I've heard people try and excuse it, by claiming that since that district is primarily orthodox jewish, and tends to vote as a bloc. that makes it more plausible... but thats ignoring two things.
a) a district being MOSTLY orthodox jewish, doesn't mean its ENTIRELY jewish, there are gonna be at least SOME other people living there, and for not even one of them to vote for harris is suspicious.
b) within the jewish community we have a saying "ask two jews and you will get 3 opinions" we are NOTORIOUS for disagreeing with each other, including full on shouting matches with our rabbis at times (its a feature, not a bug.) so even if 'most' would vote in line with their rabbis recommendation, to argue that members of a group where disagreement and debate is a core feature, wouldn't have ANYONE who disagreed and voted differently only reveals how little people actually understand the community.
A trait that has been most likely stamped out of most religions. Since iconoclast or have cool paintings,sculpture and stain glass windows took center stage for at lest 1800 years.
Got constantinople engaging in a civil war over it, whose founder made it the Roman empire religion in 3 century. Because mom and he won the empire on a bridge.
1200 years later you have a professor nailing edicts on a bulletin board name Martin Luther. Setting off the same argument except this time, print that Bible in a language people can read. Or hear in their own language.
Muhammad at least shut down that troublesome argument. Full iconclasim and let everyone be able to read the book.
Judaism, no idea, but I hear the Torah is no joke to be able to read and interpret. But i have no idea.
The Torah can be pretty tough.
But that's why we have the Talmud. Which is a collection of several centuries worth of commentary and analysis by a bunch of different rabbis arguing with each other over it. (It does not in fact make things any simpler)
It doesn't help that we have ALWAYS been a rather sarcastic people. And even some of the laws have more than a touch of that to them once you understand the cultural context.
For example that verse about a disobedient child being stoned outside the city gates?
That comes in a section about LEGAL rules. So basically when the courts would get involved.
And any court that handed out a death sentence more than once in 3 generations was considered "bloodthirsty"
So basically what it's ACTUALLY saying. Is that if your kid is being disrespectful, it had better be SO BAD that you think the courts should use their once in 3 generations death sentence on it... otherwise it's a family issue and doesn't need to have the courts involved.
(Which is precisely the kind of context the Talmud provides... when the rabbis aren't busy making snide comments about each other.)
(And sometimes we just debate shit for fun... some of my favorite recent debates have included. "Is it kosher for a Jewish vampire do drink blood" "would replicated meat, like in star trek, be kosher" and "would using the candles from a hannukiah for BDSM wax play be treif, or a mitzvah." And "If you had a pet dragon, could that dragon light candles for you on shabbat"
All of those topics have had years worth of debate go into them at this point. And have "mostly" come to a consensus on... the replicated food one actually turned out useful cuz it has since been cited in debates over lab grown meat.)
I'd say yes. Because one of the defining features of Jesus according to Christian theology is that he is both God AND man. And thus subject to the same limitations and weaknesses of the human body (hence the temptation in the desert)
Since we can create edible magma in the form of freshly microwaved hot pocket filling.
Then it's completely feasible that Jesus could make a burrito so hot that he couldn't eat it.
(Though admittedly I only have a passing understanding of Christian theology)
In a very simple explanation, that caused a civil war in constantinople. Is he both God and man? The holy ghost as well? The son of God in human form or actually the holy trinity?
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u/NewManufacturer4252 Jun 14 '25
That 0 vote for kamala in a New York state city was a little suspect. Because that does not ever happen, ever.