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gravityeyelids) wrote2019-02-21 04:35 am
gravityeyelids) wrote2019-02-21 04:35 am
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sheisawonder: sheisawonder: the term judeo-christian is antisemitic. judaism and christianity...
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sheisawonder:
sheisawonder:
the term judeo-christian is antisemitic.
judaism and christianity aren’t similar. at all. their view of god, of morality, of what being religious means, of conversion, of anything are so far apart from each other, they’re not only in a different ballpark, they’re playing a different game. Islam is much more similar to judaism, and even then, it shares a lot more with christianity than judaism ever will. the term is almost always used to appropriate our culture and twist it until it’s unrecognizable. it’s almost always used by christians who simply assume that their reading of their old testament is equal to our reading of the tanach.
but it’s not just the inaccuracy and inability to do any research on judaism that makes it antisemitic. no, it’s the fact that for two thousand years, one of the maining defining characteristics of christianity was its hatred of jewish people.
antisemitism didn’t start and end with the holocaust. it involved the labeling of jewish people as christ-killers, it involved blood libels, it involved pogroms, it involved putting us in ghettos, it involved expelling us from almost every country in europe, it involved limiting us to one profession and then villainizing us for it. for a long time, christians didn’t bathe because jewish people did. it’s one of the reasons for the quick and easy spread of the black plague.
jewish people were seen as lesser, and were often forced to convert or lose everything - even at times their lives. they’d be advisors to royalty one moment, and thrown out of their houses the next. the spanish inquisition was no joke for the people who went through it.
judeo-christian ignores the fact that the bible isn’t our tanach, that the old testament isn’t our term for our holy text but instead incredibly demeaning, that for two thousand years the church branded itself “the true jews” and treated us worse than anybody else because of it. judeo-christian connects the oppressor with the oppressed, coopts a tradition that doesn’t belong to christians. easter isn’t passover. channukah isn’t christmas. our holidays, our traditions, our beliefs, aren’t only different from christian ones, but are also separate from them - incompatible, disconnected, unrelated, and not yours to claim.
I am… Ridiculously glad that this post is making the rounds again, because it’s one of my favorites and also one of my first really big posts (as in, over a thousand notes).
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sheisawonder:
sheisawonder:
the term judeo-christian is antisemitic.
judaism and christianity aren’t similar. at all. their view of god, of morality, of what being religious means, of conversion, of anything are so far apart from each other, they’re not only in a different ballpark, they’re playing a different game. Islam is much more similar to judaism, and even then, it shares a lot more with christianity than judaism ever will. the term is almost always used to appropriate our culture and twist it until it’s unrecognizable. it’s almost always used by christians who simply assume that their reading of their old testament is equal to our reading of the tanach.
but it’s not just the inaccuracy and inability to do any research on judaism that makes it antisemitic. no, it’s the fact that for two thousand years, one of the maining defining characteristics of christianity was its hatred of jewish people.
antisemitism didn’t start and end with the holocaust. it involved the labeling of jewish people as christ-killers, it involved blood libels, it involved pogroms, it involved putting us in ghettos, it involved expelling us from almost every country in europe, it involved limiting us to one profession and then villainizing us for it. for a long time, christians didn’t bathe because jewish people did. it’s one of the reasons for the quick and easy spread of the black plague.
jewish people were seen as lesser, and were often forced to convert or lose everything - even at times their lives. they’d be advisors to royalty one moment, and thrown out of their houses the next. the spanish inquisition was no joke for the people who went through it.
judeo-christian ignores the fact that the bible isn’t our tanach, that the old testament isn’t our term for our holy text but instead incredibly demeaning, that for two thousand years the church branded itself “the true jews” and treated us worse than anybody else because of it. judeo-christian connects the oppressor with the oppressed, coopts a tradition that doesn’t belong to christians. easter isn’t passover. channukah isn’t christmas. our holidays, our traditions, our beliefs, aren’t only different from christian ones, but are also separate from them - incompatible, disconnected, unrelated, and not yours to claim.
I am… Ridiculously glad that this post is making the rounds again, because it’s one of my favorites and also one of my first really big posts (as in, over a thousand notes).
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