Ultranationalist Israeli lawmaker tears up New Testament
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Anonymous
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http://news.yahoo.com/religious-israeli-lawmaker-tears-testament-101541114.html
Way to shore up support in America, dude! Is it just me or is a larger and larger segment of that country increasingly going nuts? I don't remember so much news of the weird coming out of Israel when I was younger, what with ultra-orthodox men spitting on little girls and calling them whores, Likud telling Israeli Jews not to marry Americans, and now this... |
Anonymous
| They're just freaked out because Egypt now belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood and they know how fucked they are. |
Anonymous
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Muslim brotherhood has become more moderate.
Anyways, at least he did not tear up the koran He would be getting death threats if he had done that. |
Anonymous
| There is a lot of discrimination and hateful acts against Christians in Israel, but it never seems to get reported here. |
Anonymous
I don't think it's a larger segment of the country going nuts. There is legitimate conflict between the ultranationalists and mainstream Israel. In the past, it has worked out OK. Labor and Likud both had to pander to them in order to form a government. This allowed them to pass religious laws and to have aggressive settlement policies. And no one challenged the wacky stuff they did because a lot of Israelis feel it important to support a religious element within the country, since so many Israelis are not practicing themselves. So if you have a group settling the desert, they are patriots reclaiming land. And if the men all go to religious scholarship, great because someone has to maintain the faith traditions. But things really are changing. The settlements are becoming more of a liability. And as the governments have chosen to restrict or even abandon settlements, this has created tension with the religious, who have been dragged at times kicking and screaming from their settlements. And talk of ceding any land to a Palestinian government is heresy to many of them. Lastly, those religious scholars are rapidly increasing in numbers, and they are starting to look less like the keepers of the faith and more like unemployed men who are a drag on the social welfare system. So it may be counter-intuitive that this is going on, given the lack of movement by the Israeli government. But inside of Israel it is a tension reflective of a bit of a schism on the direction of the country. |
Anonymous
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Do not worry. Demographics will change.
Remember 20 % muslim minority? They will not go away. In the future a 80% jewish majority will be more hard to maintain. This just means religion will be a sign of class |
Anonymous
The evangelical Christians in the US believe that they have to support Israel because it's been predicted that the second coming will occur when Israel is a nation in the Holy Land - or something to that effect. I don't know that they will care that much about what an individual Israeli politician does as long as they think they will get their Second Coming. |
Anonymous
| Crazy guy tears up a book of fiction. Who cares? |
Anonymous
| Ultra conservative evangelical Christianitians are nuts. They should stay home and mind their business. Muslim Jihadists as it applies to religious wars against infidels are insane and dy |
Anonymous
Informative analysis. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
People who do not believe it is a work of fiction. Are atheists usually this deliberately obtuse? |
Anonymous
Clearly, the conservative jews do not think it is fiction why else bother to tear it up ? |
Anonymous
Fiction or not, so many Jews were killed in its name that it is taken very seriously. But I think it is highly unfair to speak of "the conservative jews" in this context as though one extremist were representative of a large mainstream group. |
Anonymous
| Introduce this looney to Terry Jones of burn the Koran fame. No religion has the exclusive right to idiotic religious extremists |