In case you haven't guessed, I'm not religiously oriented. However, I'm for anything that helps people behave decently and helps them cope with all the inevitable tragedies of life, up to and including death. In my experience, anyway, most religions in America perform those functions more often than not.
Understand, I do not support Israel because it's a Jewish state. I am on its side because it is, one, a democracy in a part of the world where democracy is as alien as barbecued pork; two, it is a staunch ally of America; and, three, for over fifty years, although it has been besieged by terrorist states and fanatical killers, it has displayed remarkable restraint. It is a restraint that, I humbly confess, I could not duplicate in my wildest dreams.
So when I hear American Jews who, as often as not, are no more religious than I, dismiss Christian sympathizers, I say to them: "So you believe one thing about Jesus and they believe another. So what? Who cares? If it makes you happy, make a bet with an evangelical, and in a million years or whenever the great Hallelujah Day rolls around, one of you will owe the other one five bucks. In the meanwhile, in a world in which Israel's opponents out-number her supporters by at least five hundred-to-one, it's high time you learned to distinguish between friend and foe."