Once you start learning about some newer iterations of Christianity like Mormonism and Seventh Day Adventism, where there are actual accounts of their prophets, you do realize how these people were either really good con artists or just insane.
when one person believes a delusion, it’s schizophrenia. when millions do, it’s religion
True, when enough people do something it gets normalised, no matter how crazy.
They had it with opium, and we have this thing with the hard drug alcohol.
I’m just wondering what kind of parents name their kid Abraham. Like “We’re gonna name him after that guy. Yes, that one.”
And then he grows up and frees the slaves. Go figure.
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And they’ll keep on circumcising their sons while unironically screaming about anyone who respects trans rights being out to surgically mutilate all children. What a world.
That seems somewhat antisemitic, if you ask me. Not all jews are anti-trans.
Not all circumcised are Jews. Most aren’t in fact.
In the US circumcision was the norm for the longest time. Thank John Harvey Kellogg for that. I don’t think it’s recommended anymore.
It’s probably still a lot more uncommon than being uncircumcised because “well I guess it should look like mine or most of the others”
Aesthetic and looking like the father is a big reason women still support doing so.
How would women feel if men said the same thing about cutting theirs up for aesthetic reasons?
But the only religion that holds to this story of Abraham, and circumsises is Judaism.
Muslims reject the Torah, or the Old Testament, and Christians are under no obligation to circumcise so this only applies to Jews.
And Americans do it
because they are weirdfor cultural reasons.Christians are under no obligation to circumcise so this only applies to Jews.
But they still believe it.
Believe what?
The story of Abraham
Dude. Wipe your computer screen clean, open your eyes, and notice the text in the meme about 4 billion people who think nothing is wrong with this: Christians are invoked directly in the post.
Sorry, m8. Here, I’ll fix it.
trans rightspalestinian rights
There, should be kosher now.
It is not. There are enough Jews that don’t support the actions of Israel for your comment to be definetly antisemitic.
Just not enough to stop the genocide. Work on those numbers.
They didn’t say anything about jews being anti-trans.
Didn’t even say anything about Jews. Most people I’ve meant who are pro circumcision and follow an Abrahamic god are not Jewish.
But Americans that circumcise(which I did not know happened), don’t do it for religious reasons. And Muslims don’t believe in the story depicted, so this by elimination only applies to Jews.
Ah yes! The famous three branches of abrahamic faith: Judaism, Islam, and America.
Jewish scholars often recognize 8 genders.
There are Jewish TERFs, but they tend to also be alt right Zionists.
From what I understand it’s also still the standard in the US. Originally popularised because it would keep boys from fondling themselves which, of course, would make Sky Daddy angry.
But if that’s not the case, I’d happily stand corrected by someone more knowledgeable on this topic.
Wait… you mean we’d fondle ourselves even more if we were uncut??? When do you guys ever sleep???
It"s a hard life 😔
… but that woodwork needs to be done. 😞
I would say that Christians are not required to circumcise themselves, since jewish law only applied to Jews before Christ, and it actually made sense to do so back then, for hygienic reasons.
I was unaware Americans do this, but first I would say that that practice is clearly not connected to Abraham, that is portrayed here, in any way, even if what you say is correct. And it is a cultural practice, not a relgious one, and even if it was, as you say, motivated by religious views.
But I… am not sure how circumcision would prevent anyone from touching himself, so I am highly sceptical of that claim.
Finally, I will say that it would be unfair to transpose the beliefs of an obscure american sect of Christianity on the entire Christendom. Especially since there is literally no religious requirement for Christians to do so.
Cirucmcision was commonly promoted as a means to keep boys chaste in the US and was a popular “treatment” promoted by Kellogg at the time (yeah the cereal guy).
Christians may not be required to do it but we’ve got a few tens of millions at least who do do it out of social cohesion reasons and that’s enough of a “reason” for them.
Here’s a quote by Kellogg on how a circumcision should be ideally performed by the way.
the operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic [to] have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases.
Dude was whack job, American af and not Jewish. Kellogg encouraged parents to tie their children’s hands to their bedposts or to circumcise their teenage boys. An even more aggressive tactic saw the foreskin of a young man’s penis sewed shut to prevent erections. For young girls, he recommended pouring carbolic acid on their clitorises.
So no, saying some shit about circumcision being genital mutilation ain’t antisemitic in America. Most people who do it aren’t Jewish, it has a long history of non-Jews doing it and most of the people circumcised in America were done so by non-Jews.
In fact approximately 58.3% of all newborns in the US get circumcised despite any religious affiliation were still happening as of 2010. Recent days could change but not drastically enough to change the point.
(https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hestat/circumcision_2013/circumcision_2013.htm)
So shut up about it already.
But they are not doing it because they are Christians. The vast majority of Christians don’t do it, and atheist americans do it too. This is just a quirk of america, that is religiously coloured because that is what america is like.
And the comment I responded to was talking about people who circumcise for religious reasons.
So it is you, who is wrong.
I’m rubber you’re glue.
lmao mfw I remember why I stay away from atheist spaces. Just the most sweaty debate bros ever.
Seriously! I just read this and I was like, fuck, I remember being 16 too
But I… am not sure how circumcision would prevent anyone from touching himself, so I am highly sceptical of that claim.
The idea was, if I’m not mistaken, that without foreskin sensitivity & pleasure decreases. So that way there is less ‘risk’ of boys engaging in sexual activities, other than for reproductive purposes.
Wow. If I was prompted to come up with the stupidest notion right now, I would hardly make up something dumber.
The Jews at least had a normal reason to do this(hygiene), this is ridiculous. Do you still do this?
As a Jewish person the vast majority of religious Jews are extremely transphobic and also incredibly homophobic. So no its acturally not inaccurate at all, most Rabbis will genuenly complain about Trans people mutalating and indoctrinating people while doing that themselves.
Whats even funnier is that in the original (Jewish interoperation) god does this as a joke. Yes god literally makes a bet with angels over if he’ll acturally go through with it. Then said angels go down to earth to attempt to sway him because they wanted to win the bet.
How exactly is the Jewish interpretation different from the Christian one? I thought the Christian Old Testament was identical to the Torah. I ask as someone who was raised Methodist.
The Torah is only the first five books of the Old Testament. Depending on what branch of Christianity you go by, the Old Testament contains 39-49 books. But that’s only a small nit.
I’ve never heard of that particular interpretation of the Abraham story, being raised Catholic. I also can’t find any sources that say that the Jews believe that the Abrahamic Covenant started as a joke between God and the angels, but then again my quick search might not have had the right keywords.
I wouldn’t trust anyone who misspelled interpretation twice.
interpenetration
My keyboard app doesn’t have working spellcheck. Sorry that every other Android keyboard is spyware.
The difference is that the Jewish interpenetration developed both before and after Christianity started, so its not really possible for them to be the same.
Well hey, when your invisible friend says kill, you kill.
Fun fact: Abraham goes up the mountain with his son but comes down alone, suggesting that in the original text he went through with the child sacrifice.
The Bible has tons of edits like this, it’s fun to spot them—and even more so to guess the intent behind them. Often when a seemingly irrelevant detail (or an entire chapter) is inserted in the middle of a story, that’s an edit (although there are also genuine errors). In general, the Bible is not as well put-together as people tend to think. In this case, whoever wrote this wanted to make clear that Judaism does not condone human sacrifice, in contrast to other contemporary religions.
Others (chiefly those who consider the text to be holy) interpret the pronoun change as indicative of an emotional separation between Abraham and his son, as if following these events they don’t want to walk together any more.
whoever wrote this wanted to make clear that Judaism does not condone human sacrifice, in contrast to other contemporary religions.
I suspect that the addition of the lamb(goat?) Was a latter addition to distance Judaism from child sacrifice but that Judaism did evolve out of a religious tradition that practiced child sacrifice (and idolatry). But I’m also aware of how antisemites would love to slander modern Judaism with accusations in a similar vein, so it’s a kinda difficult line to walk.
A lovely test of one’s faith is whether they’ll stab and burn their child on command.
By the way, if someone is constantly testing you, that’s abusive. Run. Away.
Gabriel: what else could a test to see whether someone would stab and burn a child possible be!?
God: a test of obedience and faith!
Gabriel: a test to see if someone has faith in voices in his head that tell him to murder children IS A PSYCHOPATH TEST!!
God: well I’m sure there is something more psychotic than obeying murderous voices in your head
Gabriel: well, I can’t think of much
omg 💀
Even as a child i used to hear this story and go “that’s fucked up. Why would god ask him to do that? What a psycho. And why would Abraham agree to do it?! If god is asking you to murder your own kid, maybe that god is shit”
As a fun fact, some interpretations say that by binding Isaac and being ready to proceed, Abraham failed the test, either in the eyes of God or at the very least in the eyes of the author. The second verse has God saying (JPS Contemporary Torah)
Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love […] [emphasis mine]
And after stopping him, the angel (which is identified with God) says
I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your favored one, from Me.
The description of Abraham’s love for Isaac is missing, despite identical phrasing (also in Hebrew) otherwise. It’s as if God (or the author) is taunting Abraham.
This also raises a concern about God’s omniscience; he says “now I know that you fear God”, as if he wasn’t previously sure. There are many ways to resolve this, but the Bible is just very inconsistent everywhere.
Why would a loving god torture people for eternity? I guess we’ll never know.
Why? Have you not played The Sims?
Not sacrificing his son is actually a late edit, this is known because through though they changed the text to an angel stopping him, it still preserved the original language that describes ‘‘THEY went up the mountain’’ and ‘‘HE came down the mountain’’
There’s evidence that ancient Israelites, like most other cultures in that area, practiced human sacrifice.
Elsewhere in the Bible, Jepthah sacrifices his daughter in Judges 11. No angels intervene.
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I was never raised religiously. My first exposure to the Bible was the lego comic the brick testament. It was batshit insane as a kid and it’s batshit insane now
Which is why we need and adult rated HBO type series of the old testament. I really want the episode on Samsung.
And then God was all like “It was just a joke dog. Why you gettin’ all triggered?”
Just Joshua-ing ya, bro.
i read an interesting article the other day about how some neurodivergencies gave rise to religion in primitive human communities. i wish i still had it, very interesting.
As they say, if you talk to God, that’s praying, but if God talks to you, that’s schizophrenia.
If you talk to god, you are an idiot and if he talks to you, you are a schizophrenic idiot.
If someone finds comfort in talking to God, then they’re comfortable. If it produces a desirable result, then it’s desirable.
Calling others morons for disagreeing with their way of life, however, solves nothing. I was a Reddit atheist at one point, and I’m glad I’m no longer one.
And if it produces nothing but example after example after example of negative results? What is it then?
Thinking that it’s a one-size-fits-all solution. In some people, it helps. In others, it hurts. If people found their own faith, instead of having it handed to them at birth, the world would look a whole lot different now.
Perhaps, it would even be a good one.
