Grace versus (Matrilineal) Descent, Part III

Another follow-up post to my friend Chagrin's comment.

I like the "triangular religion" paradigm (could call it a meme, but nah -- too teuthid). Nationality, ethnicity, and personal beliefs. Many Israelis are, for example, ethnic, secular Jews. I am an American secular Jew. Chagrin is an American ethnic Protestant Deist, while her father is an American ethnic Protestant with a "personal relationship" with Jesus, i.e., an Evangelical Christian.

Chagrin again: "I think it's important that one not get too lost in the overlap of issues of nationality, ethnicity, and personal beliefs, because there is no perfectly triangular 'Jew', 'Japanese', or 'WASP'."

I think that wraps this thread as well as anything I could say.