Florence Ashley

Show me the coolest thing you own. Whether it’s art or a leaf that you found neat, I want to see it!

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i ❣️ bodily autonomy

I think there is some truth to the fact that certain groups that claim to fight antisemitism have damaged their credibility by labeling too much criticism of Israel as antisemitism. But a lot of people are way too gleeful that this means they no longer have to pretend to care about antisemitism.

The horror of Israel’s atrocities in Gaza has enabled me to convince many of my Boomer Jewish relatives to be more critical of Israel, and not to reflexively assume pro-Palestine activism is antisemitic.

If Platner becomes the leading anti-Israel voice in the Senate, that work disappears overnight.

I’m not saying that whoever wrote the Torah was into vore, but why is God threatening to eat people so much?!?

“Why won’t refugees—whom we’re threatening to kick out in a couple years—integrate into our society?”

I think a lot of cis liberals don’t actually really mind what is happening to trans people, but simply perform a degree of concern that they believe is consistent with minimum necessary level of concern to continue to call themselves are progressive.

like idk maybe i wouldn’t suggest that mass murder of the whole planet is the same as becoming christian but what do i know

“Noah’s flood was basically the same as baptism” is sure a take, 1 Peter 4.

Have you time to hear the good news of our lord and saviour, goth chicks in fishnets?

Yeah—there’s also calf worship of various kinds elsewhere. I’m not sure the timing works great for that era though, since we have reasons to think the basics of the stories significantly predate their written form, in part due to the authors’ apparent unawareness of some names being Egyptian.

One day maybe 😆

Ptolemaic, as in, ~300 BCE? Because that’s long after Exodus was written.

What’s better, people getting fined when they do bad things or someone else having paid all fines already for all future bad deeds, forever?

“The sacrifice of Jesus is eternal, unlike the Temple sacrifices which have to be repeated each time you sin.”

Okay but you see why that’s worse, right?

There’s a lot of midrash that make Mordecai sound way more of an asshole than the original story does, which is a very interesting angle for the rabbis to take.

There’s a lot of midrash that make Mordecai sound way more of an asshole than the original story does, which is a very interesting angle for the rabbis to take.

There’s also the one where Mordecai and Esther are married, so an angel would replace her for sex with the king. Like… huh?!?

Of course, my actual favourite is the one where Mordecai breastfed Esther.

Of course, my actual favourite is the one where Mordecai breastfed Esther.

One of my favourite midrash on Purim is the claim that everyone stopped taking the emperor’s edicts seriously after the one ordering women to obey their husbands.

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And Christians are lined to Esau, so still descendant of Abraham… Hence more confusion on how the serpent-led-to-Jews conspiracy theory works.

Especially given that how much of the “serpent is the dad of Cain and Abel” is Kabbalistic and thus not about literal lineage.

Yeah but the problem is how do you get to Jews here? And how do they handle the population bottleneck at Noah’s Ark?

Best I know, midrash I’ve seen still had Cain’s lineage wiped out (Og and his brothers aside) by the flood?

How’s that supposed to work?

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Is the proof in the room with us right now?

They’re not extending him the benefit of the doubt. They’re extending him the benefit of the certainty.

Don’t he think Jews are literal lizards people?