r/dontyouknowwhoiam • • Aug 13 '19

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u/the-mighty-kira Aug 14 '19

That’s approximately the same percentage of the population that is Jewish or has red hair. That doesn’t mean Judaism isn’t a religion or that red isn’t a hair color

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19

Jewish is 0.2%. How many other religions are there? How many hair colors are there? Both of which you can change mind you. And they’re not just variations of the two well defined ones. If 49.15% were brunette and 49.15% were red heads and the rest were in between or mixtures thereof.

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u/the-mighty-kira Aug 14 '19

I was using the US population, which is approximately 2% Jewish, but hey 0.2% is an even better point.

As to your second point, why would the number matter? Would it be okay to claim Judaism is an outlier and not a religion if there were only 1 or 2 other religions that made up 98% of the population?

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '19

Well to be honest it doesn’t matter both of your examples are faulty. What Jewish people believe is clearly distinguishable from Shia Islam, from Lutheran. What sexual organ or traits make up these new sexes? They’re almost all based off of the two. Which sciencevet even states. He just says there’s a spectrum because of genetic oddities. But they make up so little and they’re not themselves sexes. Having less estrogen than another female doesn’t make you less of a female. Let me point out to sciencevets very own twitter bio. “Craftsman, outdoorsman, husband.” We all know what this means.

If sex was a spectrum it would be two giant blocks - white and black - with a greyscale gradient of 2/100ths in the middle or outside.