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25 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Christmas movie/song tropes that subtly reinforce Christian hegemony and/or supremacy:

* Everyone NEEDS Christmas, without Christmas people would be literally unable to be good/experience generosity of spirit/understand love/know what peace and joy are
* Christmas is totally secular and for everyone, pay no attention to these subtle allusions to Jesus!
* True Believers(tm) are inherently better people than Doubtful Cynics. A Doubtful Cynic can be transformed from a Bad person to a Good person by being shown the True Meaning of Christmas.
* Not having Christmas is the worst thing imaginable, the ultimate tragedy. ANYTHING is justifiable to 'save' Christmas. A world without Christmas would be an unimaginable hellscape.

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Villain Gaon ▪️▪️▪️▪️🔥▪️🕯️🕯️🕯️ Profile picture
28 Dec
I have seen (and received) a lot of advice on here for people who grew up distanced from their Jewishness who want to start practicing/observing that goes like this:

Start with something small, and gradually expand.

It's very practical advice, but I think it's not quite right.
Don't get me wrong, I think that starting a Jewish practice with simple things you know you can maintain is a great idea. Jumping into the deep end of a time consuming, lifestyle altering, intensely complicated practice is setting yourself up for failure.
It's the "gradually expand" part that I think is a little off. I think setting the expectation that the initial small, maintainable practice *must* expand is also setting yourself up for failure. It assumes, from the beginning, that what you want to do when you begin isn't enough
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Villain Gaon ▪️▪️▪️▪️🔥▪️🕯️🕯️🕯️ Profile picture
11 Dec
If you're going around telling Jews who don't observe exactly like you do that they're the bad guys in the Hanukah story, I want you to go look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself - do you honestly think that Matthatias wouldn't have run you through with a sword too?
There isn't a Jew alive today that the Hasmoneans wouldn't view as "Hellenized". They'd be wrong, about nearly every one of us, but that is absolutely what they would think if they saw any of us, from any community or tradition.
They'd be wrong because there is a difference between abandoning our traditions and beliefs, and allowing our traditions and beliefs to grow and change and adapt as we move through time and space. There is a difference between assimilation and evolution.
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8 Dec
The thing about describing countries or people as being completely devoid of religious association by calling them 'secular' is that 'secular' is, itself, a term originating within Christianity, based on Christian texts and connoting a Christian perspective on religion.
Secular is from the Latin 'saeculum', meaning "a generation" or "an age". It used to mean within a period of about 100 years. In the Latin translation of the Christian bible there's a phrase, saecula saeculorum, literally "an age of ages", often translated as "forever and ever".
Christian doctrine holds that God exists outside of time, and sometime in the medieval period Christians started using "secular" to mean within time (of a particular age) and therefore separate from God.
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Villain Gaon ▪️▪️▪️▪️🔥▪️🕯️🕯️🕯️ Profile picture
7 Dec
I don't know that I have ever seen a more perfect summation of how "secular culture" under Christian hegemony is anything but secular than this excerpt from an article about giving up Hanukkah because you aren't religious. Image
Secular is when you can't continue your families Jewish traditions because you don't believe in God, but you can definitely continue your family's Christian traditions anyway because Reasons.
This passage in particular kills me. What beliefs do you think you need? If you long for your traditions, then just .... Do your traditions. Get the menorah out of the basement. It's yours. You already have it. Image
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2 Dec
Also, I resent the implication that my stance is based in ignorance, or is "unserious". I'm perfectly aware that evangelism has always been a part of Christianity, and the references to it in the gospels. Neither of those things have any bearing on my points.
The internal rationalizations for offensive and, in some instances, antisemitic behavior by Christians aren't relevant to how that behavior impacts non-Christians. Telling me *why* you can't respect me doesn't excuse the disrespect.
It's precisely *because* I know how deeply rooted in Christian tradition this is that I feel it's important to speak about it in strong, uncompromising terms. This isn't a tangential thing that some few Christians do. It's a major thing that has a huge effect on the world.
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26 Nov
SUPREME COURT: No limiting church attendance to protect people from a pandemic, people have a right to religious gathering even if it puts others in danger.

GOD: build 👏 a 👏 parapet 👏 for 👏 your 👏 roof 👏
"You shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not being bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it"

Dev. 22:8

We are *commanded* to take positive action to protect others from harm caused by our negligence. Stay home.
When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox is not to be punished.
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