fascinating things that I, a Jew, did not know and have learned about Judaism from reading Christian commentaries on the parables of the lost coin, sheep, and sons:

-Jews are super-legalistic, but the penalty for telling a story anyone didn't like was immediate stoning, no trial
-if a son did anything a Jewish father didn't like, the Jewish dad immediately performed a ceremony that cut his son off from the family
-Jewish fathers didn't express affection for their children
-100% of Jewish siblings hated one another because of competition for inheritance
-Jews hated shepherds, despite pretty much every important person in Jewish foundational peoplehood stories being a shepherd
-if a Jewish woman misplaced a coin, she'd be stoned for adultery because losing money was the same as sexual promiscuity
-Jewish mothers never involved themselves in disputes between their children, or disputes between their husband and their children
-Jewish women were confined to the house all day and not allowed to come outside
-Jewish shepherds broke lambs' legs to teach them to not to stray
-the only reason any Jew would ever obey any rule is to buy their way into heaven

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