I don't want to argue with you about the specifics of the Torah. You mentioned that you were Orthodox, I'll wager a Reformed Jew would tell me a very different interpretation. I'm glad you find comfort and wisdom in your Spiritual Practice. What I have been saying is that religion has been used as an instrument of social control. The Patrician class uses the belief in a better after life to convince the Plebians to suffer in this life. It may not be the case with Judaism, but you aren't the people that need to be controlled by a peacefull means. As I mentioned, the power elite have other means of dealing with mouthy Jews.

The basis of my argument is class struggle as discussed by Karl Marx, who was a Jew, BTW. In fact the post was kind of a joke to see if anyone recognized it as Marxist. No one did. Maybe you'z guys should get out more. Most of it was lifted directly from the writings of Marx, verbatim. I just changed the nouns from 'Marx believed' to 'I believe'.

What do they teach you kids in school these days!

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." John Stuart Mill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Oscar Wilde He who dies with the most toys is nonetheless dead.