re: #48 SanFranciscoZionist

Yes. They do. And haredim turned out to protest them.

Good for the ones who did that - seriously. Yes of course, not all fundies are the same- I didn’t mean to imply that. For one thing Jewish fundies don’t seem to be anywhere near as taken with creationism as their counterparts in some other religions.

However, it remains that religious fundamentalism of whatever stripe still values revelation over reason wherever possible, (at the very least in areas where scripture is not directly contradicted by scientific fact) and so tends at the very least to be at odds with progress on all kinds of social, moral and economic issues. That is something that fundamentalist approaches to religion always seem to have in common. The issues discussed in the magazine piece illustrate this pretty well in their impact on modern Israeli society.

But hey there’s a silhouetted Jew in the illustration so let’s fixate on that because that’s the BIG issue here/