You only think Sam Fields is a “good one” because you haven’t spent time with him. Believe me, he is far from good.

You are presumably an educated adult who believes that if he puts the letter “O” between a “G” and a “D” that an all powerful invisible being will be displeased. And yet you don’t think of yourself as a fool.

Of course it could be worse, you might be one of those idiots who believes there will be a Judgment Day and that two key issues will be “hats” and “sideburns”.

Fundamentalist Jews, (Orthodox) like all fundamentalists (Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Mormons, etc) have at least one thing in common—the subordination of women which is rationalized as putting them on a pedestal.

All of these rules for the so-called benefit of women are designed to keep them from developing their natural talents and rising up in the organization on the basis of meritocracy.

You remind me of a discussion I had in the late 1950’s. The manager of a Miami car dealership was explaining to me how the “coloreds’ don’t want too much book learnin’ and did want separate water fountains. He grabbed the janitor who was a 70 something Black man and had him endorse the boss’s views. He assured me that being a janitor was as good as it gets. It was a cringe moment.

Your Bible reveals a god who is a vicious, paranoid, arbitrary and caprious character who is obsessed with crap like shellfish (everyone at Red Lobster must die) and uppity women who want to bump uglies when they feel like it. Burn them alive.

Of course the reality is that these rules were written by guys whose moile took too much off the top. Or perhaps they were confused about why they were getting a chubby every time they thought of Joseph in his Cloth of Many Colors. They needed to feel better about themselves. Thus, we have the oppressing women.

A real man, who is secure in his masculinity, does not need to invent rules to subordinate women.

I am afraid, my dear Ben, it is a little late for you and anyone else who would go out of his way to pick a religious belief system in which oppression of the opposite sex is the central social condition.