ORTHODOX RELIGIOSITY ......

Two days ago ,Israel's high court reversed and rescinded an old law of their military draft, normally all 18 years old have to serve their military for almost 3 years for the males and 2 for females, only orthodox Jews were exempt for religious reasons, the court considered it unfair to other and all the young people and idol-worshipers , some resistance to the measure is surely to be expected .

For all religions and religious systems, faith and the love of god and his laws , are not good in themselves, they're only good when they are part of virtue, bad when part of vice. Pretending and the continuous declaration of absolute faith, like other emotions must be disciplined, if it is not to collapse and be dominated by cruelty and savagery .

Gone are the days when Musslems , Jews or others can fool the world by scenes of piety , repeated prayers and physical rituals whether in front of walls or mass prayers on bear streets and open public spaces . convincing themselves and younger adepts that the love of god is strictly reserved for them the lucky and chosen ones, allowing them all sorts of privileges in this life and the next one .

Wearing shorter dresses or longer ones for both men and women, with specific long beards and peyot and side locks , while savagely killing innocent kids at concerts or at a military check point or driving a vehicle into a crowd , are not compatible with godly philosophy no matter what side you're on and do not convince anyone nowadays . Modern Israelis as historic Jews in Europe who for centuries isolated themselves in ghettos, trying to preserve a way of life and philosophy were leading the way for modern Musslem salafis  mostly immigrants to Europe and the Western hemisphere, both groups were and continue to be persecuted , isolated and loathed .

Rebellion against religious governed societies, their logic and policies, is clearly justified, when their laws are seen as usurping the sovereignty of other people, this is what made it possible, more or less, for the privatization of religion in Western and some Eastern developed societies, and the development of political orders in which the rights and duties of the citizens take precedence over religious orders , religious hierarchies and their needs .

We should not be intimidated at all or subdued into feeling guilty, or at fault toward religious fervor, as their resentment will only intensify . The Judeo/Islamic inheritance versus modernity and post modernity . Both committing tragedies in the name of their faith and gods, only to prove themselves against any triumph of dignity over destruction, and compassion over despair, people in our times who loudly claim that their religion supersedes the legal worldly constitution and judiciary laws of their countries of residence should have no place in the mentioned countries .

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