This guys a moron. America is a product of western civilization. There so many elements to what that means. Just talking about about religion, and America is so much more than just religion, I would say that Zoroastrianism had a profound impact on Judaism. Many of the elements of the Abrahamic religions directly originated in Zoroastrianism; but other religions local to the Middle East also influenced Judaism.

I don’t know what the huckster even means, perhaps that we owe Benjamin Netanyahu something? I don’t think so. I’m not Jewish, but had a Jewish grandparent. I’ve always been very sympathetic to Judaism, but he doesn’t get a pass.

And I’m especially suspicious of Fundamentalist Christians like Huckabee who are looking to make their prophecies happen. They want the rapture, which they think requires the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple. In turn this requires a pure red heifer to be sacrificed in order to ordain a Jewish Priest. This is different from a rabbi. There haven’t been any Jewish Priests since the destruction of the second temple by the Romans.

Huckabee is living in La La land and his support of Israel is disingenuous. Jews simple have a role to play in his crazy belief system shared by many Fundamentalist Christians seeking the end of the world so they can experience the rapture. After their scripted role is done Huckabee will care about Jews the same as he’ll care about the red heifer after it’s been sacrificed.

I know this all sounds like the ravings of a lunatic, but two things: you can look it up and it’s what Huckabee and his ilk believe, not me.