Pipes says that many Islamic schools are spreading extremist ideas and that they work to instill in their students an unhealthy notion that the only thing that matters in their lives is their Islamic identity.

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Instead the Israelites are affirming their identity and their relationship with God by telling a story, a story whose moral can only be that God is reliable.

相反，犹太人是确定了他们的身份,和上帝的关系，通过讲述这个故事，故事的唯一教育意义便是，上帝是值得信赖的。

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