As a practitioner of Judaism I’m supposed to be against paganism, even when practiced by non-Jews, but as a Jew I just wanna see Christian hegemony eroded and people connecting to their ancient cultural traditions
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given that I am a progressive/reformist/whatever jew I believe in the evolution of jewish tradition and practice over time as seen in history as a model for how we should move forward and this is no exception
back in the day the hegemony was paganism. now it’s xtianity.
Jews are told to be against paganism bc it was the attractive external culture that could lead them to stray from goodness and hashem. now that culture is xtianity (and even though in theory xtianity should lead to just different, gentile-oriented versions of those two concepts we have learned time and time again that it doesn’t)
if the torah was edited today? I bet it would be against whatever the majority religion in its culture was (provided that religion allowed human rights abuses or was used for human rights abuses and/or kept attracting Jews)
tl;dr the torah is against hegemony, which at the time was paganism. so translating it to being about xtian hegemony today makes 100% sense
im just putting some thoughts here so i will find them and hopefully decipher them later
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Today I Learned
I made these plans today
Me: Why do we have the phrase “bone dry” when bones spend most of their time being very wet?
Roommate: Hmm, maybe because when you touch a bone it feels really dry? Bones are porous, so they actively suck the moisture out of your fingers.
Me: That’s so much more unsettling than my original question, thank you.