Jesus and the Jews: Part One The first of a 3-part series on the Gospels and Jewish text

I got a lot of it from reading @theradr.bsky.social's great stuff on Jesus and the Pharisees.

www.lifeisasacredtext.com/pharisees/

chaiamix.webcomic.ws/comics/3/#co... i'm pretty proud of this one :3 (cw: needles)

A huge number of people in the replies are showing that they think properly naming and gendering trans people is a courtesy they're doing to be polite, and they don't actually believe trans people are the gender we say we are - which is the core conceit of transphobia.

(There's also the fact that the Gospels were written well after Jesus's time, and Paul especially sought to redirect blame for Jesus' execution away from the Romans he was attempting to preach to, and so laid the blame on us Jews instead.)

The historical Jesus was almost certainly himself a Pharisee, and most likely a follower of the House of Hillel, as many of his teachings are echoes of Hillel the Elder's. Thus, his arguments with them should be interpreted as intracommunal discussion between respected peers.

Properly addressing this would require discussing the political scenario of first-century Judea, including the various Jewish sects (Pharisee, Sadducee, Essene, etc), life under Roman occupation, and the intertextual discourses between these different groups.

“Black people who play video games talk about the games in the terms that they are familiar with, then other, non-black people who play games pick up these terms and run with them.”

beginning to wonder if social media was created for the sole purpose of allowing people to condescendingly air their erroneous notions of who/what pharisees were

Hey fyi way too many, even leftists who should know better, effusively praising the papacy is making it way, way more difficult to organize against this.

This trans healthcare ban is literally going to cost trans people's lives but yeah, woke pope made a statement or whatever.

this quote took me out at the fucking knees lmao

chaiamix.webcomic.ws so, uh... i made this.

people just don't like to be reminded that much of what makes up the internet is funny black teenagers, and that a lot of the language they use comes directly from them (it's giving, that part, clocked it, the tea, etc etc)

i looked at the COGIATI (outdated, extremely truscum test to determine if you're trans or not) for lulz, and the very first question asked me whether i was good at math

i made my bed, it's time to lie in it

Compare that to Maus or Schindler's List, both stories about adults; SL put a LOT of focus on the paperwork and bureaucracy of mass murder, and Maus explicated the complicity of the entire society. Even Jewish books written from a child's perspective like My Canary Yellow Star talk law and policy.

The bit about the difference between Christian and Jewish depictions and discussions of the Shoah hit me like a brick, especially the lack of discussions of systems in Christian depictions. Christian depictions focus on individual suffering; the meaningful, slightly sacred suffering of children.

having performatively restrictive " ethics " just to thrill yourself with the release of permission-granting

i think a cool thing is that every time some right winger is revealed to have, let’s say, a non-normative sexuality, i get to hear what liberals really think about me but feel they can’t voice :)

i am so fucking sick of matzah you guys

Mark Carney is a white supremacist

i watched that fuckass "house of david" show while high on weed last night and i think us diaspora jews really need to talk about how badly israeli jews have lost the fucking plot. like they're collaborating with evangelical god's not dead-ass production companies to make self-orientalizing garbage

you do not have to hand it to tucker carlson or marjorie taylor greene or alex jones or megyn kelly. they're all rats who see trump as a sinking ship and they're getting ready to jump in preparation for their next act. you do not have to fall for it.

I feel like I have nothing to write. "Genocide is illegal and Trump must be tried for war crimes" feels, somehow, *under*whelming in this moment.

cohost tried to do the same thing ethically on a shoestring budget and wound up going out of business when their site was a million times better than Bluesky, who vibe-code, platform Jesse Singal, and crash out every time their userbase criticizes them, but apparently just have infinite money.

It's honestly kind of infuriating to me that all the people with the resources to host a Big Social Media site (servers, moderation staff, etc.) are all the exact kind of people who should under no circumstances be the ones controlling the means of social communication.

ברוך אתה ה', הנותן ליעף כח

sticking you in my purse

"Here's what doesn't happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn't a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown. Even the people who win a war, who survive and come out the other side with the conviction that they have done something brave and necessary, don't do a lot of celebrating. There's very little chanting of 'we're number one' among people who've personally experienced war. I'm just a writer, and my main goal was always to entertain. But I've never let Animorphs turn into just another painless video game version of war, and I wasn't going to do it at the end. I've spent 60 books telling a strange, fanciful war story, sometimes very seriously, sometimes more tongue-in-cheek. I've written a lot of action and a lot of humor and a lot of sheer nonsense. But I have also, again and again, challenged readers to think about what they were reading. To think about the right and wrong, not just the who-beat-who. And to tell you the truth I'm a little shocked that so many readers seemed to believe I'd wrap it all up with a lot of high-fiving and backslapping. Wars very often end, sad to say, just as ours did: with a nearly seamless transition to another war. So, you don't like the way our little fictional war came out? You don't like Rachel dead and Tobias shattered and Jake guilt-ridden? You don't like that one war simply led to another? Fine. Pretty soon you'll all be of voting age, and of draft age. So when someone proposes a war, remember that even the most necessary wars, even the rare wars where the lines of good and evil are clear and clean, end with a lot of people dead, a lot of people crippled, and a lot of orphans, widows and grieving parents. If you're mad at me because that's what you have to take away from Animorphs, too bad. I couldn't have written it any other way and remained true to the respect I have always felt for Animorphs readers. K.A. Applegate"

"Here's what doesn't happen in war: there are no wondrous, climactic battles that leave the good guys standing tall and the bad guys lying in the dirt. Life isn't a World Wrestling Federation Smackdown."
K.A. Applegate, author of Animorphs, letting 'em know. hiracdelest.com/database/art...

plotting the kidnapping as we speak <3

did you know: spending an entire day in the clutches of the dysphoria demon makes you very tired

im-yirtze-hashem tomorrow will be better