“And if you’re a smart person, and you take the time to think about it, the religious messages often double up into political messages, and at that time in old Israel … religion and politics were basically one and the same thing, not least because there was no vote. ​‘When a man has no vote, no say, but he does have a national religion to adhere to, then of course he’ll want to reform the religious practises since that is the political system that he’s under at the time.”