If someone say they are Jewish and he work on Saturday, is he really Jewish?

[Anonymous]

[NamerOfStars]

Yes- he may not be particularly observant, or may have a job that an exception is made for, like being a doctor.

[slatyb]

If some is not is working on Sunday, are they not really Christian?

[Darklydarkened]

Being Jewish is an ethnic identity. Not all jews are religious, nor all of them adhere to every law around. Some of them don't believe in god, even though they follow the Jewish tradition because of cultural reasons.

[NamerOfStars]

Being Jewish is a religion, not an ethnicity. They allow converts, you know.

[Darklydarkened]

@NamerOfStars Nope! You're mixing Judaism with Jews

[NamerOfStars]

..."mixing"? A Jew is a practitioner of Judaism.

[Darklydarkened]

@NamerOfStars No you idiot! A Jew is just a Jew, just like an Anglosaxon, French, German, Slavic or Arab person.

[NamerOfStars]

No, a Jew is a practitioner of Judaism. The ethnic equivalent would be "Hebrew". Given that Jews comprise a large number of ethnicities, claiming otherwise is just idiotic.

Try reading a dictionary.

[Darklydarkened]

@NamerOfStars You're just wrong. Hebrew, is a language within semitic language family.

[NamerOfStars]

Yes, and it is so called because it's the language of the Hebrew people. I'm not wrong; just unwilling to let lies go unchallenged.

[Darklydarkened]

@NamerOfStars Hebrew is a semitic language

Aramaic is another one

Jews, are an ethnic group

[shortster]

He may have Jewish ancestry, but not be very religious.