Jesus Family fled to Egypt to avoid Herod's order that baby boys be killed. Very likely they return to Nazareth (which is in Galilee, Herod was in Judea) after Herod's death in 4 AD. At this point Jesus would have been a 3-4 y/o...
3. "Grows up breaking religious laws"
Going to need a source here bud. There is no passage that says Jesus grew up breaking religious laws.
When he is grow Jesus cites David eating concecrated bread as a precedent to say "the law was made for man not man for the law"
But...
4. This was when he is an adult. He didn't grow up doing this as far as we know. The Bible doesn't say, and there's no historical record outside the Bible that offers any insight.
Now...
Lefty's do this wierd thing where they re-tell the story of Jesus in a really wierd way...
5. They redescribe Jesus life using terms that are important to lefty political ideology (which BTW, is what they accuse conservstives of doing)
They de-emphasize things the Bible emphasizes (like Jesus Jewishness) and the emphasize unclear or minor details (like his skin color)
6. These progressives redescribe and retell the story of Jesus in terms that are relevant to 20th century American political leftism, then they act as though the story of Jesus is a vindication of their political ideology.
THIS IS THE *EXACT* THING ACCUSE CONSERVATIVES OF DOING
7. Every time they do this say "you are retelling the story in a way which emphasizes background details and you redescribe those details in terms relevant to modern American leftism to bolster your political ideology. You're doing exactly what you claim others do"
8. Never ever let them away with this. Ever. Call it out every time.
/fin
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For those of you keeping track of the rise in communism around the world...
Russia is currently wearing jerseys with the Russian acronym for "USSR" at the Channel One Cup in Moscow.
The USSR saw sports as a way of demonstrating the superiority of their communist system. It was never just a game for them. They always said that their communist system would produce superior results and sports was a way to prove that.
Hockey is also, for Russians a sort of...
Barometer for the health of the nation. Hockey is expensive (equipment and rinks are pricey) so succesful hockey teams are seen as proof of the health of the economic system, and the cultivation of talented youth is seen as a sign of the health of the people as a whole...
Those are the groups he want to wield goverment power against... conservative Journalists, Politicians, Intellectuals...
( correction: I said hate *speech* laws when I should have said hate *crime* laws)
That said, Hotez advocating the use of hate crime laws against "aggression" when he doesn't define what counts as aggression is the very form of authoritarianism the he claims to be against.
Jesus specifically named the Pharisees in Matthew 23.
Also, I'm a Jew (an apostate, but still a Jew) and let me just say the whole liberal Christian "rehabilitation of the Pharisees" really misses the mark in terms of what Jesus is doing here and why.
Jesus is specifically going after Hypocrisy here, and he singles out the Pharisees by name.
The list of things Jesus calls out the Pharisees for is 7 (Mark Luke John) or 8 (Matthew), and as far as I can tell, they all relate to hypocrisy and valuing appearance over substance
Jesus also thought the Pharisees scholarly tradition created rules which Jesus saw putting additional and unnecessary burdens on people.
These additional rules are what Jesus is referring to when he talks about "patches" in this reference here:
1/ The woke will say everyone else's ideas, thoughts, and beliefs are hopelessly entangled in cultural biases.
However, the woke think wokeness is *NOT* hoplessly entangled in any cultural biases.
They exempt themselves from the exact charge that they level at everyone else...
2/ They will say claim that no one can have an objective viewpoint from which to make absolute statement, but they do not realize their own claims that they have no objectice viewpoint from which to claim that it is absolutely true that no one has an objective viewpoint...
3/ They will say "your views are polluted with cultural assumptions which you have mistaken for truth"...and then get very upset if you ask them whether or not wokeness is polluted with cultural assumptions which they have mistaken for truth.
Pic 1: @dukekwondc says @RevKevDeYoung's theology is white supremacy culture dressed up as theology.
Pic 2: Duke Kwon is upset any one would dismiss HIS work as anything but moral and theological reflection.
Duke demands we take him at face value while he reads others cynically
Duke Kwon wants people to give him the benefit of the doubt and grant that he's engaged in careful self-aware theological reflection. But he wants to treat other people suspiciously and assert that they are caught in the grip of cultural assumptions that they aren't even aware of
What Duke Kwon is saying is "I'm more self aware than you. I have moral and intellectual high ground because I know how I can be influenced by culture, so I can avoid having my views warped by culture. But you're not aware like I am so you're blinded by your cultural assumptions"
Perhaps we could read @mbird12's change of heart through the lens of the social forces at work in academia, and then say his stated justifications are post-hoc rationalizations to cover the fact his change of heart is an expression of how he's influenced by his culture?
Maybe we could read his change of heart as a capitulation to mainstream culture given the unpopularity of patriarchy in the west?
Now, I don't think we should do that because it isn't fair and it's utterly cynical to do so. But this *is* how the people he defends treat...
those they disagree with.
They demand charity but give none amd demand respect but dismiss and belittle those who disagree. They frame every disagreement as though it were a personal attack, while attacking the motives of those they disagree with.