not an insult, just making a point that having the same components as the topic does not necessarily make it on topic.
” Sorry if I come off too strongly……. it’s just too much of a stretch for me to accept.”
so don’t accept, there’s nothing wrong with that. Not accepting my view isn’t really a reason to be strong, I just experienced that from a friend, only tenfold, and am still trying to wrap my head around it.
I can respect you regardless of whether or not we agree, and I do. I am just floored to hear a frum yid say that about the land of E”Y as if it can really possibly be just another clump of geography with stats and numbers like any other in the big scheme of things. Never heard it said, and it shook me. But you aren’t alone so it must be a ‘thing’ (as my kids say)