I was thinking about this and looking for informed answers or corrections. Why are there so few Jews, compared to many religions? Is it correct that they do not have doctrines that force their followers to spread their views? They do not have scriptures that state they must save as many as they can before some judgment? I mean, they don't knock on doors and send their teenagers on missionaries, or force infidels/gentiles to convert or be beheaded?

Was that the greatest trick of Christianity and Islam, to harp on the idea that you must save as many souls as possible and convert? It just seems so god damn... clever.

Jews are an ethnicity and a religion, and this is because one is primarily born into it. Other than conversions through marriage, it is a closed elite system, to some degree. Do Hindus focus on converting; do Buddhists?

Are these statements correct? I'm sure a Jew or exJew would know more than me in the subject, as would people from their own religions.