Do you think Jewish matrilineal descent laws are made to increase the number of Jews?

Question

Society views the father's heritage/religion as the dominant one.
So for the most part if a Jew male marries a non-Jew, the kids will be raised as Jews and identify as Jews (because it's hard not to with a last name like Goldstein)
So by instituting the matrilineal descent laws, if a non-Jew male marries a Jew, she feels that it's her duty to raise the kids as Jews and the kids knowing this information will identify as Jews.
So in the end, whatever the outcome, a union between a Jew and a non-Jew ends in Jewish kids.

Answer 1

You're comepletely misguided. If a Jewish man marries a non-jew and has children, the children are non-Jewish and not recognized as Jews in the community. The maternal inheritance of Jewishness is in fact an ancient gesture of compassion toward women and their children, to ensure that the children of women raped in the course of warfare and crime are accepted rather than shunned.

The maternal inheritance of Jewishness is actually causing a decrease in our population as Jewish men marry outside the faith and father non-Jewish children. It causes the opposite effect of what you're saying.

Answer 2

This is excellent tactics. So, that is wrong?

Answer 3

sure