I never could explain my issue with the Judeo-Chrustian God but this explains it. he is an abuser, all-powerful, all-knowing, punishes you if you upset him, ignores you if you please him. Was pissed the angels worshipped him unconditionally as they had no free will to do so, creates humans with free-will so they can Choose to worship him cus, come on I’m awesome, gets pissy when they choise not to worship him.
And Christians often interpret people struggling after leaving the faith as proof that the lack of faith is the problem rather than the brainwashing that really caused the problem.
I think it’s worth pointing out that this is much more of a *Christian* phenomenon than a so-called “Judeo-Christian” phenomenon, and Jewish people for the most part aren’t taught to think this way. (The concept of “God” is often less concrete in Jewish communities, and many Jewish people don’t even really believe in this concept.)
Also, just a general heads up: if you’re ever about to say “Judeo-Christian”, unless you’re Jewish or were raised Jewish yourself, consider that you might just wanna say “Christian”. It’s usually more accurate.
A lot of really bad theology in the OP here. God is not the source of suffering – the absence of God is. God is not “stripping” you in order to force you to turn to him. Christians who teach that are bad Christians.
But also I agree with @earthmoonlotus – “Judeo-Christian” is a term specifically invented by conservative political pundits to justify both Islamophobia and hide their antisemitism. It isn’t a term accepted in academic history or theology.
@kropotkhristian – I don’t think that’s accurate. I graduated with a BA in Religious Studies in the mid-90s and we were using that term completely irrespective of politics. It was a means of describing commonalities between the “Big 3″/Abrahamic religions, and it was very apparent that the term was around for long before then. Wikipedia concurs.
I think you’re both right in that it used to be a neutral term (I’ve seen it used in a neutral way in pre-9/11 history books) but it’s been politicized in the post 9/11 environment.
people who compare jews to nazis really have NO idea what the shoah did, realistically, and how it affected every single jew back then and how it affects survivors and their descendants now. they have no clue. 6 million jews murdered. 2/3 of the european jewish population, roughly 40% of the all jews in the world at the time. theyre basically arbitrary numbers and faceless statistics to non-rromani, white goyim, they have NO idea. torture. painful losses by the hundreds and thousands and millions. families upon families torn apart. begging for mercy and refuge and being refused. being hunted like animals. being imprisoned like animals. dying gruesome deaths robbed entirely of dignity and humanity. thrown into unmarked mass graves like trash. most of us alive today, our existence was a game of chance. its just luck that we’re here. my grandparents, both with plenty of siblings, survived with only my grandmothers sister remaining. out of my great-grandparents, only one lived past the 1940s. entire family trees were chopped and burned down to barely more than tree stubs and saplings, if that. nazis did this. nazis affected so many jewish lives to the point where we’re still being affected. nazis targeted jews directly. white supremacism still targets jews directly. “jew” itself is a dirty word in the mouths of too many people. to equate jewish people to nazis just because you disagree with them on some bullshit online discourse is antisemitic and honestly just downright pretty fuckin cruel. you have absolutely no idea.
Ran into someone who thought Jews controlled climate change while volunteering at Earth Day FML
gentiles on this site, like every day: obviously you didn’t know that disabled and LGBT people were also killed in the Holocaust. here’s some incredibly basic information on this, presented as smugly as possible. i’m sure you must be awed by my incredible expertise about the Holocaust, as, without a doubt, i am the only person who ever learned about the Holocaust for a week in high school. anyway, stop hoarding the Holocaust you greedy, greedy Jews!!!!!!
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