Israel is literally waging a war to expand borders, so yeah, maybe they want to be left alone in the sense that they won’t accept any state other than Israel existing in the end.

It’s … wild because this is part of the roots of the Jewish people being chased from their lands.

In a world where folks accepted other peoples gods but revered their own … the monotheistic Abrahamic religions fucked all that up.

The problem with believing in gods is that you think you are right. That makes other people wrong. And so it begins…

Why would you believe anything if you were going to believe you were wrong?

And that’s why you shouldn’t.

believing you are right is requisite to belief. acknowledgement that you might be wrong, in the existence of doubt, that’s maturity but it does not preclude the belief that you are right.

I think you’ve just talked yourself into a circle. You can’t both believe something and doubt it. Doubt is the opposite of belief.

What you’re talking about is possibly belief in belief. That’s the belief that you should believe, or belief that you do believe. That is not the same as actual belief.