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Excuse me. I think you mean that atheists and agnostics know more about religions *other than Christianity* than most *Christian* groups. There's only one non-Christian religious group listed on these results, and um... 
This headline is so grossly disingenuous. The survey is measuring, primarily, whether respondents know much about a *diversity* of religions. Christians and atheists/agnostics were roughly on par with knowledge about Christian stuff.
Atheists/agnostics scored a *little* bit better than Christians on knowledge of religions *other than Christianity*. Not nearly as well as Jews, though, which is unsurprising, since Judaism is one of those non-Christian religions.
My 4 year old has recently taken up cursing. Yesterday he referred to bedtime as a "fucking crisis."
My favorite replies to this are the parents @-ing each other. I see you, parents. Our kids are going to be best fucking buddies some day.
My SECOND favorite thing is the ratio of "OMG this is my kid" to "Things that didn't happen." Some of y'all are extremely careful with your language around your kids, and it really shows TBH.
1) The language of the GOP's amendment explicitly wraps together under "antisemitism in all it's forms" the use of tropes like Omar used a few days ago and also any form of boycotting Israel or anti-Israel sentiment. It's not Jews doing it, but Jews will be perceived as doing it
It is the goyish GOP, not Jewish people, who are EXPLICITLY equating anti-Israeli sentiment with antisemitism. But that doesn't matter. In one vote, the GOP have boxed the whole thing up in the false perception that Jewish people equate "anti-Zionism" with antisemitism.
2) The non-Jew President, the non-Jew Vice President and the non-Jew House GOP are going nuclear on Omar's comment. The backlash is WAY out of proportion. They're doing this all on their own - but it feeds the perception that Jews/Israel have disproportionate influence
Trying to keep this up - so, a short thread about Harbin, China and the Jewish community that thrived there in the early 20th century.
Personal note: my great-grandfather lived there for at least a few years in the early 20th century.
Personal note: my great-grandfather lived there for at least a few years in the early 20th century.
In 1898, Russia got permission from China to extend the Trans Siberian Railroad across Manchuria. The Czar was so eager to get the project rolling that he took a break from his usual violent antisemitism and offered Jews unrestricted rights if they moved to Manchuria
Harbin, which was a collection of small fishing villages at the time, was the most popular destination for Jews fleeing the pogroms and restrictions in the Pale of Settlement, and soon became the administrative center of the railroad project.
Netanyahu is terrible in lots of ways, and absolutely deserves criticism and resistance, but this is some antisemitic BS. A brief history of Ashkenazi last names, and why the fact that they sound Polish or Russian or German is meaningless...
Ashkenazi Jews have no tradition of using surnames. None. For almost all of Ashkenazi history people were known only by a given name and a patronymic. For example, Moishe ben (son of) Abraham.
This is still how we do Hebrew names, and up until the early 19th century that was the *only* way we did names. Jews didn't have family names that passed from generation to generation. So how do we have all these European sounding Jewish last names now?
