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MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks agoI’m honestly not sure how you’re helping defeat any stereotypes here because no one was even talking about Jews until you brought it up.
You know how the Romans collected taxes in there less “Roman” providences?
Well that would certainly explain why the tax collectors get such a bad rap in the Gospels.
Pretty sure it’s a bit related… And there’s nothing wrong with learning a bit more about history
Sure. Judea was one of many such provinces, and of course there were Jews there, though I don’t know how many of them would have actually been working as tax collectors before Christ, seeing how usury is forbidden in the Torah.
Being dispossessed and forced to work in unclean professions was their punishment for killing an innocent man. Nothing antisemitic about that, they knew what they were doing and chose to go through with it anyways.
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You know Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, right? How early roman christians viewed and treated Jewish people is reasonable context to include in a conversation about the history.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Sure it is, in the same way that Satanism is an offshoot of Christianity, I guess.
Perhaps that is not how it is practiced these days, but that IS how Christ intended it to be. Just read Matthew 23 in case you have any doubts. If that is not a scathing obliteration of any Rabbinic teaching that was around at the time, IDK what is.
Remember, they had the guy killed just for saying that.