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loudpenitent Feb 22, 2024

@anilmc God in Jewish sources is regularly depicted as someone you can talk to, negotiate with, and even make moral appeals against on the basis of God's own essentially good nature - the most famous example being Abraham bargaining for the lives of Sodom and Gomorrah despite the cruelty & inhospitable practices of their residents.

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loudpenitent Feb 22, 2024

@anilmc The entire Christian spiritual universe is at least somewhat built upon concepts of original sin and damnation that do not strictly exist in Jewish views of the Torah - from the Jewish POV a sacrifice like Jesus is wholly unnecessary.

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loudpenitent Feb 22, 2024

@anilmc @BathysphereHat So I basically never post here, but it's like this: the separation of God into the Father and Son is a Christian conceit, as is the idea that the Father is a distant, unforgiving and uncaring god - the Jewish view of God is typically the "still small voice," & Jewish perspectives on the Torah emphasize God's forgiveness & love for humanity. Christians don't incorporate that bc they have Jesus so they need God to need to undergo character development in the NT.

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loudpenitent Apr 14, 2023

@BathysphereHat except sometimes certain chemicals will do it apparently

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loudpenitent Jan 31, 2023

Not to mention that Nate actually does get on pretty well with indigenous peoples when he encounters them in any of his games; sure, there's all sorts of racism especially in Uncharted 1 in how many of his enemies are PoC, but 2 and onward try hard to shed that.

loudpenitent Jan 31, 2023

RT @[email protected]

Worth noting: This won't take place as originally scheduled in large part because the entire organized Muslim community of Sweden stood up and opposed it. https://twitter.com/JTAnews/status/1620198937314398209

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jh_swanson/status/1620216416942301184

JTA | Jewish news on Twitter

“A Muslim man postponed a protest that would have involved burning a Torah scroll in front of Stockholm’s Israeli embassy this past weekend. https://t.co/6hmakuGZF9”

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loudpenitent Jan 31, 2023

RT @[email protected]

The Midrash says that we should also mourn the Egyptians who died. https://twitter.com/yairmenchel/status/1619527635616542721

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jh_swanson/status/1619919281571139586

Yair Menchel on Twitter

“If the splitting of the sea occurred today: - The media would mourn the Egyptians that died. - PETA would mourn the horses that died. - The Jews would be called murderers.”

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loudpenitent Jan 31, 2023

It is actually kind of funny that Nathan Drake is, in some respects, more genuinely a history nerd than Indiana Jones.

Sure, Nate treasure hunts, a LOT, & has all the attendant archaeology sins, but he consistently shows a genuine passion for history & ancient cultures.

loudpenitent Jan 30, 2023

RT @[email protected]

What you're looking at is a justification for murdering civilians draped in the language of liberation following the murder of Israeli Jews outside of a synagogue last week.

Put differently: some people saw Jews get murdered and said "more please."

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JewishWonk/status/1620120979082190848

Alex גדעון בן װעלװל on Twitter

“What you're looking at is a justification for murdering civilians draped in the language of liberation following the murder of Israeli Jews outside of a synagogue last week. Put differently: some people saw Jews get murdered and said "more please."”

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loudpenitent Jan 30, 2023

RT @[email protected]

Hating Jews precedes every modern ideology. No ideology is immune to antisemites joining their ranks because it's a wider part of the cultural tradition.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JewishWonk/status/1619843667979829249

Alex גדעון בן װעלװל on Twitter

“Hating Jews precedes every modern ideology. No ideology is immune to antisemites joining their ranks because it's a wider part of the cultural tradition.”

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