• blazeknave@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    They’re not Christians. They don’t follow the beliefs accredited to Jesus. But it sounds like you do. Don’t let them tarnish your name and your beliefs. Good people are inadvertently lumping you together and you sound like a decent person. As a Jew, I teach my kid “he was a Jew like us, a great person if he was real, who cared about other people, worked an honest day’s work with his hands, was humble, upstanded against tyranny and capitalists, and someone who shares our family’s values, dirty hippie hard working Jewish 99%er with an open heart. We just don’t believe he was the Messiah and we’re still waiting”

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      19 days ago

      As a Jew, I teach my kid “he was a Jew like us,

      Gotta get that Us vs. Them thinking ingrained in them early.

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        18 days ago

        Yeah… Christianity is us vs them most of the time bc it’s weaponized. So I make sure he knows the dude is no different than us. Not us vs them. I love how in all those words, this is your focus. Touch grass baby

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          Yeah, anyone aware of the way antisemitism has weaponized Christianity should be able to understand why you teach your kid that. I grew up catholic after Vatican II and we were told repeatedly that Jesus was a Jew, as were his apostles and that modern Jews bear no responsibility for his death. These facts are vital for combating antisemitism in Christian societies.

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            15 days ago

            Holy shit, really? I’m from Brooklyn where everyone I know growing up was Catholic (or black or Jewish) and there was tons of antisemitism. Like literally cognitive dissonance and 10 yrs old friends being like “but wait, half my friends are Jews and they’re fine…” Where/when was this?

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              15 days ago

              Southwest Ohio like 10-20 years ago. It might have something to do with the fact that it’s a pretty German and Italian area. Or that just made my experience significantly more anomalous. It definitely wasn’t a woke area by any means just that the bigotry wasn’t directed at Jewish people from what I saw.