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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 11m

We could benefit from it a great deal. So it’s kind of important to keep it in mind not to gratuitously insult any part of that coalition.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 30m

Jesus wasn’t a Christian.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 43m

Oh, that’s not at all what I think is going on there. Jesus used parables to shock, and replacing Cohen/Levi/Yisrael with Cohen/Levi/Samaritan would have been shocking. And gotten people to consider whether Samaritans could be neighbors as well as enemies. That’s not supercessionism.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 54m

Unless you’re trying to keep Jews out of your alliance, maybe you could avoid suggesting that Jewish scriptures are somehow bad? bsky.app/profile/emil...

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · Jan 16

🧵I'm listening to a book by someone whose work I respect & as sometimes happens, was hit by ignorant & frankly antisemitic language around Jewish scripture & "the Old Testament God" that, whenever I hear it, I feel like my head's going to blow off.

So. A thread! Fun!

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 1h

Okay, I thought I knew what you meant, but now I’m not sure. In what sense are you using “replace”?

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 1h

That’s the whole point of the story, I think.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 1h

I’m sure it’s accidental, but you’re repeating a mistake that people make a lot that actually stems from medieval antisemitism. It’s the sort of thing that, if you don’t want to drive Jews away, you ought to avoid.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · Dec 30

As a response to the far too numerous recent references On Here to "moneylenders in the Temple" (usually meaning Trump), here's a thread about why that phrasing is not merely incorrect, but a carryover from medieval Christian antisemitism & actively harmful to Jews today. 1/

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 5h

You just can’t get started prepping your Seder too early.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 5h

Well, I’ve already agreed that Talmud isn’t central to the synagogue service. But the reason that the Shema is central is explained in the Talmud. And if you want to know what times to say it, you have to look at Talmud because Torah (and the rest of Tanakh) won’t tell you. Talmud explains Torah.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 5h

If you’re an atheist why are you accepting Christian slanders as accurate?

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 6h

LOL. It’s like the Highlander: there can only be one.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 6h

I think they see ICE as their competition. Of course they’re going to be cool with protests aimed in that general direction.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 6h

Not central to services, but central to life. And actually, worship services as we know them today were first defined in the Talmud.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 8h

The Talmud is central to all of Judaism except for Karaites, Reform, and Beta Israel. I mean, this person is utterly ignorant, but he’s right about that.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 8h

Christianity isn’t very different at all. It’s just that ideas about the imminent end of the world hadn’t changed, a consistent christology hadn’t developed, principles of belief hadn’t been systematized, organization hadn’t been developed, sacraments hadn’t been invented, and a lot more.

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 9h

It’s a Grishaverse book. I enjoyed w.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 10h

The opinion/editorial side of the WSJ is still completely separated from the news side. You can (as of today) count on their reporting to be factual. This may get changed from above, but it hasn’t been yet.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 11h

Big issues! Religious and political ones! We think they’re dangerous and they think we are.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 11h

See, you have made up a new racial category. If you were thinking strictly about skin color, you’d group the child in with whichever racial group already had the same skin tone. Race is in our heads, not in any biological criteria.

You sound like you want to learn. Please read some books.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 11h

the context of the parable, would be an Evangelical Protestant living among Catholics. 2/2

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 11h

You are accidentally using Christian categories to talk about what you presume Jews thought. For Christians, a non-Christian is a ‘pagan’. For Jews, a ‘pagan’ is a polytheist. Samaritans are monotheists, so no Jew categorizes them as ‘pagan’. (They also weren’t foreigners.) A better analogy, in 1/2

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 11h

One reason it’s problematic is that the common mistake of thinking‘moneylenders’ instead of ‘moneychangers’ is the result of centuries of antisemitism: bsky.app/profile/nina...

Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · Dec 30

As a response to the far too numerous recent references On Here to "moneylenders in the Temple" (usually meaning Trump), here's a thread about why that phrasing is not merely incorrect, but a carryover from medieval Christian antisemitism & actively harmful to Jews today. 1/

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 12h

LOL

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 13h

There’s no point to berating Jews because Christians don’t do what you want.

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Nina says Free Link! @ninamelechen.bsky.social · 13h

Then maybe you ought to be aware that there are ways of reacting to the Bible that are different from fundamentalist acceptance or ex-believer rejection. (Honestly, even most Christians don’t read it either of those ways.)

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