I’m hardly all that religious but I found this article about priests in Jerusalem regularly getting spat on by Ultra-Orthodox Jews really disturbing.
As one commentator noted, I wonder how Bill O’Reilly would have reacted to this happening in Berkley.
Hyper-fundamentalist anybody is disturbing, stupid, ugly, dangerous, odious, and pathetic.
There are places where the ultra-Orthodox Jews will throw rocks at cars which are being driven on the Sabbath. Doesn’t matter if the driver doesn’t belong to a faith which forbids doing work on the Sabbath; these particular ultra-Orthodox jackasses do, and (most absurd!) will violate their own rule by throwing rocks on the Sabbath!
Put them in the same box with Muslim terrorists, Christian terrorists, Hindu terrorists, and atheist terrorists…then padlock the box and drop it into a volcano somewhere.
Trinopus
Yeah, Jerusalem has a serious religious nutjob problem.
Well, shit. How long has this been going on?
A few thousand years.
Buh dum tsh.
I’ve heard the Judean Popular People’s Front are spitters.
But I may have misheard.
It’s been getting worse over the past few decades, and has been exacerbated by secular flight.
How about those monks and nuns who are always setting themselves on fire? Spitting on them would be helpful, yes?
Not if you’ve been drinking.
Can we just condemn spitting in general as a universally disgusting, unnecessary, unsanitary practice? Then spitting ON anything, including priests, is just a matter of degree.
How else are you supposed to get rid of the tobacco juice?
Well, many people would object that swallowing is even more digusting, unnecessary and unsanitary. But since both viewpoints are equally valid, I think the best policy is to always offer a courtesy tap.
Swallowing is an entirely private act that doesn’t put anything disgusting into the environment. I don’t have to ever become aware of someone else swallowing, I don’t really care if something unsanitary or disgusting is going in in someone else’s interior.
As for tobacco juice … Uh … Generating tobacco juice or betel lead juice or whatever is itself unnecessary, disgusting, and unsanitary, so we’ve got a neat little convergence there.
In my area, depositing one’s tobacco juice in a styrofoam cup or a plastic bottle is acceptable. (Yes, I have seen this happen in an office environment. Nasty.)
It’s the People’s Front of Judea that are the real menace.
I didn’t realize there was/is a secular flight from Jerusalem. I can see where that can add volatility to a tense situation.
Good to know there are other options if an Armenian orthodox archbishop isn’t immediately available.
How do you see this playing out for the future of Israel, given that the ultra-orthodox and ultranationalists have a birthrate that is extravagantly higher than that of secular Jews? Me, if I were in your boots, I would be a mite concerned.
Seriously, you’re wooshed by this ? Even with the “courtesy tap” line ?