I had more to say about this, but I went to bed instead, so:
Christians like to claim that Jesus's message is both radical and hard to accept and follow. Generally speaking, that's laughable, but let's take it at face value for a moment in the context of the prodigal son. (1/x)
Let's leave aside that the idea that it's hard to be Christian in a hegemonically Christian society, built to accommodate Christian norms and ensure Christian comfort, with a church every two blocks that will bend over backwards to get you to join, is somehow "difficult."
Christians claim Jesus's message is radical, difficult to hear, and harder to follow.
And then they make it the most banal, obvious, commonplace thing ever. Forgive people. Love your neighbors.
Christian parable interpretation is an antisemitic Mobius strip, a thread:
Christians: Jesus told the parable of the Prodigal Son as a rebuke to the Pharisees because they hated the idea of forgiving sinners, as evidenced by the fact that they objected to him dining with tax collectors.
Jews: no...? that's not how ANY of that worked?
The Pharisees most likely were objecting to the fact that Jesus was extending forgiveness to people who hadn't actually shown any sign that they were even sorry for doing something that harmed their neighbors.
like, the tax collectors hadn't quit being tax collectors?
Started catching up on the CW's Nancy Drew after getting like 4-5 weeks behind.
Y'all, this show is all over the map on all KINDS of things, but I'm going to talk about the Jewish stuff because of course I am.
okay, so on one hand, we have a dude named Ace, who's the only white dude in the Drew Crew, which is nice, and he's also a very nice boy who's fluent in ASL because he has a Deaf dad
And then, Ace, who's just been this very nice, helpful guy in the background for most of the show, goes home to have Shabbat dinner with his dad.
Like, men resent every bit of power or independence women get, especially if they're making money from men.
Women are influencers with male audiences?
No, no, replace them with literal sex dolls that men puppet. Keep that money in the hands of men.
No matter how well women, as entertainers, divest themselves of their personalities and provide an alluring blank slate for men to project upon, men always have that bothersome knowledge that there IS actually a person in there.
I don’t really know the origins of this one, but I can tell you how it’s played out in the modern era.
So, the Victorians liked to divide humanity up into broad racial groups, which supposedly were “scientific” and were supposed to have various genetic attributes. (Phrenology was a big part of this.)
If I see another fucking "millennials are causing a housing shortage by buying houses" headline...
like sorry, last month we were wrecking the world by living in our parents' basements, so I'm having trouble keeping up with what we are and aren't supposed to do
and somehow, weirdly, it's millennials causing the housing shortage problem by buying homes and not
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the older people not selling their houses?
Like I don't know how to explain to these headline writers that "supply" is part of the supply and demand equation