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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (258508)	3/4/2008 12:59:59 PM
From: Elroy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I have as much right to define terms as anyone. So you have a right to tell Catholics they're not Catholic if you think so? Armenians they're not Armenian? You can tell Barack Obama he's not black because his ancestors weren't slaves? Well I suppose you can do this. You will succeed in making a complete jackass of yourself. ?? Catholics who lose their faith are no longer Catholic. You disagree? That's very similar to Judaeism. Armenian is a nationality, it has nothing to do with Judaeism. An Armenian emigrates to a different nation, and has a kid in that new home, has produced a kid of a new nationality, not an Armenian kid. And his kid's kid results in less and less of any Armenian identity in the offspring. Mormons who lose their faith are no longer Mormon, even if they live smack dab in Salt Lake City and work at their local temple. And an atheist Jew doesn't make any sense outside of pathetic regions of the world where Jews have to live separately from their neighbors. Those regions don't define terms for the rest of the world - they are the backasswards place and time that the rest of us have put behind us and hope to never experience again. None of this is even controversial. Why you think it makes me a jackass indicates something about you, not about my views...