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| Residents of Tecun Uman, Guatemala, and migrants from Central America cross the Suchiate River June 10, 2019, to enter Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico. (Photo/Jose Cabezas, Reuters). As long as Father Martin exists, you'll never get me to say Christianity is evil, though I do understand the temptation. |
Anyway this person informing me that ex-governor Huckabee seemed not to be a good Christian didn't realize that she was going to trigger me:
The "old testament" or Tanakh as some of us call it is the basis for a deeply compassionate religion known as Judaism. Huckabee knows nothing of it.— CandyflossOfOutrage (@Yastreblyansky) September 1, 2019
After that, it occurred to me that it might not be obvious to her why anybody might have a negative reaction to being told their Holy Book is evil (and she's probably somebody who thinks of herself as being "of the left"), and I started trying to explain, in an absolutely not hostile or oversensitive way:I guess you know fuck all about Judaism too. Go away before I report you.— CandyflossOfOutrage (@Yastreblyansky) September 1, 2019
It's quite true that JHWH in the Bible does a number of very cruel, or obsessive, or inexplicable things. In a way he's learning how to be God and not very good at it at first. When he has the whole thing down, at the end of Book of Jonah, he fundamentally leaves.— CandyflossOfOutrage (@Yastreblyansky) September 2, 2019
In Christianity, individuals are indeed told to imitate Jesus, who is also God, so the behavior of Jesus is a measure for how Christians are supposed to behave. For Jews, measuring their behavior against the behavior of JHWH would be nuts.— CandyflossOfOutrage (@Yastreblyansky) September 2, 2019
That, not losing your temper and destroying humanity in a flood, is what the Tanakh is about, as far as ethical guidelines go. And Jesus, who was a rabbi himself, understood this very well.— CandyflossOfOutrage (@Yastreblyansky) September 2, 2019
I want to emphasize this because I want to emphasize that the cruel and intolerant side of Christianity has nothing to do with the Old Testament. When Rabbi Jesus himself outlawed divorce, he was doing something totally unprecedented.— CandyflossOfOutrage (@Yastreblyansky) September 2, 2019
What I wanted to say, though, is that the worst aspects of Christianity are not Jewish; they come from the self-hating Jew, Greek speaker and Roman citizen, Saul of Tarsus, who gave himself the Greek name Paul and abandoned Palestine to travel the Empire from Anatolia to Rome...— CandyflossOfOutrage (@Yastreblyansky) September 2, 2019
The fool I was trying to be polite to blocked me many hours ago, so I won't be hearing from her again, obviously, and still less will I be hearing from Huckabee, who wouldn't understand a word of this thread. But I wanted to get it down.— CandyflossOfOutrage (@Yastreblyansky) September 2, 2019
So that's all I wanted to say about that.Treating the "Old Testament" as nothing but a kind of poorly expressed forerunner to the "New" is inefficient, to put it mildly, and also wrong, but it is most importantly real anti-Semitism. Please don't appropriate it without getting an idea of what you're doing.— CandyflossOfOutrage (@Yastreblyansky) September 2, 2019
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