No argument from me. Only defense is I was speaking loosely and about this moment in the US. Def not about Israel the state.
To me religion is a weird crutch, like an illness. Religions in practice can be (to non participants) benign to toxic. Internally, no comment, no experience except creepy catholicism in my long ago youth.
Don’t need to go to Israel or Palestine for extremist Jews. New York has a couple of places run by the ultra conservative sects and control the local gov’t and make a lot of problems for non-believers.
No argument from me. Only defense is I was speaking loosely and about this moment in the US. Def not about Israel the state.
To me religion is a weird crutch, like an illness. Religions in practice can be (to non participants) benign to toxic. Internally, no comment, no experience except creepy catholicism in my long ago youth.
Don’t need to go to Israel or Palestine for extremist Jews. New York has a couple of places run by the ultra conservative sects and control the local gov’t and make a lot of problems for non-believers.