If Judaism is an ethnoreligion; why are so many white?

[twf]

What on earth do you mean by ‘scientifically defined’? Science does not proceed through a process of definition and any attempt to establish meaning will end up with an infinite regress.

Are we to be allowed any kind of descriptive term without being damned for not using scientific method?

My point was that the terms “race” and “people” are basically meaningless scientifically so you can use them however your culture has defined those terms. Some people will refer to the Jewish “race” and others to the Jewish “people”. Its a meaningless distinction. You’ll find multiple definitions of both words in any given dictionary.

 

[Moses613]

By a tremendous margin, the most sane voice on this subject is a man named Shlomo Sand. I recommend reading his books.

Shlomo Sand is a total crackpot conspiracy theorist.

P.S.: Good review of Shlomo Sand

 

[Kielbasi]

I don’t mean to come off wrong; but Judaism never seemed converts like say Christianity and Islam but is historically an ethnoreligion, like say, Zoroastrianism. With that said, Judaism stems from the middle east. Why does it seem like now the majority of Jewish people look like white Caucasians, even in Israel? Did something happen in the historical timeline to make this occur?

A lot of things have happened. First of all its been thousands of years, races aren’t nearly as “pure” as some people think. Plenty of the Jewish people over the past 2000 years converted to Christianity or other faiths, others married into or converted to Judaism.

Jews are the spiritual sons of the ancient Israel, doesn’t mean they are necessarily the biological sons.

Further, folks in the middle east aren’t necessarily nearly as dark as some people think. Pittsburgh has plenty of Syrians and Lebanese, and they are just ordinary white people too.

 

[steve93]

A lot of things have happened. First of all its been thousands of years, races aren’t nearly as “pure” as some people think. Plenty of the Jewish people over the past 2000 years converted to Christianity or other faiths, others married into or converted to Judaism.

Jews are the spiritual sons of the ancient Israel, doesn’t mean they are necessarily the biological sons.

Further, folks in the middle east aren’t necessarily nearly as dark as some people think. Pittsburgh has plenty of Syrians and Lebanese, and they are just ordinary white people too.

All the Lebanese I know are at least as dark as Mexicans if not darker.