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>subversive
do you actually mean anything by this, some actual coherent critique, or did you just think it was a cool pejorative word to use in this context?
the idea that modern israel has no connection to ancient israel at all is historically lazy.
names, people, and places evolve, but the cultural, religious and ethnic threads are real.
maps don't create nations, nations create maps. the modern state of israel wasn't summoned out of thin air in 1948, it was the result of decades of political movement, historical memory and international negotiation.
there's no static "biblical israel" in the Bible either, it was always a complex fragmented entity, tribes kingdoms and exiles.
Christianity is subversive, but not likely in the way you meant it. it challenged roman imperialism, upended social hierarchies and redefined moral authority. but it doesn't subvert the west, it's what's defined it for millennia.
