A Gospel According To Scapegoats; How And Why Truth Telling Whistleblowers Are Punished

“From the inception of the Gospel narratives, we can see that they were not just stories written about a scapegoat—they were stories written by scapegoats…. When the [New Testament] authors told the stories of Jesus’s life or of the early church, they wrote and interpreted from this fringe position. The Gospel writers also focused on the stories of the marginalized…. These were the people Jesus…

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So I had a dream last night where Noir was fighting the fucking Annabelle demon??

Please do not ask questions I don’t have answers

*takes your face in my hands* listen to me. listen. sir sparklepuff was created as a christ figure. listen. he was born to die. made to be sacrificed. aaravos is god. a mostly jewish team of protags are fighting against god and pre-determinism. viren is called to sacrifice his son on a hill and it's their subsequent breaking point. aaravos is willing to sacrifice his son. soren is a judas who made the right choice. viren is literally entombed in a cave. listen to me. *crying* what father makes a son just to kill him? 

I'm not Jewish, but my first easily-accessible exposure to Judaism and Jewish culture as like, a living community of people was through things like tumblr posts made by Jews. And yes, they were often queer/disabled/leftist Jews because a lot of the people I follow are queer, disabled, leftist etc.

It wasn't my first attempt at learning about Judaism but like... a lot of resources that aren't about pogroms and the Holocaust tend to assume that the reader is already familiar with Judaism. My knowledge about Judaism (that wasn't about antisemitism) from school was like "they only believe in the Old Testament, they don't eat pork, and they celebrate Passover and Hanukkah (and the stories behind those)" which I understand is technically correct but incredibly lacking. It's kinda like jumping from the most basic arithmetic to calculus, I guess (I don't really get calculus tbh).

I have been able to do more research and use less 'accessible' sources now, but it's because of those tumblr posts that I was able to understand those sources and know what lines of inquiry to pursue.

(Also it gave me the knowledge that by asking questions about Judaism I wasn't going to get aggressive conversion attempts, which was incredibly reassuring. My experiences with Christianity have been like, they lure you in with free cheese toasties and then try to get you to sign up for a baptism. I'm not exaggerating, this literally happened to me.)

Omg. The amount of gentiles who have told me that they wanna learn more about Judaism directly from jews but are afraid to talk to a rabbi bc they're worried it will lock them onto some kind of mandatory conversion pathway is extremely sad to me bc 1. WOW EVANGELISM IS SCARY and 2. talking to rabbis can be very fun depending on the rabbi and in my experience many are very delighted to get to explain stuff to people who are legitimately interested I mean lots of times being a rabbi is just being a nerd whose special interest is Jewish Stuff

ANYWAY

I'm glad you've been able to expand your knowledge in a way that makes you comfortable!

The true worst genre is religious horror though like sorry you guys (Christians) have to deal with all that but I don't get it

I don't really understand the fandom phenomenon of priest aus. the uniforms aren't that attractive and the characters yall make priests are. well.

there is such a...skewed view of history so many people have when it comes to women. just the other day i had someone ask me straight up "were women allowed here?" i work at an 18th century fur trading post which most people think is a military outpost (long story that ultimately comes down to marketing) and this person even told me that she had gone to another fort where women weren't allowed historically so like. i get where she's coming from but you look at the house we were in and it doesn't seem like to me at least, somewhere there wouldn't have been women at all.

there's just this idea that women were only in the home, raising kids and never knew how to read unless you were x y and z and there's never an allowance for them to be real people or have full stories. there are so many unique and interesting women at our site, like one who continued to work the fur trade for something like 15 years after her husband died before she retired, and her daughter who worked as a spy for a very, very famous military leader and was paid incredibly well for it! hell, there's a divorced mother of three who came down to make her own living here and the wife of the commanding officer of like 8 years had dozens of pets and gave love advice to the soldiers under her husband's command. and those are just a few examples and people love to hear about them for sure, but the fact that so so regularly i get people, especially women who are like 20+ years older than me, who feel so comfortable coming up to me and insisting that there were no women involved in this business at all is INSANE.

idk. women were everywhere and they were living their lives, whether that was alongside their husbands or on their own and it's so frustrating to see people just. think otherwise

ok the past few years I’ve spent enough time around protestants (marrying pastors son) to confirm what I always knew: catholics are so much more chill than y’all fr

Parashat Tetzaveh (Ex.27:20-30:10) details the regal robe worn by Aaron, the first High Priest (Kohen Gadol).

The Hoshen Mishpat or Breastplate of Judgement was placed over his heart because he was found fit to minister to the needs of the nation.

Aaron humbly pursued peace and justice, fully understanding that the Will of God was all that mattered.

The garments of the High Priest evoked honor, nobility, beauty and the potential for bringing holiness to the physical realm.

The parsha also describes the altar of incense filling the sanctuary of the Tabernacle with clouds of qetoret (incense) a constant reminder of the clouds that surrounded Moses when he spoke with the Creator on Mt. Sinai.

Shabbat Shalom

firing my jewishfication ray at anduin llane wrynn

I was reading your tags on that reblogging and good lord the complex discussion of Dhimmi (or related statuses) in the Islamic world gets so simplified on this site for god knows what reason—in that post I was writing about the Jews of Ibb I was going to mention how it was common place particularly in North Yemen for specific tribes to adopt pacts with the local Jews as “neighbors” and hence intimate members of the community who were protected by the local tribal law and consequently why Jews and Muslims had virtually the same dialects of Arabic in any given area; but that’s a complex matter I don’t think people would readily engage with because most of what’s said about Jews in Yemen is particular to urban Jewish communities who were directly in contact with as you mentioned, the ebb and flow of both anti-Semitic and pluralistic leaders at any given time. Like in specific the Zaydi Imamate always went back and forth on the matter within Sa‘dah, despite their control of neighboring tribal areas being hardly tangible at best and those local tribes (such as in Razih for instance) being rather tolerant of the local Jewish communities prior to the introduction of Saudi Wahhabism in the late 20th century.

It’s such a complex topic, and it’s so necessary to engage with. I just wanted to thank you for mentioning that really.

!! Yeah, there's a tendency to flatten it into one extreme or the other (and to act like the experiences of one group given Dhimmi status are the same as another group). Like, dhimmitude itself is a complex political concept because it's protected status, but it's nature as (to an extent, which at times was greater or lesser as you point out) a segregated status can lead into very harmful policies, which gets into Copts and cultural genocide (dhimmitude on its own, from my understanding, didn't have that impact, but when combined with other laws and cultural/religious/political forces, it can be very hard to read about policies that fell under Dhimmi related laws and not think about the broader impact had on our language and culture, and how conversion is used as a weapon against Coptic women in particular even today).

But situations were it doesn't, in fact, separate the community, tend to be ignored if not outright considered false. In some rural communities in Egypt there would be a very limited distinction between Copts and Muslims- in part, often because everyone there knew for a fact that the Muslim fellahin had been Coptic fellahin until a few generations back (a situation that gets generalized to all of Egypt and used as a rhetorical cudgel in really stupid ways against Copts on the assumption that genetics is the main or only factor in who is or is not Indigenous). This is also true in Judaism, for its own different can of worms about the way (in my experience) a certain type of white Jewish man will have anxiety regarding race mixing and project it onto the past and in situations where that makes no sense, and for political reasons to cast the diaspora as a unique site of misery.

My ex sent this to me while I was drunk last night and I thought I fucking dreamed it I can’t believe it’s real

Ayo since you baptized and named Tristan he reminds me of my time in catholic school.

He reminds me of that one time when I cried and needed therapy because I was told that Jesus died for real real. It seems like something lil tristian would do too.

sksksksksk I feel like that's something baby rollo would do

baby Tristan was a blunt menace who replied with everything with "But why?" and "Show me"

also Tristan likes Jewish jokes he finds them infinitely hilarious (and so do I)

Sorry for being rude on that post earlier but The West Wing is a very Jewish show with two Jewish main characters whose Judaism comes up many times starting from the pilot, who have different relationships with Judaism, and was created and the first four seasons written by a Jewish writer. It's one of the most thoroughly Jewish mainstream shows I've seen and I really don't think it's accurate or fair to compare it to a show that had Jewish writers but no Jewish characters or actors in the main cast and one Jewish recurring character who appeared in twelve episodes in eleven years.

i honestly want to read the quran like just out of interest + to be better informed but the reason i havent yet is its going to confuse everyone even more to see me reading it. sorry for having a curious mind