Someone asked me (athiest) if I disliked jewish religion, I said I did, am I anti-semetic?

Answer 1

You probably don't even understand the Jewish faith...so it means you are ignorant.

Answer 2

Just because you dislike a religion does not make you anti anything. If you ridiculed or discriminated against someone based on their jewish heritage, then you would be anti-semetic. You're an athiest and you're entitled to your beliefs just as I'm entitled to disagree with you.

Answer 3

I agree basically with solly. You're not anti-Semitic just because you don't like Judaism, unless you only dislike Judaism. Even then, if it's just that the practices don't appeal to you, you're still not anti-Semitic--at least not in my view. However there's a line between not finding something appealing and going around saying something is dirty or disgusting--and that's the line you have to be careful about.

Answer 4

you must be.
based on your answer.

does it bother you?

an'ti-Se·mit'ic (-sə-mĭt'ĭk)

–noun : a person who discriminates against or is
prejudiced or hostile toward Jews.

SEMITIC
In linguistics and ethnology, Semitic (from the Biblical "Shem", Hebrew: שם, translated as "name", Arabic: ساميّ) was first used to refer to a language family of largely Middle Eastern origin, now called the Semitic languages. This family includes the ancient and modern forms of Amharic, Arabic, Aramaic, Akkadian, Ge'ez, Hebrew, Maltese, Tigre and Tigrinya among others.
As language studies are interwoven with cultural studies, the term also came to describe the extended cultures and ethnicities, as well as the history of these varied peoples as associated by close geographic and linguistic distribution. The late 19th century term "anti-Semitism" came to be used in reference specifically to anti-Jewish sentiment, further complicating the understood meaning and boundaries of the term.

The term Semite was proposed at first to refer to the languages related to Hebrew by Ludwig Schlözer,

Answer 5

NO! You do not like their religion that's fine; you said nothing about not liking the Jewish People or The people of Palestine:
Both who are a SEMITIC PEOPLE.

Answer 6

why would you tell someone you didnt like the Jewish religion? of course that person is going to think you are anti-Semitic

Answer 7

No, you said you dislike the religion, not the people. You can not like religion, but that doesnt mean you dont like jews, catholics, muslims, etc.

Answer 8

Only if your dislike takes the form of hostility or discriminatory behavior.

L'chaim, shmendrick!

Answer 9

No, because you would of more than likely given the same response to any religious affiliation.

Answer 10

Well if you're an atheist then you're sort of anti-everything aren't you? Also you spelled atheist wrong sinner.