mikehall:
Are we talking about the same government that provides funding to brochers so they can learn all day without getting a job???Sounds pretty nice to me…
So what you are saying is, since they provide funding for yeshivos and kollelim that makes them nice? They also let chazir be sold in stores across the country. Do you condone that as well?
What does one thing have to do with the other. The fact that they help support yeshivos does not give them a hand into how we are mechanech our children. Hence Chinuch Atzmai. It does not give them a right to say we demand your children to place them in makomos sakanos. It does not give them a right to force our children to be in a place where they may have to be mechalel Shabbos.
And no I don’t think I should be learning Rav Kook yet since I don’t feel confident that I will be able to filter out the krum parts. For now I have to leave them aside just as the gedolim that I follow left his side.