OK...I know the US isn't a "Christian Nation", although some folks would like to get it there. I can't remember anything in our founding documents which creates said religious nation. Then I got to wondering whether Izzie is a Jewish State, or a secular nation with a lot of Jews living there.
I was going to read what the Israeli Constitution had to say. Whoops, they don't have one.
We report, you decide; it's too far over my head...:-)
Way long article...
"As a synthesizing document, the Declaration's phrasing reflects the problems of reaching consensus, also building into the polity's foundations the fundamental tensions whose resolution anew by each generation for that generation constitute major tasks of Israeli politics. For example, there was the well-known controversy over whether or not there should be a reference to God in the text. For the secularist, anti-religious left that was still very powerful in 1948, any mention of Divine providence was anathema. For religious Jews and those perhaps not so personally observant but still anchored within the framework of Jewish tradition, the proclamation of the reestablishment of the Jewish state could not appear without such a reference. The compromise worked out was built around the inclusion of Tzur Israel (Rock of Israel), a phrase traditionally used as a euphemism for God, yet vague enough to allow for various interpretations. Since then, the tension between secular and religious has taken various turns but it remains fundamental to almost every aspect of Israeli politics.
jcpa.org
The religious right in both countries are trying to get them to be religious states. We know what goes on here, but, in Israel, the fundies go out and throw rocks at cars driving on the Sabbath, 'cuz it violates whatever commandment it is. As if throwing rocks on the Sabbath is good. Fundies are fundies, and it doesn't matter whether they start with J, C, or M, or probably H; don't know it there are whacko militant Buddhists; would seem to be contradictory.
The Great Spirit never should have let man invent religion; the "primitives" living in their isolated tribes have the right ideer; do some drugs and stare into a fire , and communicate directly.
Show me one church, temple, or mosque on the entire mudball that is closer to the Great Spirit than a redwood grove :-) |
