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.
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!!!!!!
Remember that before the Holocaust, there were 18 million Jews in the world. They killed a third of us.
Remember that pre-war Eastern Europe was the center of world Jewry, and it had a thriving Jewish society with Yiddish theater, poetry, literature, art, and political activism. An entire society was destroyed.
Remember that before the war, a third of Warsaw’s population was Jewish. The vast majority of those Jewish residents were murdered.
Remember that Salonika (Thessaloniki) was a city in Greece that had a Jewish majority for hundreds of years. It used to be known as Sabatopolis – the Shabbat city – because before electric light, ships going by on Friday night would see a dark shoreline because the residents could not light lights. In the 16th century, it was known as the “mother of Israel” and was a center of Jewish life where Eastern European Jews would come to visit and study. Fewer than 1800 Jews from Salonika survived the Holocaust.
Remember that in Krakow, what used to be the Jewish quarter is now a tourist trap for the groups who come to look at what once was. The Jewish community owns several beautiful synagogues but only regularly uses one because there are so few Jews left. Without the tour groups who regularly pray with them, they would have trouble getting a quorum of ten men by the beginning of the Shabbat service. The other synagogues are museums now.
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