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Feb 8 4 tweets 1 min read
so much supposedly leftist discourse on here is

I don't have the thing, so NO ONE should have the thing

instead of

I don't have the thing, let's get everyone the thing

the former isn't leftism, it's nihilism
honestly, y'all spend WAY too much time listening to the white male leftists who claim that if a woman buys a vibrator she's a class traitor
sorry

*the white male leftists who claim that if a woman buys a vibrator she's a class traitor, while gesturing with their Xbox controller
see also:

"eat the rich but what we mean is eat anyone, especially if they're marginalized, who manages to get a savings account"

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Feb 8
Also there’s always this tone Christians take about this shit like Jews saw tax collectors as some sort of unclean aliens living among them and xenophobocally despised them when actually they were angry with them the same way you’d be if a family member started extorting you.
Like Christians REALLY want to associate tax collectors with lepers, as if Jews of the time were less capable than we are of understanding a distinction between quarantining people they believed to have a communicable disease and shunning wealthy, abusive grifters.
Or they want to associate tax collectors with marginalized people today, as if they were equivalent to disabled people or queer people being failed by society, instead of rich people exploiting their own people on behalf of an occupying power.
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Feb 4
So in reading Christian commentary on the parables, and its wild and ugly claims about first-century Jews and Judaism, I often find myself wondering how they got there.

And I think I've discerned the process.

Short thread:
It goes a little something like this:

A) Christians receive traditional interpretations of what the parables "mean." E.g. the prodigal son means you should forgive people, the good Samaritan means you should help people in need. These meanings are, generally, banal.
B) Rather than reading the parables as *stories,* Christians read them as fables with a moral. They read them through the lens of that moral instead of approaching them without a predetermined interpretation.
Read 16 tweets
Feb 4
Okay, time for some more deep dives into weird Christian claims about Judaism found in commentary on the story of the prodigal son.

Full article here:

betterparables.com/fathers-and-so…
Here's yesterday's thread on all the claims that a Jewish father would never run to greet his son.

Now, let's look at some of the claims around the son's request for early inheritance.
Read 28 tweets
Feb 3
Okay, as promised, let's take a Twitter look at all the weird Christian commentary and claims about first-century Jews centered around the father (and hypothetical villagers) in the prodigal son story.
For those who haven't been playing along at home, we've also looked at their wacky claims about Jews and shepherds, both that Jews hated shepherds and that Jewish shepherds broke lambs' legs to teach them not to stray. (?!)

And the preceding page on my site talks about a LOT of weird claims in Christian commentary on the story of the woman who loses her coin (although it looks like I didn't actually do a Twitter thread on those; I should).
Read 46 tweets
Jan 20
I also think the tendency to demonize Jews this way stems from dissonance within Christian thought about how to view Jesus’s teachings. They’re trying to have it both ways:

-Jesus’s teachings are simple and self-evidently true

-Jesus’s teachings are radical and hard to follow
So on one hand, if Jesus’s teachings are simple teachings about compassion and they’re self-evident if you think about them and they all just boil down to the Golden Rule, you’d have to be either incredibly stupid or incredibly evil not to agree with them.
The problem with that, of course, is basic compassion and the golden rule are hardly unique to Jesus. So if you reduce it that much, he has nothing substantive to say.
Read 38 tweets
Jan 20
American Jews: wow we would like to not have gunmen attacking synagogues in Texas
gentiles: fuck you, Israel is an apartheid state

Christians: lol we made a caucus with no Jews on it to support Israel
gentiles: this is somehow the Jews' fault
just a gentle reminder that:

1) cheering on gunmen attacking US synagogues actually feeds INTO Israeli propaganda that they're the only safe place for Jews, so if your anti-Zionism doesn't include making the diaspora safer for Jews, it's not really about Palestinian rights
and just another gentle reminder that:

2) American Christians are FAR more likely to unquestioningly support the actions of Israel than American Jews, so if the only Zionism you focus on is what you *assume* is coming from Jews, helping Palestinians is probably not your priority
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