lesschumras,
You need to read carefully without assuming things between the lines. Nowhere did I say that all Jews have always been perfect and that there is no need for judicial remedy or laws to address wrongdoing.
Your response does not demonstrate as you said
1. “Our ancestors were ignorant peasants.” and 2. “Our ancestors could barely read the Aleph Bais.”
I can’t even contemplate how a Jew could call his Zeidas ignorant peasants. And as many am haartzim there may have been, that was never the rule. Our ancestors learnt the aleph bais from a young age, and that was by far the norm. Few of our Zeidas “could barely read the aleph bais.”
3. “They stayed frum out of habit.”
Despite your false conjecture, they stayed frum out of a love for Torah and Yiddishkeit.
4. that only 1% of the ancestors of ours were “talmedai chachamim”
FAR FAR greater than 1% of our Zeidas were talmidei Chachomim. Such a statement could only come from self-hatred.
5. THE JEWS BY HABIT GAVE UP THEIR FRUMKEIT
A minority for sure, and not as you imply the norm.
NOTHING on Aish’s site (or other sources) CHAS V’SHALOM impugn any of these things.