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A Story About Changelings

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The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

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The general gist of the versions of the story that I've heard (from how I've always heard it told at least, mostly back when I was in Sunday School) was that when Jesus went to the temple during Passover there were a bunch of people who had turned it into a marketplace where they were selling livestock, and that they were turning a location meant for worship into some kind of marketplace. Also that the money lenders were taking advantage of people while doing the exchanges, and it was generally really scummy business being done.

The message they always seemed to apply to it was "Jesus doesn't like when people try to turn houses of worship into markets, and he really doesn't like scammers and con artists. Don't sell things in church, and especially don't use it as a place to con people."

So.

The money changers are at the Temple because Ancient Judaism wasn’t like Judaism today where each synagogue is self contained. It was a temple religion. Ancient Judaism was a temple religion Hinduism and Buddhism is where sacrifices are made. For Temple Judaism with the Holy of Holies, be the time Rome colonized Judea, Jews made grain and animal sacrifices a monotheistic G-d.

Before the Romans sacked the Temple and stole our treasure (you can see a depiction of the theft on the Arc of Titus next to the Coliseum), the BeitHaKadosh, aka THE Temple in Jerusalem was the place in Temple Judaism that people came to to make pilgrimage to G-d. Just G-d. He is only there. Temple Judaism was centralized.

Come to the Temple. Spend the shekels you can afford get the portion of the right kind of goat and grain. Make the sacrifice.

Very organized.

So why are money changers at the Temple?

Well Jews live all over the world. That was true then as it’s true now.

We have for example fragments from hundreds of years before the Christian bible was written of a letter written from a Jew in Egypt to a relative in…I think it was Samaria??… talking about Passover preparation. (@prismatic-bell you know the one I mean )

So you’re a Jew from Egypt with Egyptian money and you need an unblemished goat to make a sacrifice unto the Lord your G-d, how are you going to get it? You found a good goat but the merchant only wants shekels.

The money changers do a service. If they are Jews and they do it at a fair rate? They they did it within the Commanments of G-d and enabled other Jews to serve G-d.

Jesus is an uneducated carpenter reacted like angry teenager who read a blurb about what divinity could be but who doesn’t understand that all of these things - the marketplace the livestock the money changers - can and do exist to serve G-d as it functioned in Temple Judaism.

Jesus’s response is Roman. He just reacted decided to destroy the Jewish way.

I don’t bother to entertain the “was Jesus real” question. The writer decided to write a story that distains and destroys the entire functioning of Temple Judaism.

I suspect this is in the same vein. Most people are not hanging out with Temple-era Jews and have no reason to have learned this, and Christianity itself has this weird duality where the "old testament" might be allegorical, but because the "New Testament" takes place in Roman times where record-keeping became so much better, clearly it's actually accurate and this stuff was actually said and done.

First for you - I wrote my response to you in good faith at the end of my day. If anything came across tone wise, I was going for conversational not confrontational. But I also wrote it on my phone lying flat on my bed before I fell a sleep and I hate Rome so if anything came across as aggressive to you, that was unintentional. - please do know that the conversation door is open.

Ok. 👍 That was impotant to me because @prismatic-bell i know exactly the. Article you mention and you’re correct.

My first post is does in fact, have uh, let’s go with a tone.

And I hear all of what you are saying. I agree they’re not intentionally being antisemitic. But perpetuation of an antisemitic narrative.

But I don’t care.

Perpetuating the belief that Jews are good with money or that Jews make good doctors and lawyers isn’t done with malice either. It’s still antisemitic.

I didn’t know about the truth about the roll money changers played in Jerusalem and the Temple until I was grown either. I remember being devastated when I found out.

Everything I find out about Temple worship feels like a bleeding wound the just doesn’t heal for me.

(More under the cut but its full of transmasc kohanim feelings iykyk)

I was definitely missing the context, which reframes the entire story, and I wasn't even aware enough to know what I was missing. I definitely didn't have much exposure to the Jewish culture growing up. I don't know if it is actually true, but as a child I was told that the local Jewish community was so small that they didn't have enough people to have a proper funeral and had to have people come in from the mainland. What I knew came from Sunday School classes, and later a few public school religion classes in a province where there was very little diversity even in the capital city. I've learned some things over the years, but there are definitely still some massive gaps, and I'm glad you were able to help me fill in one of them.

I don't think the fact that it was an actual recognized practice where they were selling items for use for worship is something that is common knowledge (at least in many "christian" circles) and that framing really changes the entire story. Without that particular piece of knowledge I think many are left with the image of a place of worship (that in their minds is intended to be a peaceful and quiet place where you can sit and pray) where the sanctuary has been filled with unscrupulous merchants and a chaotic open-air market type of atmosphere.

My earliest memories of church (apart from the fact that we had pancakes afterwards) was of it being a place where you can't even talk too loudly because then you get in trouble. When the story is told in a way that is framing it as people filling the most important part of it with animals (that are probably pooping everywhere) and making it sound like a medieval market with everyone shouting over one another about the goats and chickens they have for sale, well it makes Jesus seem like the obvious good guy, protecting the sanctity of his Father's house.

But if you add the context of the practices of the temple, well suddenly it makes sense for all these people to be there, and for it to be a respectful and necessary practice. If you're making a long voyage to reach a holy site, especially if you're crossing a desert, you really don't want to be trying to bring a goat along with you. It's far better to make your trip and buy your goat on the other side. Heck, it's not even unheard of in some sects of Christianity, in the few Catholic churches I've been in there's often candles for sale that people buy to put on the altar.

As for the "was Jesus a real guy" thing, at this point I feel like it doesn't really matter, if it ever actually did. With all the translations and parts of the context being lost to time, at this point he's more of a narrative device than anything. Maybe there was a guy who did some of the things they say he did, maybe some of it was made up, and maybe there were things that happened and someone went "you know what, I think that story has a good message. We could just swap a few names and now it's a Jesus story"

There's no way to actually know how much (if any) of it happened, and at this point the truth wouldn't change things.

northern water tribe leader: that’s not necessary, no one can survive submerged in the artic ocean for so many minutes

zuko:

Zuko:

Advisors: Princess Azula did perform the astounding feat of infiltrating Ba Sing Se…

Zuko: Huh? Oh, that’s not hard. It’s pretty nice, if you don’t mind the brainwashing, but you can’t get a spicy octopus for love or money. We ate so much jook. *shudders*

Advisors:… you got in too…. interesting.

*

Advisors: The mysterious Water Tribe city at the North Pole

Zuko: It’s a pretty place, if you like ice.  Lots of sealturtles. They have a really nice little sort of sacred grove thing there, too, I kidnapped the Avatar from it once.

Advisors: …. we have some questions….

*

Advisors: We still have not found the Fire Lord’s secret supplier of new weapons - 

Zuko: He’s at the Northern Air Temple. (Realizing they’re all staring at him) Oh, no, I haven’t met him personally, but I have friends who have. He sounds like a very interesting guy.

Advisors: SO MANY QUESTIONS

*

Zuko: (while directing post-war reparation efforts) Oh, and we need to send a lot of people to work on replanting the forest around this obscure village.

Advisors:…. may we ask why?

Zuko: Apparently the local panda spirit is pretty mad about having its forest burned down. 

Advisors, now afraid to ask: ….Yes, Fire Lord. 

*

Zuko: At least he died doing what he loved?

Zuko: “Oh you’re still looking into that?”

Adviser: “He is a wanted criminal in both the Earth Kingdom and Fire Nation for espionage, theft, assault and battery, breaking and entering and breaking numerous other local laws and customs.”

Zuko: “Huh when you put it like that it does sound pretty bad.”

Adviser: “My Lord, surly you heard of him and his crimes.”

Zuko: “Of course I heard of him. Its just… I mean considering all the good he did. His heart was in the right place?”

Adviser: “…”

children of any species are very good at being annoying and very cute while doing that

a sphinx child based on this post

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.

The general gist of the versions of the story that I've heard (from how I've always heard it told at least, mostly back when I was in Sunday School) was that when Jesus went to the temple during Passover there were a bunch of people who had turned it into a marketplace where they were selling livestock, and that they were turning a location meant for worship into some kind of marketplace. Also that the money lenders were taking advantage of people while doing the exchanges, and it was generally really scummy business being done.

The message they always seemed to apply to it was "Jesus doesn't like when people try to turn houses of worship into markets, and he really doesn't like scammers and con artists. Don't sell things in church, and especially don't use it as a place to con people."

humans are the moms

compared to other species on earth, humans have a really outsized "protect baby" instinct. you give a human a thing and tell them it's actually a baby thing and many humans will suddenly develop a complete and total aversion to harming it, even if it's like, a writhing mass of slimy tentacles in no way reminiscent of human infants

cats domesticated us by figuring out that they could leave their kittens with us when they went out hunting and come back and probably still have the same number as before they left. there is a decent chance that wolves did the same thing

word gets around the less parenting-inclined species and they're just like, are you doing a long haul space voyage? going to have to lay some eggs in the course of the trip? take a few humans with you. yeah they'll just start training the young and keeping from them climbing into the machinery themselves you don't even have to find specialists. I know a guy who budded unexpectedly on a freight hauler halfway through a four year trip, and not only did the humans not eat his spawn, they set up this thing called "babysitting" where they'd take turns monitoring its survival and helping to teach it basic skills