I don’t think it’s stupid at all.
A lot of Jews are completely clueless about what exactly Christianity is. Most are confused about their own religion to be honest.
Christians get a really bad rep in Israel.
Agreed.
At least I have met hundreds of Christians and hundreds of Jews who understand very little indeed about their own faith traditions (or, for that matter, any other faith traditions).
This is mostly a reflection of the “secularization” of modern society, and I believe parental neglect plays a significant role, too.
I am OKAY with somebody growing up and deciding that his family’s faith tradition is not for him/her. That decision can and should be entertained as an adult, after learning what the faith is about.
I am very sad about children growing up without any meaningful religious (or MORAL) instruction, whether Protestant, Catholic, or Jewish, etc. To me, this is like raising kids without providing them adequate nutrition to grow healthy and strong.
Bad consequences include:
1. a poor understanding of life
2. often poor or even awful moral values, too
3. any spiritual consequences your faith tradition teaches,
and
4. lacking any other faith or philosophical mooring or raison d-etre in (and for!) their lives, these hungry souls often turn to the worst of materialistic or worldly “causes” for meaning in their lives. You see this with some of those sitting in “liberal” churches or “reform” synagogues, and among those that have walked away from either.
In the last few years, these “causes” or substitute-religions (if you will) tend to mostly be far leftist ideologies like communism/socialism/”progressive-ism”/Nazi-ism, or the like.
IN other words, some of the worst or at least more destructive people in our society.
I have a buddy that worked there. He said most Israelis don’t really like us.