#Judisim

[iamajackalope]

Fist off how do you look at Steven Universe and your first thought is that it’s about god! It’s clearly a metaphor about abusive parents/ authority. In the guise of an evil government bent on colonizing and destroying everything that doesn’t benefit them. If that’s who you think other people think god is then you can see why they don’t like him. Others of your faith aren’t helping that ether.

I don’t know a lot about the Jewish faith but I do know that there is no trinity in it, so I don’t know how artist-issues got that. Since that is one of the big difference between Judaism and Christianity. It’s pretty obvious, and correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t one reason that the Christian god punished the Jews was that they didn’t believe that Jesus was god or the son of god. Or was it that he was some important profit or some thing. I know that Athingofvikings explained it very well in one of there other posts.

Kind of off topic but the whole fish can’t breath air thing the lungfish and the mudskipper are both fish that can and do breath air. So by that bit of your argument a person can be very different from baseline/“normal” and still be within the Christian god’s designs.

“At least it's not ferociously attacking God quite as directly as Steven Universe did…”

Not that I’m surprised by this statement, but can you elaborate on this? Kinda intrigued by your thoughts on Steven Universe.

Okie dokie, you’re not the only one who has asked me about this, so I suppose I’ll poke the hornet’s nest. 😅 I haven’t talked about this before because I assumed that everyone who wanted to hear my kinds of opinions on stories wasn’t watching or interested in Steven Universe.

It’s like asking vegetarian if they enjoyed a turkey dinner. The turkey dinner was so obviously not made for vegetarians to enjoy, so why would the vegetarian even bother analyzing the turkey?

But I think if some people are asking me why I think Steven Universe is anti-God (of the Bible) its because maybe they don’t know what the turkey is. Not completely. (Maybe not you, because like you said, you’re not surprised by my comment.) So I’ll explain my thoughts on Steven Universe.

If you’re just following me because you liked some stuff I posted, but didn’t realize that I’m a Bible-believing Christian and don’t want to hear about it, unfollow me now. Because I’m going to talk about some hot button issues here and the trolls will come out.

Steven Universe is really well-done. The jokes are funny, the writing is believable, the characters have great chemistry, great design, the concept is fascinating, the slow build-up and reveal of the plot elements is great. But when you watch the throne room scene in the last episode of Season 5 “Change Your Mind,” it’s alarmingly clear how much the whole show is not just settling for defending and championing the LGBTQ+ worldview—it goes all the way to attacking what Christians believe, on the other side.

Anything that’s pro-LGBTQ+ is doing that by default, but this show goes out of its way to do that.

You have to understand: God created and designed us. Deeper than that; He created and designed romantic relationships, and invented marriage. He didn’t just create love—He is love. So when humans come along and do what we’ve always done since the fall, and say, “I’d rather define what Your thing is and how it works for myself, God,” it’s not only an incredible slap in the face, it’s an attack on God’s actual identity—and it’s destructive for us and the people around us. Like a fish insisting it can breathe oxygen.

But Steven Universe goes beyond that. It knows that the Christian worldview is it’s biggest opposition. It digs right down to the heart of the worldview-battle. LGBTQ+ worldview says, “I should get to love what I want and be who I am, because I’m me. Love is love. (By which I mean, any action or relationship I choose to call love is love, because I’m the one calling it that.)”

Biblical worldview says “No, wait, you shouldn’t base your decisions on you alone; what you want changes day to day, and you’re broken, so you can’t ever be satisfied based on what you want—the Bible says God made you for something, and you rejected that, and it broke you. You’re not how you’re meant to be: even what you want and what you think love is is twisted up and can hurt you and others. But if you submit to God He’ll help you, He’ll fix what’s broken and give you new life by making you how you were supposed to be: He’ll live in you and through you.”

Are we beginning to get the picture?

See, the whole thing with the opposing views between LGBTQ+ and Christian people is as old as time. It’s not a new debate. It’s Satan and Eve in the garden. She says, “This is not how God said things should be,” and Satan says, “Are you sure that’s what He said? He knows if you do this thing, you’ll be like Him. You’ll be god: you’ll get to decide ‘how things should be’ for yourself.”

He lied and said that disobedience would satisfy her. That she knew what her own heart needed better than the God that made it did. That the very act of being imperfect would make her godlike.

And then Steven Universe comes along and says “if every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hotdogs.”

And has a cast of created being characters who’s imperfections (Garnet’s forbidden “love,” Pearl’s obsession, Amethyst’s insecurity) are supposedly “the best thing about them; what makes them who they are.”

And has a main character who used to be a part of the god-like creator relationship, but used her power to come down to earth and completely change who she is into a fully different person.

And has a godlike Creator character who claims she “doesn’t need” her created beings (just like the God of the Bible) but they all have a little part of their creator in them so she has to repress their imperfections; she holds them all to a standard that’s impossible to reach called “perfection” and punishes them when they don’t meet it even though it hurts them to try; she expects them all to do what they were created by her for; she fixes them when they can’t meet her standard by shining her light through them and making them extensions of their Creator.

And has a main character who argues, fights back, tries to stop her, and is answered with lines that sound surprisingly like what LGBTQ+ people hear when Christians argue with them: “you’re only making things worse; you’re just deceiving yourself; even while you resist it your actual light can’t help shining through,” etc.

White Diamond just wants everything to be perfect. Like her. She just wants her created beings to “be themselves.” But what she means is, be how she created them to be.

And she’s the bad guy. She’s playing God in this show, and Rebecca Sugar is saying, “If God is telling us that can only be happy by being perfect, as He is perfect, and doing what He created us to do, then He’s wrong. Our imperfections are what make us special—unique—individuals—free—and there is nobody who has the right to take that freedom away from us, not even out creator!”

And you know what?

If God were like White Diamond, like Rebecca Sugar believes Him to be, Steven Universe would be right.

But He is NOT.

God is not a dictator who forces us to conform to a standard of perfection and then smashes us when we don’t meet it. He is a King who made us perfect to begin with, and we rejected him, because He allowed us to do that. He knew that true love was love that had to be chosen, and He wanted us to love Him by choice, so he gave us the option. But Rebecca Sugar doesn’t understand—there was never “Choose God or Choose Yourself.” There was only, “Choose God or Choose Nothing.” There was nothing except God. Then He created everything. There is no version of reality where you have something better than God, or even slightly less good but different, to pick. You’re not jumping from one ship into a smaller one, but at least it’s yours—you’re jumping from one ship into a void, and then complaining that there’s no other ship. That’s humans. That’s not God. / White Diamond didn’t make her creations perfect (Amethyst) and she didn’t make them for love. She made them for power. That’s not the God of the Bible.

Even when we did choose to try and love ourselves instead of God, and therefore warped our ability to perfectly love at all, He didn’t smash us. True, everything fell and was cursed, which is exactly what He warned us would happen if we chose it, but it was a natural consequence of breaking ourselves. And then He didn’t leave us that way. He didn’t give up on us. And He certainly didn’t just zap us, snap His fingers, quick-fix it and turn us all into robots who are extensions of Him, who say they love Him but only because it��s His voice puppeting us to say it.

No. He came to us, chose to give up His life at the exact point on the timeline when Romans, masters in the art of slow, humiliating, torturous death, would be the ones to carry out His crucifixion, and saved us Himself. Through the sacrifice of His own life. And even then, we still have a choice. We get to choose to accept that incredible self-sacrifice when we don’t deserve it, and be given new life and a relationship with the Creator who knows us and loves us better than we can love ourselves or receive love from others—OR we can just keep stubbornly insisting that our slavery to the opposite of what God wants is somehow freedom, and our twisted versions of love are genuine, and we’re not broken, and die like that. Die broken creatures who lived their whole lives stomping their feet and screaming “I’m not a creature, I’m a god!”

White Diamond sacrifices nothing, because Rebecca Sugar doesn’t know the God of the Bible. She just knows her idea of Him. She’s never actually gotten to know Him. If she had, she’d learn how silly and twisted her idea is.

Because you know what, yeah, if every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hot dogs. But people aren’t pork chops. And hot dogs have flavor (not better than pork chops) but they are awful for you.

Christians aren’t perfect cuts of meat with no individuality or flavor. Just because we all know and love the same God doesn’t mean we have no personalities. It just means we don’t think so freaking much about what we are, or who we get to be, or what we like and want. Jeez, what a self-centered, narcissistic, self-obsessed way to live. She plays Steven like he’s this wonder-child, innocent and full of heart, who encourages his friends to love and keep trying. But honestly?

This is very pretty animation but it’s not real. Steven looks happy hugging Steven but self-love doesn’t ultimately get you that.

That’s all based on the premise that what he’s encouraging them to do is actually good, and will make them happy, and will help them love better. And it just won’t. Not in real life. That’s not how any of this works. Self-love is just self-obsession. And that is a sure-fire way to hurt you, and everyone around you.

You’ll never be free by choosing to run to a worse master. You’ll never be satisfied with your crappy attempts at loving yourself, because you were made to be loved flawlessly and forever by someone who is Love Himself.

And choosing to identify with your imperfections doesn’t make you uniquely you. It just makes you exactly like every other human being marching in the same line since the Fall.

White Diamond’s not relational. She’s up high and distant. That’s not God. He made you to be in relationship with Him. He loves you, totally and perfectly, and He proved it by sacrificing for You.

So yeah. That’s the problem with Steven Universe. Come get me, SU fans.

[allulily]

anyone have a good book recommendation for learning about judisim in star trek? ik a bit about it but wanna learn more

[barbh]

The Torah For Dummies® by Arthur Kirzweil [REVIEW]

The Torah For Dummies® by Arthur Kirzweil [REVIEW]

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[thebestpartofwakingup]

Me externally: I have not yet talked with a Rabbi so I am only a potential Jewish convert officially

Me internally constantly: HOLY SHIT!!!!!! I LOVE BEING JEWISH SO MUCH!!!!!!! OH FUCK!!!!!

[spacelazarwolf]

Do people really think Jews don't come from the Levant... you know... where Judisim originated....

yup. there are people who, in the year of our lord 5783, straight up deny history and science and the existence of non white non ashki jews bc it doesn’t fit with their “rich cishet white ashkenazi khazar just trying to steal everyone’s land” narrative.

[will-o-the-witch]

Any good resorces for incorperating Judisim and witchcraft?

jewitches.com is one I always recommend! Zo is great and has a lot of good articles about blending the two back and forth as well as a page with good book recommendations

[allroseshave-their-pricks]

I decided to do that frog challenge in the Sims and the randomly generated sim had a tichel on so I decided to keep it and make her clothes match bc why not. JudiSIM ya know?

But then someone invited her to the romance festival and there was a little task to kiss someone and Father Winter (Sim Santa Claus) was there and I was like “oh hell yes baby Claus time” so I did the romance thing, completely forgetting the Sim was Jewish. So now now she’s dating Mr. Claus, who she probably doesn’t believe in?

And then I had her adopt the ugliest little cat. It’s organge and cross eyed and always looks Angry and I adore her

[boywizard-moved]

how can you be mexican and jewish

yall are so invasive mind your own business but if you really care my mom is nauha and my dad is jewish and i was raised with my religion as judisim. please mind your own business from now on.

[chaotic-gingers]

“I heard zinnia liked Jewish,animal-loving, tubby, poor, gingers. All I have to do is gain weight and covert to judisim and I’m good to go!”

—Jane Reed, again, on trying to earn Zinnias love.

[furiousfirealpaca]

The difference between paganism and witchcraft

there is a difference between witchcraft and paganism. Witchcraft is a practice not a religion. You can be a member of any religion and still be a witch. The term witch is gender neutral. Pagans belong to any pre Abrahamic religion. That’s judisim Christianity and Islam. The term pagan was the original Latin term for country dweller.

[astroangeltears]

The idealisim of gentile features in judisim is kinda off the charts, im adopted and would get complemented at temple by parents for my small nose and “beautiful gentile features” by mothers in front of their kids who were not gentile

I thought we were vaguing “Shiksa Goddess” from the Last Five Years and holy shit does that song make my blood boil. Fuck Jason Robert Brown, we don’t want you either!!!

I haven’t watched this but from the title I imagine that it’s *exactly* what I’m talking about

[taki118]

Why does no one talk about Supermansion?

I mean its a stop motion animated super hero comedy starring Bryan Cranston, Keegan Micheal-Key, and even has Chris Pine voice two villains (and you’d never know unless you were told he kills it) and yet no one seems to talk about it. I just its two seasons in and  ... HOW? Is no one talking about it?

The series is about a Superman parody who both ages (poorly) and has such a terrible libido his awful choices because of it is a running gag, trying to keep his equally unhinged teammates in line. Which includes.....

A Captian America parody who is the man removed from time thing played utterly straight. He often uses terms and thinking that were fine in the 1930s but  are straight out offensive now. Also he constantly brings up the fact he was frozen for decades as a BAD thing. 

A Batman parody sans the “My parents are dead” i.e. he plays the tortured dark hero bit buuuutttttt his parents are billionaires and he simply refuses to grow up. Also way more obsessed with his Joker analogue than said Joker is to him. 

A Hulk parody who gets his powers from drugs rather than anger and is oddly the teams most stable member. Despite his addict tendencies.

Then we have a Robot who questions it’s position in the world often making quick life altering decisions, i.e. it learns its creator had a typically jewish surname so decides to convert to judisim with very little forth thought.

And Finally a Tigra spoof who's literally a cat turned into a person instead of the other way around. Despite being given hyper evolved intelligence it gives her little more than average or below average human intelligence because she is after all a cat. She gets distracted by laser pointers, can't focus well and will go feral if left outside. She’s also fucking hysterical. 

Add on for good measure a more bureaucraticial Nick Fury, an easy going Joker, an even more self involved Iron Man, villains remarking that they are being unfairly held in the teams basement, and it makes for one hell of a good time. 

I mean i’m not even getting to the shockingly touching moments the show can have, or Yvette Nicole Brown’s character in season 2, not to mention a really fun twist in season ones storyline. It just such a fun series i don’t get why more people aren't into it.

[spacelazarwolf]

Hey I don't really have anything unhinged I just want to say as a Muslim I really appreciate your perspective on Judisim and I feel like I've learned a lot just by following you. :)

thank you so much, this means a lot!

[thebestpartofwakingup]

Wow I have just enough room in my college schedule to major in Physics/Pre Med and minor in Judisim

[legalnationwn]

Rabbi Accused of Kidnapping, Torturing Husbands Into Granting Divorces Goes to Trial

Rabbi Accused of Kidnapping, Torturing Husbands Into Granting Divorces Goes to Trial

The trial of Mendel Epstein, a New Jersey Rabbi and alleged ringleader of a kidnapping scheme designed to force husbands into granting their wives religious divorces, entered its second day in court in Trenton today.

Epstein, 69, was arrested in October 2013 for allegedly charging undercover FBI agents $60,000 to kidnap a man and coerce him into granting his wife a Judaic divorce decree.

Rabbis…

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