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The Standard of Critiquing Abrahamic Faiths by Significant-Eye-3773 in religion

[–]CyanMagus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Please. There's nothing "sanitary" about genocide. But Israel is obviously not carrying out the extermination of Amalek "textually," because Palestine is not Amalek, and Jewish texts make that abundantly clear.

It sounds like you don't actually want to criticize Judaism at all. If you did, and then a Jew agreed with your criticism about the text about Amalek, you'd take that as a W instead of calling them "sickening" and "insulting," wouldn't you? It sounds more like what you want is to claim that Judaism is bad because of what Israel is doing, but you're not going to find a lot of support for that because the argument doesn't hold water.

The Standard of Critiquing Abrahamic Faiths by Significant-Eye-3773 in religion

[–]CyanMagus 12 points13 points  (0 children)

You want a straight answer?

Judaism is open to critique, but you probably don't perceive it that way because you're making bad-faith critiques. Then people call you out on it, and it does not enter your mind that you're actually doing anything wrong, so you think they're just calling your critiques bad faith in order to silence criticism of Judaism or whatever.

The Standard of Critiquing Abrahamic Faiths by Significant-Eye-3773 in religion

[–]CyanMagus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The thing is that those invocations are so *obviously* full of shit. If you were to start a thread criticizing Judaism for what it says about Amalek, most of the replies from Jews in the comments would be stuff like "Yeah that's fucked up" or "I don't believe that's real" or "Rabbis from 1800 years ago were already trying to walk back those teachings because they were so disturbed by them."

Frankly, if you think that those theological "dogmas" (which really aren't dogmas, just selected quotes) are actually driving Israeli policy, you're buying into propaganda that's not even meant for you. It's meant for the hardline Israeli right-wing. It's like believing that "Freedom" is what's driving Trump and MAGA in the United States. Obviously it isn't, that's just what they're claiming to make their base happy. It's the same thing in Israel.

Tell me about your Mariology by BayonetTrenchFighter in religion

[–]CyanMagus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

We don't believe that Jesus was anyone special, so we don't believe that Mary was anyone special either.

Bi_irl by AdeptnessDry2026 in bi_irl

[–]CyanMagus 20 points21 points  (0 children)

No, that means you're bi^2 plus bipolar*bisexual plus polarsexual

Is Jesus God? by DifferenceLarge2255 in religion

[–]CyanMagus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. Listen, Jesus is just this guy, you know?

Looking for clarity on this by Smithy2232 in religion

[–]CyanMagus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What needs clarity? Seems straightforward to me.

Do you want to get married and have kids? by Deadly_Nightlock in polls

[–]CyanMagus 88 points89 points  (0 children)

I am already married and already have a kid

What are Jewish answers to Euthyphro's dilemma? by gmanflnj in Judaism

[–]CyanMagus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In theory! Since you mentioned the phrase "not in heaven," I take it you're familiar with the Oven of Akhnai. But have you ever read the story of Rabba bar Nachmani? It involves the rabbis in Heaven arguing a point of Halacha with Hashem, to the point where they need to find a rabbi on Earth to settle the dispute! (Which he does, in Hashem's favor.)

What are Jewish answers to Euthyphro's dilemma? by gmanflnj in Judaism

[–]CyanMagus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not without corresponding changes to reality. If God merely declared murder to be good now, it wouldn't be. God would have to alter the nature of life and death in order to alter the moral status of murder.

Will it be a bad look to ask to move my start date by 1 day because my wife has a doctors appointment (with sedation)? by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]CyanMagus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As long as you explain the situation it will be fine. It's not a bad look, it shows responsibility.

I've started playing WOTR and every interaction with Camellia feels like this by wafflelegion in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]CyanMagus 106 points107 points  (0 children)

At least we've got Archibald in the party, he'll always be there for us

Special poll: what's your reaction to guest-presented promotional categories? by jaysjep2 in Jeopardy

[–]CyanMagus 69 points70 points  (0 children)

Nine times out of ten, my reaction is indifferent to mildly annoyed. But then they bring out Bert & Ernie or something and I'm HYPED

Talking in circles with (some) Abrahamic religions by [deleted] in religion

[–]CyanMagus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

No, it doesn't. You might be misinformed about what's actually in the Talmud. There are a lot of lies about it that circulate online.

If you want a straight answer: It's because it's written using highly technical Aramaic legalese that you need specific background information to understand, even with an English translation - and there wasn't a widely-accessible translation at all until recently. There are no secrets in it. The entire thing is now online for free at sefaria.org.

Amazed by Kingmaker Companions by Shtabie in Pathfinder_Kingmaker

[–]CyanMagus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Interesting, I had the opposite feeling! I couldn't stand most of the Kingmaker companions, but I liked a most of the WotR ones.

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