Religious Symbolism in Israeli Education
How, how could this happen?
Well, because for some Israelis, a significant number of
Israelis, Christian iconography is considered deeply offensive, in fact,
the most
offensive. So offensive that in some Israeli religious schools,
the
plus sign is not used in math.
The plus sign, you know, that connotes addition.
Why? Because it looks like a cross,
and that's considered too offensive for the eyes of schoolchildren, and
so an inverted T is used. That's a fact. You can look it up.
There's only one other instance we've seen of this in the world,
and that's in ISIS-run madrassas, where the cross was also
considered offensive. This is not true
in any normal Muslim country.
They use plus signs,
but not in Israeli religious schools.
So
everybody is allowed to have their own religious views and to find other people's
symbols repugnant, but it might be useful for
Christians in the United States to know what they are funding and making excuses
for.
But of course, they don't know this because this
information somehow
hasn't reached them, and if they're watching CBN, they're told,
"Don't pay
attention. You must be liberal."
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