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Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by bawolff on Thursday September 01, 2022 @06:28AM (#32674420)
> What's infinitely more likely is that Christians feel a certain affinity towards Israel due to a shared Judeo-Christian heritage.

What's really infinitely more likely is that israel and usa share some common enemies, and usa doesn't really have all that many geopolitical allies in the region to chose from. I don't know why everyone reaches for weird religious conspiracies when the obvious geopolitical explanation will do.

Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by pandaman on Thursday September 01, 2022 @09:07AM (#32675738)
These are state laws. Alabama, for example, does not share enemies with Israel nor is it involved in any geopolitics. So it's extremely unusual to have such laws even in one state and in this case there are dozens of such states. Do you know of any other state laws concerning other US allies, say KSA?
Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by bayindirh on Thursday September 01, 2022 @06:56AM (#32674636)
Maybe it's because that the religion is one of the most important factors which formed these alliances and adversaries throughout the history.

Without these cultural and religious layers, what remains is same for everyone. A human body.

Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by ThunderSizzle on Thursday September 01, 2022 @07:18AM (#32674801)
Sure, you are correct.

But that also means Jews/Christians have a very rocky road together. Technically, "Christians" performed the Holocaust, for starters.

It begs a question - when you add in Islam, why do Christians and Jews suddenly become political allies?

Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by simonh on Thursday September 01, 2022 @07:32AM (#32674915)
Because radical Islamists attack Christians and Jews equally. Actually they attack everyone that isn't a radical Islamist, including an awful lot of Muslims. In fact the vast majority of the victims of Islamist violence are other Muslims.

It's important to note that we throw around terms like The Muslims as though all Muslims and Christians, etc have the same beliefs and agenda, and that's clearly not the case.

Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by bayindirh on Thursday September 01, 2022 @07:43AM (#32675013)
Today's mainstream religion is something entirely different from yesteryear. I'm a Muslim, who has good friends who have faith in any and almost every religion (excl. extremists).

The subject is completely invisible to us except when we discuss interesting parts of the religions we believe.

I for one believe that religion is an ethics and conscience system, and when practiced correctly, all of them points to the same direction, albeit with different narratives and paths.

Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by foogazi on Friday September 02, 2022 @10:49AM (#32691506)
> when you add in Islam, why do Christians and Jews suddenly become political allies?

Goes back to the Crusades, the Islamic invasion of Europe and the fall of Constantinople

It’s not like Christianity embraced Jews either, but they did not present an existential threat

Re:Google employee resigns after ‘retaliation’ for protestin... by panick21_ on Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:08PM (#32681469)
The reality of course is that being so strongly interlinked with Israel is one of the major reasons why everybody in the region hates them. The Israel alliance is geopolitically harmful to the US.