Little help with semantics here.

:stuck_out_tongue:

But I’m serious! If I quote someone and say their ideas are stupid, is that a direct insult?

If I don’t quote someone, am I okay?

This dude more or less called us liars after 26,000 rounds of us trying to explain how you could be Jewish and atheist. The OP’s question, was, of course, a vaguely anti-Semitic one at that, but whatever.

So we try a few more times to explain, and he keeps arguing that we’re wrong!

Finally, after rounds and rounds, I said, rather exasperated, since he didn’t seem to get 1.) What qualifies you to be Jewish
and
2.) that he can’t dictate another religion’s law:

And then I was Warned. :smack:

I can’t go tell a Buddhist that they don’t follow a religion because they aren’t theistic! I can’t go tell a Muslim that their religion is completely invalid on the grounds that it employs a caste system. HELLO. That’s now how religions work.