Chassidic master Rabbi Mendel of Kotzk once referred to a certain rabbi as ah tzaddik in peltz — "a righteous person in a fur coat."
The Kotzker explained: When it is winter and it's freezing cold, there are two things one can do. One can build a fire, or one can wrap oneself in a fur coat. In both cases, the person is warm. But when one builds a fire, all who gather round will also be warmed. With the fur coat, the only one who is warmed is the one who wears the coat.
So it is regarding spiritual warmth — one can be a tzaddik in a fur coat....
Also, when one wears a fur coat, the many animals that died to make the coat suffered unspeakable torture and pain. If you don't believe it, google "animals steel traps fur farms cruelty". The story could have said "warm coat", not "fur coat", as though a fur coat is in any way acceptable, condoned, normal.
It’s a religious belief and its there story to there religion and you should not be saying anything about it. If you have something to say keep it to yourself due to this being offensive
The fur coat in this story was acceptable, condoned and normal. In fact peltz specifically refers to a fur coat. I dare say warm coat doesn't have the same feeling at all.
Reminds me of a woman's obituary in the paper once. It said
"She never was offended because she never took offense."
I am an Orthodox Jew. Nowhere in Judaism is there any rule that one must wear fur, And no one in any religion has the right to be unnecessarily cruel to animals, even if their religion says it's ok..