Reply To: Gentile means atheist or polytheist?

lesschumras +1

You’re right. That’s one reason why I come to the CR, to see if this stuff is the norm. If a rabbi is saying something, I assume he is coming from an educated position and has reputable sources to back this up.

In this case, I looked up gentile and there is a definition of “pagan and heathen.”

Just remembered though that other rabbonim refer to nonJews as gentiles.

We even refer to nonJews with high merits as Righteous Gentiles.

If someone was a good person and saved the lives of many Jews in the Holocaust, would he/she still be a Righteous Gentile if he/she was an adamant polytheist/atheist/idolator/non-monotheist?