Reaction of secular Israelis :: Reader comments at Daniel Pipes

Submitted by Yaakov Watkins (United States), Jan 2, 2008 at 00:47

What strikes me as interesting is that 14% or 1/7th of secular Israelis see Sharon's illness as a divine punishment. Usually we think of secular Israelis as non-religious. Even anti-religious. We in the US might assume that they are atheists. But atheists don't believe in divine intervention.

Secular must mean something different in Israel than it does in the US.

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	Title	Commenter	Date	Thread
	Poo to Pat [90 words]	Peter Herz	Jan 31, 2008 09:09	119366
	Where's Divine Intervention when you really need it? Like with Olmert, the Jewish anti-Christ? [35 words]	DrRJP	Jan 3, 2008 20:55	117477
	Read the Book [198 words]	Abijah	Jan 5, 2008 12:34	117477
	apples and oranges [232 words]	John W McGinley	Jan 2, 2008 15:41	117365
	You said: "... what is wrong with an Israel being dominated by religious Jews?"... [213 words]	Ynnatchkah	Jan 3, 2008 02:54	117365
	Pat Robertson [120 words]	Bart Willruth	Jan 2, 2008 09:12	117333
	Mixed feelings about Pat Robertson's comments [254 words]	Rachel Garber	Dec 31, 2007 15:46	117235
	"Divine Intervention" [249 words]	Chef Mike	Dec 31, 2007 14:18	117226
	O Jerusalem, Jerusalem! [151 words]	Drew	Dec 31, 2007 11:11	117220
	"Religiousity" of Israelis [292 words]	Daniel Bairey	Dec 31, 2007 07:05	117207
	For a religious Jew, every act and event is by the Hand of God [555 words]	Ken Besig	Dec 31, 2007 05:50	117204
	To Ken Besig [192 words]	Abijah	Jan 5, 2008 13:11	117204
1	PAT ROBERTSON [68 words]	DAVID R. GROESBECK	Dec 30, 2007 20:08	117166
	God laughs at the nations:Psalm 2 [381 words]	Michael	Dec 30, 2007 19:36	117160
	Robertson may be right about God. If he is, he is negligent; complicent even [218 words]	Steve	Dec 30, 2007 18:31	117156
	Judgment or Coincidence? [279 words]	Roy Weinberg	Dec 30, 2007 17:31	117150
	DIVINE INTERVENTION [23 words]	MJ	Dec 31, 2007 10:35	117150
	Judgment or Coincidence? [558 words]	Jane	Mar 5, 2008 04:37	117150
	Pat Robertson arrogance [186 words]	janusz Kowalik	Dec 30, 2007 16:47	117145
	Not "Dividing" but Sub-Dividing The Promised Land [89 words]	Mike Ramirez	Dec 30, 2007 15:16	117138
	Divine intervention and Pat Roberston's remark on Ariel Sharon [144 words]	Eugene McCarley	Dec 30, 2007 14:46	117135
	Reaction of secular Israelis [60 words]	Yaakov Watkins	Jan 2, 2008 00:47	117135
	Sharon's "Sin" [49 words]	Dan Friedman	Dec 30, 2007 13:53	117131
	Scandal of Scandals! [307 words]	David Sabghir	Dec 30, 2007 13:31	117129
	You said it so well. And, critics to Pat Robertson come as a shot Israelis' and Jew's feet [299 words]	Ynnatchkah	Dec 31, 2007 00:54	117129
	Reply to ynnatchkah [343 words]	David Sabghir	Dec 31, 2007 18:42	117129
	DESTINY [117 words]	MJ	Dec 30, 2007 12:51	117124
	Now Olmert has prostate problems [54 words]	James Burke	Dec 30, 2007 12:38	117119
	Warriors vs. Politicians [232 words]	Moshe Mones	Dec 30, 2007 12:38	117118
	Divine Intervention [135 words]	Marvin Kravetsky	Dec 30, 2007 12:29	117117
	I Love Pat Robertson. [170 words]	Ynnatchkah	Dec 29, 2007 22:23	117101