The New Passover of the Judeo-Christian West
Hopefully by now you’ve heard that more than 20,000 Palestinian children are confirmed dead in Israel’s defensive Gaza war. That’s just since October of last year, and it’s just the number of confirmed child deaths in Gaza, excluding civilian women and men. The full number of dead children is surely much higher. Their violent deaths are so regular that my team and I at the Vulnerable People Project are unable to keep up-to-date, despite our close monitoring of the situation.
I say you’ve hopefully heard of these deaths. But you haven’t spoken of them. Why?
I’ll tell you why.
It’s because you have chosen to live under the authority of a new religious faith. It’s not Jewish or Christian, but it wears the skin of the Judeo-Christian West. And unlike the authentic old Christendom or the faith of the People of God, this new religion claims no personal sacrifices on the part of its adherents.
All it requires is that you participate in one ritual: support the current regime of the state of Israel. Profess—if not vocally then at least tacitly, as you probably do—that Israel’s every action is morally right.
For free Americans, with all our bold “diversity of opinion,” that one commandment can seem hard at first. But especially for beleaguered conservatives, so often excluded and ridiculed, the ben
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