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KitSileya

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2. If I am not much mistaken, Jewish faith is very pragmatic in extreme situations.

Reply to Behind the Aegis (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 30, 2015, 01:13 AM

Oct 2015

Isn't is so that if you are starving to death, you are allowed to eat non-kosher food? Because preservation of life is paramount? I think I read that somewhere in connection with the Holocaust.

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This is just tragic on so many levels. Behind the Aegis Oct 2015 #1

If I am not much mistaken, Jewish faith is very pragmatic in extreme situations. KitSileya Oct 2015 #2

That is true. Behind the Aegis Oct 2015 #3

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I didn't say it, which is why you successfully defeated your own strawman. Behind the Aegis Oct 2015 #5

Took the words right out of my mouth. LostOne4Ever Oct 2015 #6

how damned generous of them. pansypoo53219 Oct 2015 #7

that was my first thought too... Javaman Oct 2015 #9

That's nice. Quantess Oct 2015 #8

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I find that fascinating. Brickbat Oct 2015 #11

While it's sad that that it takes something like this mythology Oct 2015 #12