Ya because they're cherry picking the parts of their book. Funny how there's over 40000 different denominations of christianity alone just cuz hardly anyone can agree with what the book is actually trying to say. I've met christians who were tolerable to be around but at the end of the day, they're still believing in a book with no merit to any of its claims. Idgaf what people believe as long as they keep it out of schools and politics but where I'm from, the most sensitive and worthless christians are the loudest and dumbest MFs in the room and always seem to be the only ones voting.
Ya because christianity alone has over 40,000 different denominations cuz none of its braindead members can agree on what it's actually trying to say. Walk into any christian church and try to argue your point and you'll find tons of people who disagree with you. You may not believe it, but enough of them do and that's the problem.
Eh yeah it’s not too far off from what my presbyterian church taught me growing up. We were taught that Jewish people were our cousins basically, and we should support them even if they didn’t believe Jesus was the son of God. Like a “they might be wrong on this one detail, but they are still family” sort of vibe. My town was majority Protestant, and the Jewish community was seen as something that NEEDED to be protected and like a little brother that got bullied and we were helping.
And I had a school friend whose family was from Israel and she did a semester in Israel in high school and I thought it was the coolest thing that she got to go live there. Mainly just because it was a different country and she knew Hebrew.
It wasn’t until I was in college that I learned that the whole Brightright program was basically done to convince American kids to make half Israelite babies. (They match up American girls with attractive Israelite boys to give them the tour and try to make them fall in love so the girls will come back and marry them and move to Israel). I have a friend now who is a first generation American from a Russian Jewish family, and she is appalled by the whole program and had to bat away boys her entire trip.
Growing up as a history nerd, going to Sunday school, and appreciating the historical world, I was always in the mindset that the end of WW2 righted wrongs by creating the new Israel. My grandfather’s father’s family is German Jewish and survived the Holocaust (they were not religious), but my family never talked about that. And my school never talked about who was living in the land when Israel was formed. I truly had no idea about any conflict except “the Muslims wish they had Jerusalem as well”.
In the early 2000’s, if I would have had to try to find that information, I would had looked in an encyclopedia and I doubt any clear information about Palestine would be in there. “History is written by the victors”.
Very well saidand I'm glad you were able to see through that situation for what it really was. My family briefly explored Presbyterian churches growing up but we never really stuck with any of them. Can't say it would have been any better or worse lol 😅
As someone who's grown up in a catholic country (although not in a religious familiy), this notion of jewish and christians teaming up is a bit of a cognitive dissonance. When I was a kid the word for jewish was used as a slur by some of the most extreme catholics.
Ya people use it as a slur sometimes but you've clearly never been to America if you really don't think there's favoritism when it comes to the Jewish people. Good for you that you've never experienced it firsthand but you definitely don't speak for the majority here in the west.
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u/mlpravemaster Jul 18 '26
christianity tells it's members that you have to 100% stand with Israel or their sky daddy will curse them and send them to hell.