instance in the sentence, "The Nazis persecuted the Jews", the word "Jews" is meant in the ethnic sense, as the Nazis didn't care if you were a believer of the Judaic law, that is, even if you were an atheist but of Jewish origin, you would have been sent to the gas chamber.
