“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”
Interestingly, my efforts to reach out to Christian fundamentalists increasingly starts with them asking me if I believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God – including a person last night with whom I’ve been attempting to “break the ice” locally for almost 3 years.
It’s difficult to deal with this but not as difficult as dealing with those who, if they had sufficient integrity, would make the first interaction be “Do you believe January 6th was an insurrection?”
I like my fundie “brethren” for this reason. I can say “No, I don’t.” and that doesn’t terminate the conversation – nor does it necessarily hamper our ability to find common ground almost immediately.
Where we seem to depart company is about “interpretation” of not just what “The Word of God” means but of what consists “The Word of God”. I do NOT want to mess with their perhaps precarious hold on an anchor in the storms that threaten to swamp us all. I’m ruthless about this to the point that in my interaction I set forth my willingness to sell and move if the local community sees my minority view as incompatible with their strongly held beliefs about what it takes to raise the next generation relatively free from the malign influences that are terminating their bloodlines in grandaughters that want to be boys.
The question “What Do the Jews Represent?” is pretty clear:
“Jews” stand in opposition to the principle that I not only talk, but am willing to walk right into death in The State of Nature, having been exiled from all variants of civil society.
The Wilderness
That, and that ALONE, is the moral principle that separates The Children of God from The Synagogue of Satan relative to “civil society”.
It all boils down to borders enforced by MAJORITY RIGHTS as fundamental to HUMAN RIGHTS so long as there is recognition that the individual in The State of Nature has a NATURAL RIGHT to territory right up to and inclusive of mutual hunt in Nature under the Supreme Jurisdiction.
PS: I occasionally entertain the fantasy that “The Synagogue of Satan” is going to deliver us all from civil society back to the mutual hunt in nature by making such a travesty of “civility” that humanity will develop such an allergy to “civility” that it will return to the Old Norse Law that any group roaming around the territory of Children of God is to be treated as a group organism seeking that which it may devour.