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the French Archbishop of Paris proclaimed that he remained "Jewish" at his ordination to the bishopric. By Jewish he meant he retained his culture, as his parents were slaughtered in Auschwitz. Does his new religion make him less Jewish or non-Jewish as an Atheist Jew? A Jew is a Jew for life if his mother was Jewish according to Orthodox Judaism.
Sorry, but whether the bishop thinks he is Jewish or not, he is in fact a Roman Catholic with only a historical Jewish family background. That would be the correct way to describe his history and status.
Jews are a religion, not simply a "culture."
Someone can no more identify themselves as "Jewish" by "culture" than a Christian can.
And someone that denies the existence of God is not Jewish, they are correctly identified as an atheist with a Jewish family background.
Orthodox Judaism and its authorities consider Jews that become Christians, apostates. And no Jewish authority has ever said otherwise.
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the first Christian religion, founded by the Apostles, was founded by Jews
The apostles you mention had a Jewish background, but were considered apostates, by Jewish authorities at their time. Their beliefs were rejected by Jews and Jewish leaders, and not that long thereafter the faith they chose was identified as a seperate and distinct religion, which essentially largely grew and flourished through the peoples within the Roman Empire and later Europe, that had no Jewish background.
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You sound anti-Christian, the Messianic Jew who posted above sounds normal
Frankly, there is no such thing as a "Messianic Jew," there are just Jews, as defined by the organized Jewish communtiy. And it isn't up to you or others outside of the organized Jewsih community to define what is "normal" for Jews, Judaism and/or for Jews to practice or believe.
If someone wishes to leave Judaism and convert to another religion they have that right, but then lose the right to call themselves "Jews," without qualification.
Again, there is no problem historically and factually with the title "apostate Jews," for those Jews that convert to another religion.
It is really hubris to say the least, when people outside of the organized Jewish communtiy presume that they somehow have the right to impose their definitions and/or understandings upon a faith that they are not a member of.