The apotheosis of religious zealotry

This is what happens when a state is taken over by right-wing religious zealots:

"Settlers are awaiting the appearance of a ‘blemish free’ red cow, which, according to Judaism, is central to the prediction about the “end of times”, and therefore paves the way for the acceleration of the destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque to make way for the so-called Temple.

"The cow’s promise of reinstating Biblical purity to the world, is what far-right Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, has been waiting for before he storms Al-Aqsa Mosque.

"So important is the red cow, that the so-called Temple Institute has dedicated itself, since its inception in 1987, to find the cow. It went on to raise funds to transplant frozen embryos into the uterus of a cow raised in a local barn in an attempt to employ biotechnology to fulfill the biblical prophecy in a programme it called “Raising the Red Cow in Israel”."

This won't end well.

https://www.juancole.com/2023/08/religious-emboldens-extremism.html 

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