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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • I’m disappointed in the Passover story for omitting God’s 11th plague: bombing the shit out of the Egyptians. I’m even more upset about them taking this quote out of context:

    You shall not oppress a stranger, since you yourselves know the feelings of a stranger, for you also were strangers in the land of Egypt.

    It should actually end with “Unless you have lots of explosives and military equipment being supplied to you. In that case, you should probably terrorize a vibrant and colorful population into becoming radicalized by your abuses and then genocide those people because loony politicians believe that they can personally kick-start the rapture.”




  • after publicly criticising Israel’s military assault on Gaza, an act they described as incompatible with Jewish values and morally indefensible

    Fuck off, don’t tell me what my values are. This is the kind of shit that made me question and then abandon my religion. It’s obviously impossible to abandon being ethnically Jewish, but this bullshit has been so goddamn atrocious that it makes me question my people’s history.

    Jewish values my ass. Israel is run by terrorists and the Zionists in my family welcome it with open arms. Fuck all these monsters.

    Edit: ohhhhhhh… Apparently “they” are the heroes of this story who got suspended. I thought that “they” were the board that suspended those folks. Well, fuck me for losing the subject-pronoun-antecedent game. The sentiment remains, but directed towards the fucking bastards who suspended the originators of the quote that I misattributed.
















  • I always wonder: Why is it tied so closely to American evangelical Christianity?

    The answer to this, from what I understand, is SUPER fascinating and a rather straight line with only a single detour. In one word: racism.

    Prior to the civil rights movement, you’ll see a higher rate of people who consider themselves religious or of faith, but fewer fundamentalists. When schools started integrating and leading up to Brown v Board of Education, a lot of racist assholes were upset that their child might go to school with someone colored of color (holy shit, what’s wrong with me today??).

    Since public schools were becoming a cesspool of inclusivity (THE HORROR!), private schools realized they could become a safe-haven for segregationists and make bank off of an easily-exploitable, single-issue population. A trusted source of private schooling were churches and they were more than happy to do a racism if it meant easy money.

    The religious schools were mutually beneficial for the parents, too. Their kid didn’t go to private school because the parents were racist and wanted their children away from the “colored folk”, they sent their kid to private school because God was super-important and needed to be in the kids’ schooling. Why? Cuz we’re super-religious now!

    That’s the ticket! We’re not racist, we’re religious!!! To keep up appearances, the parents would drag their family to church to prove how godly and un-racist they were.

    In summary: why are the bigots often intertwined with evangelicals? Cuz you can use God to justify how much you truly suck.