Tommy's loyalties do not lay with the English people
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Something more substantial would be better. To me, it sounds like the pretty standard "we have a claim over you forever" mentality that most religions have; but in reality, being an apostate or a heretic means you're really just not of that religion.
From the outside looking in, you’re right. It is saying that they have a claim over you forever. If a Jew converted to Islam and then subsequently to Christianity, both Jewish and Islamic law would assert a claim over him forever. His conversion to Islam would be regarded as invalid and a death penalty offense in halacha, and his subsequent conversion to Christianity would be regarded as invalid and a capital offense in both halacha and shariah.
That's my point. I don't agree with any rationalization of execution for apostasy, but certainly that is "no longer being a jew" in any real sense of the word.
So we agreed all along? It was just a definition-debate?