What Kind of Jew Are You?

Rav Adam: I wouldn't call the US democratic. the vote of a citizen in one state is not worth the vote of a citizen in another state. This shows all are not equal when it comes to leading the country (a recurrent theme in US history). While it can be argued the US are "democratic enough", it can also be argued they are socialist, through various emplyment, disability, etc programmes. It can also be argued the US have created more dictatorships than democracies...

Fact is, whether things seem to be one way or the other, democracy is the running of the country by the people, and socialism is the redistribution of wealth. One does not exclude the other. Besides, the marxist ideal of "dictature of the proletariat" is no less democratic than the US electoral college system...

Ren, i will agree that we are not a true Democracy, we are a Representative Federalist Democracy. I would also say that we need to remove the Electoral College from our process. Our President should be elected by the popular vote not based on the amount of large states the candidate wins. I do not know how the country would have fared under Gore, but who knows.

I would say that we do have, at least in my opinion, the best system, although i do believe that we are headed down the wrong road currently and that we are slipping closer and closer to a socialist state.

Why is Sephardic there but Ashkenazi isn't. Looking at it, it seems like you assume that Orthodox equates to Ashkenazi, who were only the Germanic Jews. Also, what about the Arab Jews or the Indian Jews (Yes they existed).

on a five star scale i give this chart, or am i too overwhelmed by the titling of the subject, twenty nine stars, but essene could also be branched out, Nazarite/Nazarene for one.

thank you.

Br. John wrote: This chart speaks for itself. It's remarkable thinking about this. For all in this Rite studying this is indispensable. For any student of comparative religion it's a must.

So most everyone is Christian origin?

i remember reading that roman catholicism had a lot to do with the creation of islam. or they actually wrote most of the koran.

How did Mormonism grow from Methodism?

dont mess with me i know jew jitsu

i mean, ah, shalom!

That chart is a load of rubbish. One of the many errors is the assumption that the listed religions are monolithic in the sense that they remain constant throughout their history and across geography. Not so. Judaism is itself influenced by a variety of sources and has never been monolithic.

The chart is so wrong in so many ways. The lines between religions is supposedly showing development (influence?) from one to another. So, what was Christianity before Paul if he is its first interpreter? But he was of the Pharisaic tradition so that line has to be re-drawn. Judean Christianity is a misnomer. The earliest competing tradition was Galilean or does the chart mean Jerusalem? Then that would have to be part of 1st century Judaism before the destruction of the Second Temple. After that everything changed.

Cathars? Why does this heresy get a place?

Sadducees? They ARE the Northern Tribal which is a meaningless term anyway.

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