That's such nonsensical horseshit. Contemporary Judaism is as multifarious as most other religions nowadays. It's at least as sectarian as Islam or Christianity. None of the "Abrahamic religions" resemble the monolithic caricature of Pop Atheist fantasies.

There are so many posters in Substack comments who are out of their depth with their sweeping oversimplifications about religion and theism that it's a waste of time to engage any of you on the subject. I don't have time to do the teach-in, especially to people who are completely out of their depth on those subjects, and either don't realize it or are thoroughly content with it.

Instead, I confine my commentary here to directly cogent political points and factual observations. As a rule.

Consider this post an exception. I just need to get it on the record that not everyone posting in Caitlin's story comments thrives on recurrently diverting the discussion into an atheist group hug. You all can deceive yourselves that all reasonable people share your callow middle-school takes on philosophy and history, but don't flatter yourselves that the lack of protracted disagreement with your shallow takes constitutes evidence of consensus. Some of us just prefer to keep our statements on-topic and well out of the realm of fiat conclusions delivered in regard to topics of universal scope, which are typically scantily informed by subjective personal perspectives that masquerade as Final Wisdom, leavened only by the usual predictable select handful of cliche examples and historical factoids.

Those of us who haven't checked out of CJ discussions entirely, that is, recognizing that unlike some Substack pages where the comment discussion is at least as worthwhile than the articles, the information value to be found on Caitlin's page is almost entirely found in her own posts.

Granted, Feral Finster posts here, and that makes for reliably entertaining reading. Worth noting that whatever FF's theological orientation or lack of one, Finster knows better than to derail conversations into the pompous anti-religion diatribes and associated pile-on subthreads that so often crop up in the comments of Substacks for writers like Caitlin Johnstone, Chris Hedges, and Bill Astore. Even if the preening antitheist activists here could manage to strip their pamphleteering of its sneering hostility, it would still be off-topic.