Open Heart
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There is more than one way to commit genocide. Killing the individuals of an ethnicity is one way. But a more subtle way is to kill their culture.gentilization is a non-gentile problem
Consider that the US employed this second manner when it kidnapped Native American kids and sent them to boarding schools. There, they had their hair cut and their clothing changed. They were prohibited from speaking their language, and forced to practice the religion of their captors.
Basically, if you can obliterate the culture of a people, you have in essence taken away that very thing which makes them a people.
It is Torah which holds the Jewish people together. Any and all forces that encourage Jews to give up Torah are agents of slow motion genocide. This is why for example, that intermarriage is so devastating to the People of Israel. Joe Jew marries Betty Baptist, and suddenly he finds a Christmas tree in his living room. The Jewish identity of the children, if it is the mother that is the Jew, is tenuous, and the grandchildren simply no longer identify as Jews. And of course, if it is the the father who is the Jew, none of the children are Jews. The line is lost to the people of Israel.
In the identical way, conversion to Christianity destroys that connection to Torah. In every way, the Jew loses that culture which makes the Jews a People. The odds of intermarriage are sky high, as they will now be looking for marriage partners among Christians. The odds that their grandchildren will identify as Jews are devastatingly low. Again, their line becomes lost to the People of Israel.
The effect on the Jewish people is the same as if they had died.