". . . and Jews display more tribalistic behavior. In fact, they talk of themselves as tribes."

That's historical, Rig. Judaism had its beginnings when all the earth's people were tribal. I don't know of any modern Jew who considers Jews to be tribal, save in retrospect. And the same goes for Christians.

Get current.

And as to Christians being "just 'Christians,'" at latest count, there were about 150 some odd denominations that call themselves "Christian." Major ones are first Catholic, then as a result of the Reformation, Lutheran, Anglican, Episcopalian, Methodist, Presbyterian, Baptist, and on and on, all the way to Kingdom of God, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, and things too weird to mention. Even among Lutherans, there is the German Lutheran, the Swedish Lutheran, the very conservative Missouri Synod, the much more liberal ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America), and a couple of others. All of these churches claim to follow the teachings of Jesus, but they split over differences of opinion on various major or minor theological matters—and sometimes over differences in political opinion.

So, to consider "religion" in general, or "Judaism" or "Christianity" as all some kind of giant monolith is just plain ignorant. It's especially erroneous to assume that all Christians are radical right-wing. The right-wingers seem to make a lot more noise, and the news media tends to focus on them rather than the far less outrageous liberal Christians, who actually comprise the majority.

Don Firth