Microblog Memes

Did you know as a Jewish person, you are responsible for all the wars in the world? Because Mel seems to think so.

(I'm also Jewish, so I guess I'm also responsible. Must be our space lasers.)

While my wife and I were evangelical Christians in college we attended a few Jewish events for part of a religious study class she was taking. That is definitely what stood out to me, too. While it's difficult to really make definitive statements about Christianity as a whole because it's so varied, the type we were familiar with from our Bible belt upbringing was definitely more about a pretty literal interpretation about everything. It was very fascinating to learn that Jewish people are much more practical about their interpretation. For context, growing up I'd say a good bit of the people in my church viewed remarrying after divorce as adultery because marriage is meant to be forever.

One thing I remember finding fascinating was like the layers of annotations on scripture. Like people would annotate annotations with their responses and stuff.

It's been the same with Christianity for most of the 2000 years it has existed. Christians had so many different interpretations they have been split up into splinter groups as early as 30 years after Jesus death.

Literalism is a pretty new concept, rougthly from the late 19th century.

If anybody is interested about the history, I can recomend Center Place`s newest video, a progressive church that has a lot of historical and very scholary lectures about Christianity and Judaism (no preaching or converting). Their lectures playlist is a treasure. And I say this as a very much not Christian or Jewish person.

Here is their video on Literalism

Christianity is fear, and Judaism is clever loopholes. Fear you will go to hell versus you'll get into the kingdom eventually, one way or another.

I'm honestly surprised he hasn't run for office now that you mention it.

Or any of the leftist ideas their savior was putting forward.

Actually the line is DEI is what caused the massive fires.

The fire marshall or something was LGBTQ.