Tabitha ☢️[she/her]

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  • it made sense that they would have wanted to keep quiet about J.C.’s Jewish background, as it would have inevitably raised all sorts of awkward questions, e.g. ‘If Jesus was Jewish, why don’t we all convert to Judaism?’

    that doesn’t make any sense to me, Christians view themselves as a successor religion to Judaism, they believe that Jesus showed up and released Judaism 2.0, they don’t hide that Jesus was a Jew, in fact there is a lot of preaching about Jesus showing up and changing things. The only functional purpose of “converting to Judaism” is to stop believing in Jesus, which is either an ideological regression and/or heresy to your average Christian. To Christians, Jews simply have not heard the “good news” or have rejected the son of God.

    Now if you wanted to continue to believe in Jesus, but also consider yourself a follower of Judaism, there is a sect called Messianic Jews.

    Why some Jewish people are annoyed by the phrase ‘Jesus was a Jew’

    I can image this phrase being very annoying. From the perspective of Judaism, this is like having a favorite movie/tvshow/book, then one random day an unauthorized fanfiction sequel gets more popular. It introduces a new character who completely rewrites the lore and rules of the universe in bullshit ways and is a total marty sue. It’s only popular with people who’ve never read your favorite book, but you can’t talk about your favorite book without people presuming you’re talking about the unauthorized fanfiction sequel. Your favorite work of fiction is completely colonized by non-canon non-sense fake fans who have literally no respect for the source material. And they outnumber you 100-to-1.

    I can see it coming across the way “He’s your president, too” might come across. Very disrespectful and insulting.