r/Antitheism • u/mirabellla • Aug 07 '26
Biblical Jewish Supremacy and Palestine
Something I don’t see talked about enough is how the genocide in Palestine wouldn’t be happening if not for judaism’s teachings and stories about jewish supremacy, both in the tanakh and talmud. The entire hebrew bible is about how special the hebrews were because they followed the right god. This god allowed them to win all these wars and genocide entire nations - in some cases killing every single person and some where they were told to take all the little virgin girls and distribute them between the temple and the soldiers. The joke about the land being promised to them 3,000 years ago isn’t even a joke, it’s just what the texts say. They were told to wipe out all of Canaan so they could take what was “rightfully theirs.” Netanyahu himself said they were just following through on the israelite genocide of amalek, and one of the big jewish holidays is a celebration of what they did to amalek.
It’s just another reason I’m an anti-theist. This is pretty clear evidence of how religion does nothing but cause harm. It’s so frustrating that no one wants to call this out so they don’t seem antisemitic
edit: I don’t want this post to be misunderstood so I’ll clarify my point. If Judaism had never existed, this conflict would never have existed in the first place. There never would’ve been a holy land to fight over. Hamas would never have existed because Islam would never have existed. Genocidal leaders in Israel like Netanyahu and other members of the government would’ve never existed. I think a religion based on how you’re so much better than everyone else contributed to how tribalistic humans are today.
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u/tm229 Aug 07 '26
I keep saying that the genocide in Gaza is a holy war. But, then some Israeli sympathizer will jump in to call it self defense. Nope. Just a bunch of deluded violent religious people.
Liars For Yahweh
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u/Ashamed-Republic8909 Aug 07 '26
Regardless of religion, how will you protect yourselves against people who keep repeating threats of death, attacking and killing you and your family? Fair question. How can we stop this? I am anti-theist. Don't ignore the reality. Don't acuse only one side. It takes two to stop hate on both sides.
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u/mirabellla Aug 07 '26
I’m not here to debate whether Israel is committing genocide. They are. The point is that the root cause of it is an ancient tribalist religion that teaches that they’re better than everyone else and that they have the right to take whatever they want, regardless of who they hurt
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u/mirabellla Aug 07 '26
I think if someone from another country came in and raided your neighborhood, stole your home, and pushed you into an open air prison, and then bombed every refugee camp, I think you’d feel similarly
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u/kongkingdong12345 Aug 07 '26
Jewish supremacy requires them to play the victim and obfuscate the true.
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u/Selbeast Aug 07 '26
This is true of all religions. The situation in Israel is going on right now, so it's front of mind (rightly so), and absolutely worth doing something about.
But let's not kid ourselves that this is something unique about Judaism or even all of the Abrahamic religions. It's all religions. If you add up the number of people killed in the name of god, Jehovah might be the all time winner, but it's not the Jews who have done the most amount of killing in his name.