I have suffered from more anti-Semitism than Benchik will ever know in a 1000 lifetimes. I eat bacon and do my best work on Saturdays. I think the Old Testament god is a singularly unpleasant fictional character. I want all yarmulke-wearing idiots to pipe the hell down already.
That is not to say I agree with @TheRaDR. But I'd at least happily argue with her over a nice plate of ham and eggs.
Seriously, think about it, who the hell hates Jews because of religion anymore? This isn't the V century. We are hated on racial and ethnic grounds, not because we follow the most OCD set of religious prohibitions ever invented.
So it makes sense to define us as a race/ethnicity.
So it makes sense to define us as a race/ethnicity.
In fact, the best thing all normal Jews can do is divorce themselves from the religious idiots once and for all. Let the Hasidim and the like be their own ethnicity, which represents us no more than the Amish represent ethnic Germans.
All normal Jews are agnostic/atheist anyway.
All normal Jews are agnostic/atheist anyway.
