I hope the apology was an “apology;” that is, there are some objectively factual things I shouldn’t have said from the pulpit, and that was one of them…
What does that have to do with a discussion about American politics?
It sure is. Who’s saying that?
Did I somehow mangle the quote i was replying to?
(It looks like this quote comes from this thread, from a user with your username somewhere in the last 24 hours.)
Nor have I.
The part about social justice being “baked into the worldview” refers to the fact that in general Jews do not look to a reward in heaven but focus on tikkun olam, namely “mending a broken world,” i.e., THIS world, the one we all live in. Israeli politics notwithstanding.
Israeli politics =/= what all Jews think
In fact, the popular wisdom says that if you have two Jews, you’ll have at least three opinions on anything.
This is a complete non sequitur.
I am not the one making generalized statements about religious types and their worldview.
I love the no true Scotsman stuff!
At the risk of continuing a hijack, it is not a non sequitur.
Mr. Bravo made an unsupported claim, @The_Librarian called him out on it.
Hell, for that matter social justice is built right into Christianity also, but far too many Christians either ignore it or even do the opposite.
@Johnny_L.A alluded to some of the details.
It’s ironic that we’re talking about this in a Trump thread, as he’s extremely non-religious, despite being the Mango Messiah for a lot of extremely radical Christian Nationalists.
(He’s practically the golden calf of Exodus made flesh.)
I saw a comment on a Yahoo article yesterday, by a guy whose username was Trump_Is_Lord. I mean, Trump is literally this moron’s MESSiah!
My post was pretty clearly a personal anecdote, though American Jewry’s overall progressive tilt is well-documented political reality.
Turning that into “oh so you’re saying all Jews are inherently good” is confusing at best, and asking me to defend or integrate Israeli politics into my worldview is the standard dual loyalty canard.
That’s what I meant too. I wasn’t speaking in a figurative sense, I meant it in a literal one.
I strongly recommend the excellent documentary Q: Into the Storm. (It is streaming on Max.) Part of the series was devoted to talking about (and interviewing) the evangelical people on social media pushing Trump as a Christian prophet and chosen of God who is meant to lead all mankind into righteousness, etc. It’s really scary stuff, and these aren’t just lone kooks. These are social media influencers with groups of followers and podcasts successful enough to make a career out of.
It’s genuinely terrifying. 
Here is a clip of a SovCit who starts literally praying to Donald Trump during a traffic stop going bad, I’ve linked to the whole clip for context but skip to 3:11 to get to the good part.
“Our Father, who art in Florida…”?
Practically??
Eh… while I’m usually not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to SovCit types, I don’t think this is what would conventionally be considered “prayer”.
I’m assuming this is a video from when Trump was president. I suppose it could be after Biden became president too, though, if he subscribed to the QAnon theory that Trump was still the legal president working in the shadows.
Right before he starts asking Trump to save him, he says “somebody tag in Donald Trump”, which I think means he wants someone to alert Trump of what’s happening in the video. So he might think that, if he’s been tagged in, the president will take one look at the video, grasp quickly that the SovCit is being done wrong, get on the phone to the local PD and clean things up for him just as soon as he sees what’s going on.
I’m not saying he’s not a nut; I’m just saying he may not be a heretic to boot.
A crying zombie? 
Jeez, I hate those!
I had a horrific thought earlier. If Trump wins re-election he will talk about how he now has two numbers, 45 & 47, all the time. He will never shut up about how special that is and, yeah, one other president had two but nobody remembers him and he didn’t get more votes than anyone in history so only Trump really deserves two numbers, 45 & 47, but he just calls himself 47 because it’s a more beautiful number because it’s bigger but 45 is beautiful, too, and he is the best president ever. The merchandising alone will bring on nightmares. We can’t let that happen.
Preach it!
So, can we campaign on “If you elect Donnie, he’ll claim ‘Ron DeSaniflush came to me with tears in his eyes…’, and no one wants to picture that. Vote Biden.”
“I call him Ron DeSantaClaus, because he promises ridiculous things, things nobody can actually provide, plus he has a naughty or nice list but really folks, everyone is on his naughty list. So sad. If I had a list almost everyone would be on my nice list, because I’m a nice guy, most people say I’m too nice but what can I say, I’m just a nice guy, but I’d probably put Ron DeSantaClaus on my naughty list. It’s a short list because I’m a nice guy.”
I expect to hear that meandering word salad he considers to be biting wit in the future.