You see though

Then religious Jews

Maybe we could call them Israelite?

Yes

Their depopulation rate peaked around the 14-1600s, @Snake. It was something like nearly 90% had already died off, if memory serves me just.

@Jeremy yeah that’s what I remember

90% is the number

Then, you had the Spanish missionaries, carrying the pox.

Lol.

They were practically an extinct civilization by the time we touched ground, and what was left of them were warring tribes.

Because nothing really ties all ethic Jew populations together. Nothing makes you inherently jewish, however they all have some Israelite DNA

They aren't really Jews, per say

We'd buy some land from one tribe, and another would object.

And this is coming from a guy who's Ashkenazi

We'd enforce our property rights, thereafter.

As we rightfully did.

Quetzoqoatl is Jesus change my mind.

@Tubby the Skelly Bones still it’s a ethnic group

Ashkenazi Jews rise up

Maybe you don’t like the term

Which fair enough

I don't hate the ethnic group, just the term

Lithuanian heritage represent

Obviously lmao

I'm in the ethnic group lol

Yeah lol

Idk I don’t really dislike any of the terms

To me a Jew is someone who practices Judaism

me too

Indeed.

Yeah but Judaism has intertwined its religion with its ethnic identity

So...

It’s like

They’re is a lot of overlap

It just makes sense to me

Not every ethnic Jew is religious

Obviously

yeah I'm an atheist

But a lot of religious Jews are ethnically jewish

I could never really find anything on what makes someone inherently jewish in an ethnic sense. There's not really anything all ethnic jew populations have in common that make them Jewish in a literal sense or genetic sense. It's all Israelite DNA, at least from my understanding

but still considered a Jew