On a Jewish and religious state

To the questioner who argues

There is no unreasonable assumption here. It is unreasonable in your eyes. But in the eyes of the religious public that is part of the state. The vision of secular Zionism is not the vision of religious Zionism. You are not the only one who exists in the world. When the state was founded, there was a public that did not want to finance the desecration of the Sabbath with its tax money. That is all, and besides, it is also legitimate in the eyes of that public that certain aspects of the Israeli public will preserve the tradition of the people of Israel (and in the eyes of that public, it also has a spiritual and religious significance, although Rabbi Michi disagrees). In Britain, too, there is enormous funding for the royal family because it is linked to English nationalism (and England is the core of Britain, after all). In fact, there is no country in the world that is not like this. In the US, prostitution is illegal, and not for progressive reasons. But for quasi-religious reasons (moral. of aesthetic morality. that is, of a life that is not promiscuous). In France, too, there is preservation with public money of aspects of ancient French nationalism. And not just funding. There are certainly also restrictive laws of the French public that are somehow related to nationalism and French culture and tradition.

Moreover, in the special case of Jews, in practice we see that the less tradition there is, the more the Jewish national identity is emptied of content (they begin to define a Jew according to the momentary interest) and later they end up with a lack of loyalty to the Jewish people or worse, a progressive identity that is anti-national in general and anti-Jewish in particular. And in a special way anti-Jewish.