But maybe don’t sing the praises of wrecking Jewish religious buildings in your political call to action, please. (As always, I don’t expect you to have already known this. That’s why I’m explaining it. But maybe consider it moving forward?)
(8/8)
The Temple Tantrum wasn’t laudatory, and the centuries of violence it has spawned aren’t something to be admired and emulated. If you think Jesus was flawless, your religious beliefs are none of my business.
(7/8)
So disrupting standard, inoffensive Temple operations has become lauded as a heroic act of standing up to evil, greedy Jews, and has inspired many copycats over the centuries to storm and vandalize synagogues in the name of “cleansing holy places of greed.”
(6/8)
So, to recap, the moneychangers were in the area designated for mundane functions, helping people to purchase animals for use in the Temple, when along comes Jesus and freaks out about them profaning the holy courtyard designed for exactly what they were doing, and starts flipping tables.
(5/8)
So most people opted to buy their animals on site, rather than potentially ruin their sacrifice on the journey. And if you’ve ever traveled outside your country of birth, you know that it’s pretty difficult to buy things without getting the local currency first. Hence, moneychangers.
(4/8)
But why would you need moneychangers at all? A lot of the Temple service consisted of different animal sacrifices. And for an animal to be eligible for use as a sacrifice, it had to be blemish-free. Now, as you can imagine, transporting an animal a long distance comes with certain risks.
(3/8)
First, let’s address the moneychangers being “in the Temple.” The Temple, like many communal institutions, wasn’t a single-purpose area. It was an entire complex. Part of it was used for worship, and part of it was used for more mundane activities. The moneychangers were in the mundane area.
(2/8)
Why do Jews get uncomfortable when people speak approvingly of Jesus flipping out at the “money changers in the Temple”? There is, in my view, a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation by Christians, so I’ll give a brief rundown of standard Temple operations.
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One of them was waving their gang flag in the show, so if they don’t have opposable thumbs they have something which functions similarly.
I have an idea: Doom spinoff serious where they just send him into every horror scenario. Possessed doll? Angry man with shotgun. Vampire threat? Angry man with shotgun. Horrors beyond our comprehension corrupting reality itself? You guessed it; angry man with shotgun.
I don’t think eyebrows Do That naturally.
Platner not being able to rejoin the Marines due to their no-Nazi-tattoo policy kind of undermines his claim that he only found out it was offensive after starting his campaign. Just saying.
That said, as someone who has taken perverse pleasure in making a pun so bad I have similarly offended people who ordinarily care for puns, I am forced to begrudgingly respect your efforts.
Ordinarily I support your endeavors at wordplay, but now I’m reminded of a passage from The Marvelous Land of Oz. (I haven’t included the Woggle-Bug’s pun, so feel free to insert your own.)
Yes, but him being Terminally Online is what made him so defensive of Nazis in the first place. I’m not defending the guy, but he got a lot worse the more time he spent online.
Missed it by *that* much.
Yes. It is what she was supposed to be. It’s not a completely foolproof method.
People who touch grass tend to be more balanced than social media addicts, in my experience (yes, I am including myself as someone who is Too Online). Also, someone who is less online is probably more likely to make necessary changes, even if loud and annoying people rail against them.
I want to help random people beat the GeoGuessr savants’ records.
The terminally online running the social media site is largely the reason Twitter is the way it is now. I support a Bluesky CEO who touches grass.
There is a certain kind of person who has conflated being misunderstood and being smart. Someone not understanding your point isn’t always a sign that they can’t comprehend your superior intellect. Sometimes you’re just incoherent.
I’m not sure how to feel about the apparent budding neo-Sadducee movement.
It looks like someone killed a half-transformed Autobot, spray painted it yellow-orange, and put a turret on it.
If people want to be antisocial, there are plenty of games which allow them to indulge their urges without actually harming people or ruining general societal trust.
Technically that could be one person.
Thus, a 14-year-old meme was resurrected.
Oil tanker driver yelling, “Leeeeroy Jenkiiiiiins,” right before getting the whole ship blown up by Iran.
I don’t know about the history, but I do know that when it’s not used it leads to serious confusion. There was a whole court case about whether a law which didn’t have an Oxford comma included the last two items in the list as separate scenarios or whether both had to happen simultaneously.
I wish certain posts could be less relevant. So, to lighten the mood a little, here’s an Antizionist-not-Antisemite™️ whose bigotry is at least amusing.
