re: #298 windsagio

So wait, Rand wouldn’t have been Rand if she were Jewish?

Dunno about that man :P

I hear your point and it is not quite what I was driving for.

So let me answer it in several different ways:

1. OF course and unfortunately there are some Jews who have bought into essentially everything that the right wingnut GOP says. They are a tragic example of someone getting as far from the values of their culture as could ever be seen. We really are big on things like charity, clothing the naked, feeding the hungry, helping the poor, educating the masses, rejection of materialism (which is different from rejecting owning good things all together) and taking care of the environment. While we are at it, we are really clear that the color of your skin is not something that alters your value as a human being. We are incredibly clear that workers have rights. We are incredibly clear that humans have rights just for being human. We are very very clear that the government does not have the right to infringe those God given rights.

2. The hard core biblical values of Judaism are actually what most people would call liberal - see above for a very short list. The same statement applies to the early Christians for obvious reasons. This may be a semi-humorous way of putting it, but seriously, Jesus with all of that talk of meek people inheriting the Earth and rich people having a hard time getting to heaven - well come on now, is that a Democrat talking or a Republican?

3. These Jewish values, not surprisingly are and were held by most Jews. Go figure. As a block, we tend to be liberal.