You know has an atheist I don't want to see any secular politics influenced by any kind of what to me is a history fantasy book at best nor its translations and reinterpretations.
Just look at your clashing over passages and what they mean. I have seen this discussion before and that discussion had the added bonus of one participant going off a far older version (Hebrew I believe, for the Older Testament obviously) complete with treatise on the nuances of certain words in certain phrases during certain times when this particular part was certainly written which totally completely changed the meaning of the whole passage and all those English translations are just utterly wrong and if you aren't basing your argument on that really, really old version you can just stop arguing now, because you are wrong anyway and the Rabbi you talked to who used the same version but interpreted it differently is wrong, too.
A wars over oil and other resources is at least rationally approachable when there isn't an "But my supernatural entity (which is the only one holding all truth) said so, some thousand years ago when the world looked completely different". Same for discrimination of any kind.
