Gobsmacked. Talk about cognitive dissonance. Preachers and politics—never a good combination. There is so much more to say but I need to compose my thoughts.
Gobsmacked. Talk about cognitive dissonance. Preachers and politics—never a good combination. There is so much more to say but I need to compose my thoughts.
Appears that Israeli politics is a microcosm of what exists here! Preachers leading their flock to magaville! Netti, like the amoral orange creature, is a by product of the hatemongering by right wing groups in Israel
Religious (supposedly) Israelis advocating for genocide is dismaying. I understand that humankind is not, in its native state, particularly distant from chimpanzees and can engage in particularly nasty tribalism. I don’t approve of genocide, but I can understand where it comes from. But what is so dismaying is that we all, especially in the US, have expected Israel, as a nation, to be better. Reflecting on the dreadful treatment of Jews over the millennia, we hoped they would rise above revenge. To be not just a democracy, but to be a moral leader in the Middle East. To know what it is like to have your agency, your very identity, denied. To have compassion. And here it’s seeming they are just another tribe of nasty East African Plains Apes, like the rest of us. It’s disheartening.
To say I expected better of them is an understatement. They suffered so much and then to deny humane treatment to the innocents is atrocious. Granted they started it, but apparently Netanyahu had a hand in the Hamas government and not all Palestinians support Hamas. Just like not all Israelis support the duplicitous Bibi. Just like not a majority of Americans support our cult figure. Who will prove better than the gaggle of geese making no sense at all.
Gobsmacked. Talk about cognitive dissonance. Preachers and politics—never a good combination. There is so much more to say but I need to compose my thoughts.
Appears that Israeli politics is a microcosm of what exists here! Preachers leading their flock to magaville! Netti, like the amoral orange creature, is a by product of the hatemongering by right wing groups in Israel
So, I’m back.
Religious (supposedly) Israelis advocating for genocide is dismaying. I understand that humankind is not, in its native state, particularly distant from chimpanzees and can engage in particularly nasty tribalism. I don’t approve of genocide, but I can understand where it comes from. But what is so dismaying is that we all, especially in the US, have expected Israel, as a nation, to be better. Reflecting on the dreadful treatment of Jews over the millennia, we hoped they would rise above revenge. To be not just a democracy, but to be a moral leader in the Middle East. To know what it is like to have your agency, your very identity, denied. To have compassion. And here it’s seeming they are just another tribe of nasty East African Plains Apes, like the rest of us. It’s disheartening.
To say I expected better of them is an understatement. They suffered so much and then to deny humane treatment to the innocents is atrocious. Granted they started it, but apparently Netanyahu had a hand in the Hamas government and not all Palestinians support Hamas. Just like not all Israelis support the duplicitous Bibi. Just like not a majority of Americans support our cult figure. Who will prove better than the gaggle of geese making no sense at all.
Right there with you. I need to compose my thoughts -- and my stomach.
Preachers and politicians should never collude. Didn’t Jesus say something like that.