Ultra-Orthodox Jews keep protesting

Seems like every other day Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Isreal are protesting something. This week it’s the arrest of an Orthodox woman who was slowly starving her child to death. It’s believed she has a form of Munchausen syndrom, keeping her child sick in order to gain sympathy from others. Ultra-Orthodox Jews are extreme issolationists, and consider any governmental interference in their affairs worthy of protest. In this case, they’ve taken the side of the mother, despite the fact that the mother had even tried to disconnect her child’s feeding tubes at the hospital.

The hilarious thing about this situation is that it embodies the major problem of religious belief; that it’s often impossible to differenciate between serious mental illness and strong religiosity. The two carry the same symptoms: intense paranoia, irrational behavior, and feelings of prosecution. Rather than be horrified by the neglect of a child, the protesters are outraged that the government became involved in “their affairs”. These are the same assholes that threw dirty dipers and stones at police for opening a parking structure on a Saturday. Clearly, they are a resonable bunch.

I’m sick and tired of having to pretend that I respect the idiotic beliefs of deeply delusional humans. It’s one thing to hold your beliefs privately, but quite another to force others to live the way you think we should. I would ask them kindly to fuck off, but these morons are too far up their own asses to notice that the rest of the world does not give a shit about their backwards ideology.

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