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Xanthro --Seriously, ever hear of Tay-Sachs disease? Please explain to me how a religion can cause a genetic disorder?
I dunno what yer talkin 'bout.
That would be a no then. Tay-Sachs is a genetic disorder that occurs almost exclusively among Jews. So, please explain how a religion can cause a genetic disorder? The answer is it can't.
Xanthro -- Do you know that the last name Cohen indicates a priest, and to this day DNA testing shows a close family relationship among Cohen's around the World?
Says who, the Cohens?
Says who, as in whether the Cohen are priests, or says who that DNA testing indicates family relationship?
By tradition Cohanim (plural of Cohen) are direct descendants of Aaron brother of Moses. It's also a patrilineal line, when most Jewish traditional is matrilineal.
The Y chromosome is also patrilineal (naturally), if Cohen did in fact share a common male ancestor, they should also share a Y - haplotype. Testing indicates that they do, in fact, it's named the Cohen Modal Hapoltype or (CMH). Over 90% of Jews with the last name of Cohen share the CMH marker.
In fact, you can even have yourself tested to see if you share the marker. While it's far more rare outside the Cohanim, it's not entirely absent. Which would make sense, any children ever sired by anyone with the marker and outside of marriage would have the marker. I'm sure some Jews commit adultery, even the priestly class.
Take it up with Dr Sands, he wrote the book, not me.
So, when you quote Hitler, I should take it up with him, instead of with you for?
You quoted it, thus you are claiming its truth.
Xanthro--BTW, do you think a naturalized American is somehow less an American than someone born American? If not, why does this double standard apply to Jews?
What are you talking about? What double standard? If you are asking me if I think Americans born here should set up checkpoints, shut off electricity, and poison the water of Native American reservations, then bomb and invade them when they retaliate with violence, my answer is "No." Is that the double standard you were referring to?
The double standard that somehow you think a converted Jew is less than a real Jew. Yet, I doubt you'd list a naturalized American as less American than one born in the USA.
