"... I imagine an entire generation fed up with their parents' and teachers' conventional obeisance to boring, rote-driven, hypocritical religion. (Think about learning holiness from a pastor who, you later learn, has been seducing women who come to him in profound grief after their husbands' deaths, or has been seducing/coercing young boys into sex while proclaiming eternal damnation for those who desire same-sex marriage.)"
An entire generation? Wouldn't that require, I don't know...at least HALF of ALL pastors to be guilty of sexual perversion?
So maybe the primary blame for such a slobbery program as the Roseanne talk-show belongs in the behavior of much of established, official American religion.
Did any of you read this, or were you just pleased that someone hung up on Roseanne? I expect idiocy and misunderstanding--if not outright hatred--of faith from the likes of Mz Barr et al. The fact that the good rabbi is being given a pass for stating the same but dressing it up intellectually is disgusting.
What a mess. I see nothing worthy of applause here.
Well said. The rabbi's broad-brush hatred for Christianity, along with his blame of elements within the organized church for the social depravity that spawns shows such as Rosanne's, would have made him fit right in with the discussion that he supposedly deplores.