as small as a world and as large as alone

3:01am September 30, 2014

fauxcyborg:

part of my experience as the jew at a catholic school was the realization that the christian (including people from a christian background, regardless of your identification rn) perception of jewishness is simply that you just don’t include the new testament and bam: jews.  

which is a baffling way to perceive jewishness even when people are determined to remain as ignorant as possible. wouldn’t you say that there are differences between how certain types of christians interpret the bible? now, add a few thousand more years and a culture that is pretty heavily based on well, arguing tbh, and the sheer arrogance to believe that oh yeah you’ve got this jewishness down. 

like: original sin. not a jewish concept!

but: jewishness in the western eye is essentially boiled down to christianity without the jesus and the tokenization of shoah survivors yet there is still this belief that you guys get what it means to be a jew.

which: shockingly, is not even something we can agree on. 

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