the-orion-scribe:

fruitlicense:

whitager:

whitager:

arguing with a “the bible is all fake” person is so exhausting. “book of fairy tales!!!” well yeah it’s the oral tradition passed down to us by our ancestors with the goal of teaching our children life lessons about how to live in the world. like every folktale. including fairy tales. “b b but its not true!!!!” yeah i know thats why i go to shul early on saturday mornings for torah study to sit down with my community and see what truths we can find in our traditional stories. “but somebody made it up!!!!!!” yeah, our ancestors did, to teach us how to live by our culture’s laws and values. “but it didn’t happen!!!!!!!!!!” no but what did happen is our ancestors cherished and protected and passed along these stories because the lessons they teach are so important to our culture so if you’d step aside please i’d like to continue studying what my predecessors worked so hard for me to have

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i am a jew. we are not fucking responsible for christian nationalism and white supremacy, we are targeted by it. fuck you

I don’t understand why non-Jews can’t seem to understand that you have to treat the Tanakh as both a religious text and a historical text??? like. the point isn’t whether or not every story in the Tanakh happened exactly as described. it’s important because it’s a written record of our people’s oral traditions and legal code and it tells us what our ancestors valued and how they lived at the time it was written. so what if the miracles are metaphorical or some of the historical details don’t match? what does the story tell you about the people who thought it was important enough to share with later generations?

we seem to understand this concept with the ancient texts of other traditions. I wonder why the same logical conclusion isn’t extended to Jews…

also, just for the record, some of the Tanakh’s content is literal history. things like the names and locations of some rulers, cities, etc. mentioned in the text have been corroborated in the archaeological record, proving that the people writing these stories down (ancient Jews) lived in the Levant for a long fucking time and interacted with the world and the other peoples around them! which is cool as hell tbh

Most religions in the world still have historical basis. Even about Islam and Mohammed, and Christianity and Jesus. Whether or not they are divine figures and/or prophets is left for debate, but honestly I really hate the disrespect to religious texts and mythology in general

No one jeers about Maōri’s take on the creation of the world, for one thing

Apr 22, 2026
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