• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Columbia held classes virtually on Monday, the start of the Jewish holiday of Passover, according to a statement from Dr Shafik that highlighted instances of “intimidating and harassing behaviour”, including antisemitism.

    On one hand, it is fucked that America gives Christian holidays off and no other religions.

    But it’s insane these assholes still call being against genocide antisemitic.

    If they’re saying genocide of a people for following anither religion and stealing their land is part of their religion, then they should man up and say it.

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      7 months ago

      I’m sure there are idiots that are using this war as another reason to hate on Jewish people, but that doesn’t invalidate the rightful cause of people protesting on behalf of Palestinians

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      According to the book, it literally is part of their religion 😅 thankfully, like most other religions, they don’t usually follow their own book literally (which would be impossible anyway since it contradicts itself in places)

      This is what happens when you gut your pantheon to worship your god of war exclusively, I guess 🤷🏻‍♀️

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          Never forget that Yahweh subsumed the roles of both hero and villain when his cult enforced monotheism on a polytheistic religion.

          It’s like if we remembered Odin as the only god of the Norse, but in the new Sagas he did literally everything the other gods did and most moral commentary beyond “obey or die” was lost as a result.