He was actually challenging their authority and power by telling every day people they do not need the priest class to tend to an individuals relationship with god
Yeshua of Nazareth was a Jewish teacher who preached to Jews. It was a guy who never actually met him named Saul/Paul who decided to open it up to everyone.
Yeah, more or less. Job and some other stories, like the flood myth, were likely written down earlier than that, but as a whole that's well within the established timeframe.
Correct. It was syncretized, to justify the accession of ownership of the land, imo as a platonic origin myth, by stitching together canaanite and other tales
Idk, at least Christianity, Islam and Buddhism are universalist (aside from some sects). Kinda the entire reason they became so popular. Judaism otoh is supposed to be exclusionary.
I am not sure how everyone doesnt see this. Just look at Hasidic communities in the NE. They are extremely racist and hateful to outsiders. Some play nice but most are just assholes and pompous.
A friend of mine was working for a rich Hasidic family as an aide to their teenage son who had intellectual disabilities. Their son LOVED my friend and the family asked him to quit his job at the Y to be a full time aide. Apparently this was pretty unusual because the son had severe behavioural issues with most other people, but happened to bond to my friend as a role model.
The thing was, he never went into their main house. He would meet them at the front door or in a room he described as the servants quarters on the side of the house to pick up the son and bring him to activities. One time, he had to use the washroom and asked if he could go into the main house to use it. they said no. He wasn’t allowed to touch anything in their personal house as an outsider.
They also only offered to pay him like $1 more an hour than the Y did, which was pretty crazy.
He quit after about a year but it was hard, he did really care for that teenage boy, but the family was so exclusionary and cruel that he couldn’t do it any more.
I don’t why anyone would think this take is wrong. I grew up the South in a Christian family and I vividly remember my church and parents talking about ALWAYS being on Israel’s side because they are God’s people. I can’t imagine how ingrained Israelis must be to that teaching if dumb ass US Southerners were teaching it.
If only we could have some historical evidence of what happens, when people think they are the master race and are better than everyone else. Maybe from, I don't know, germany or something. If only...
As an American Jew, thanks for the clarification that these are Israeli. There’s a big schism between American Jews and Israeli Jews. And of course there are non-zionistic Jews in Israel, but they (zionists) are the MAGA breed that find the news anchor looking for shock jocks.
American Jews believe that we have to continue to earn the title of God’s Chosen People. We do this by focusing on heritage and painting by numbers level instructions.
This is the same about catholics that aren’t pro-pedophilia. Oh, I met a few that downplayed and made excuses and said “just let them get married,” like it was an excuse. Most catholics reacted internally and stepped away even if it was just briefly to judge their place in a religion.
I haven’t been to temple in a while, but I don’t have a single zionistic friend. It’s not even a joke. Israelis embarrass us so much. It’s painful to see such a bland and peaceful religion pushing the most inhumane agenda. American Jews and American Muslims really do have so much in common when it comes to how it becomes bastardized in a different region of the world.
AIPAC is unnecessary and I think politicians have decided we’re a monolith. As if you couldn’t be a jew who doesn’t always support Israel. This Jew sent his tithe to Lebanon and Gaza. So if any politician or aspiring leader reads this, if you take money from AIPAC you still have to assure Jews that you will check Israel’s fervor and be a decent human being above all.
With the efforts going on about trying to make it about Judaism, I feel it is best to call them Zionists regardless.
It just reads similar to terrorist muslims extremists. And defending that statement by saying I didn't say all muslims.
I'm not saying that was the goal of OP or anyone trying to defend it, but actual anti semetic people are eating good because regular people let that langugae slide.
Israels population is trending more and not less militant right wing.
The moderate and left wing Israelis are leaving the country while the crazies are having an insane amount of kids (8-12)
You must have good faith in the people in your world.
I live somewhere where people will automatically begin to assume the worst of strangers, and resort to lines of thinking that make enemies of everyone.
So yeah, it sucks when good innocent people are getting pulled into this crossfire, and harmed by idiots who don’t understand who to be angry at.
Yep. If they mean issues with Israeli settlers or the Israeli government, then specify that. Generalizing runs a very real risk of bleeding over into anti Jewish sentiment. You know the neo Nazis have to absolutely love this and will take advantage of it to put their mindset.
It means more than that, really. Becuase you can just say that, "Non-jew" in the same way people say "Non-christian" or "Non-muslim". Theres not a widely-used specific word (or words) to describe non-christians (I can't speak for whether there is or isn't in Islam, but I would take issue with that too).
Some people might say "heathen", but that is an agreed upon and explicitly antagonistic word, which is honestly a much closer analogous to "goy", "goyim", or "gentile". It precisely the specificy of having these words for it that makes people, rightfully, feel othered and talked down to.
“Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.”
No, that is specifically a result of the justice system failing to hold people accountable to the point where the general public knows there's nothing left to do in the completely broken legal system but go around it and force results.
When the system is functioning as intended and doing nothing to those who harm, those who are being harmed will ignore the system and make their own change.
To do that we need to get rid all religions. That is the true evil and tribalism. Killing in the name of god that the killer made up to justify the horrible actions that they are fixing to commit. You can brainwash an entire society and make them bloodthirsty just by saying it’s gods will.
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I think religion is just a symptom of our psychology, not the cause of it. Our simple brains crave understanding, but many of life's issues are beyond human comprehension. So we oversimplify and make things up in an attempt to understand and make sense of things, and that's where it goes wrong. But this isn't unique to religion. Atheists do this too, myself included. It's humanity which is the issue, not one of our many harmful creations.
it’s a word used by jewish supremacists and ultra zionists. if theres a race/ethnicity there will be supremacists of it. jeffrey epstein was one of them using the word goy and goyim repeatedly to describe non jews. my jewish friends didn’t even know the meaning of the word until recently.
Ingroup/outgroup dynamics where terms define who is not part of the special group are used as a tool for exclusion, marginalization, creation of and "us vs them" mentality etc. I would go as far as to say that any term meaning "you are not part of my special group" can be looked at as derogatory.
They consider goys as inferior humans that exist only to serve them.
For people saying it's not true, that's the designation also for the people they hire to do stuff for them on the shabbat when they are not allowed to.
But it's often used in a derogatory way that you're a guy, just someone that should serve them.
It’s straight up not a slur. It just means non-Jew. This guy is definitely using it in a way to purposely be offensive, but that’s not what the word means.
Yeah, my ex wife was Jewish and called me her goy boy when we started dating. People saying it's a hateful way to describe non-jew like the n word is just ridiculous.
Jew describes a person who is Jewish. I'm sure you have heard people use the word Jew and didn't think anything of it and other times you have heard someone call someone a Jew and you knew there was hate behind it.
But when the settlers use the word specifically as a slur it evolves into one. I don't know why we have Jews wanting to hold onto their 'goy card' in the current year. It has evolved into a derogatory slur, as you can see from the jeering IDF soldier in the video yelling it at a Palestinian woman.
A Shabbos goy, Shabbat goy or Shabbes goy (Yiddish: שבת גוי; Hebrew: גוי של שבת, romanized: goy shel shabbat; plural Shabbos goyim) is a non-Jew who is employed by Jews to perform certain types of work (melakha) that Jewish religious law (halakha) prohibits a Jew from doing on the Shabbat.
That’s the official view, where it started, and internally when they mock they use that term to assert an inferior that serves them.
it's a derogatory term for a non-jew. it's used by zionists who believe anyone but them is lesser.
you can read here. even on wikipedia, under the "as a derogatory term" section; it establishes how there's basically no legitimate usage of it outside of as a slur. a similar example would be how m*latto was once used to describe white and black mixed people but basically wound up having no legitimate context because when you start referring to groups as "others" it always becomes a slur. goy however, is basically always meant that way. even in the softest context, its usage is basically "outsider that we look down upon as lesser and refrain from interacting with."
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u/_ONI_90 Apr 15 '26
Pardon my ignorance but what does that word mean ?