So God created humans in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

• Genesis 1:27

It even uses the plural Elohim here.

So literally saying “They-God created humans in God’s male and female image.”

So in terms of the OP post - always has been.

The problem was Hebrew was a binary gendered language. Words were either male or female. No ‘parent’ just ‘mother’ or ‘father’ - so ‘he’ or ‘father’ didn’t necessarily reflect the intent of the message so much as the limitations of the medium.

This topic of getting rid of gender distinctions even came up in the early Christian apocrypha:

Jesus said to them, “When you make the two into one, […] and when you make male and female into a single one, so that the male will not be male nor the female be female, […] then you will enter [the kingdom].”

• Gospel of Thomas saying 22

This part of Genesis 1 was a large contributing factor to Philio’s first century hermaphroditic “first Adam” and the later hermaphroditic “original man” among Gnostic sects or Adam Kadmon in Kabbalah.

Basically, the very opening of the Biblical text is pretty unequivocally clear there’s an original creation of humankind that’s both male and female in the image of a plural God, and then various groups had a myriad of juggling interpretations to make sense of it.

(The historical reality is likely that this connects back to the age of the worship of a divine couple which gets sloppily rewritten following monotheistic reforms, but that’s a comment for another day.)

If you are asking for a devil’s advocate argument, we could start with the fact that the Jews weren’t exactly known for detaining, torturing, and mass executing their own.

Hamas in 2014 allegedly tortured and killed 23 Palestinians under the cover of the Gaza conflict then by Amnesty.

That’s not the only time they’ve executed Palestinians for alleged “collaboration.”

You also have the fact that the Jews didn’t torture and kill hundreds of German civilians including women and infants to kick off a retaliation.

While I think Likud show a disguising disregard for civilian life and suspect a number of their party would like to carry out a one sided genocide, I also think the “it’s the same thing as the Holocaust” is a pretty gross statement.

It’s also probably prudent to not jump to conclusions in what’s actually taking place during the fog of war. I strongly suspect Israel is committing war crimes under the current administration, but I also remember the 2008 Goldstone report where they were accused of doing so after not participating in the process at all and then years later the person spearheading that inquiry said that had they known at the time the information they learned since, they would have had a different position towards the Israeli operations.

Time has a way of revealing a lot of details that are lost in the moment, there’s probably unprecedented propaganda on both sides of this conflict, and while we should err on the side of humanitarian concerns in directing foreign policy and negotiations, the process of investigating allegations is extremely important.

But to be frank, the knee jerk “this is identical to Nazi Germany killing the Jews” is ignorant as shit. You can’t just ignore the existence of Hamas and the fact it controls the region with its own war crimes (which, as has been the case for ISIS/ISIL and al-Queda, are often directed at their own dissidents with greater scope and violence than foreigners).

Eventually making a martyr out of your political opponents backfires.

It’s probably why Navalny is still alive.

You kill your sycophants that pose threats, but you arrest and routinely provide proof of life of your political opponents.

No, the more likely scenario is that one group of them convinces a bunch of useful idiots to kill their peers that make slightly more creating a brain drain and destroying the host country while the actual billionaires jump ship like rats.

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It’s a classic propaganda technique.

If there’s a statement that has some truth and some falsehood (such as an exaggerated number by a single person interviewed about a terrorist attack after retrieving the bodies from it), you repeat and point out the falsehood loudly over and over to distract and discredit the truthful parts.

So we aren’t having discussions around whether any babies or infants were decapitated or burned alive or any number of horrendous things reported, because the number specifically beheaded didn’t total 40 and we’ve been conditioned to think that’s the important part of the statement.

Like, in my mind, a single baby or infant or toddler being beheaded by terrorists is pretty reprehensible and worth discussing. But 99% of the conversations taking place about baby beheading is instead that no claims about the atrocities committed can be trusted because there weren’t 40 beheaded babies which was what a single person had said in an interview.

It’s extremely effective.

And honestly, it’s pretty gross that the rallying cry of ideological defense for Hamas is “there weren’t forty beheaded babies so any number less tortured children doesn’t count, no take backs.”

It’d be like absolving Likud of indiscriminate bombing because the number of women and children reported killed by Hamas was higher than the body count as counted by a third party investigator.

1. More of the same by the guy who oversaw inflation reaching 160% (100% chance of things getting worse)
2. A total wild card (99.9% chance of things getting much worse)

FTFY

It’s the key ideological problem with the book. Rand was right that people do not inherently owe anyone else the fruits of their labor, but wrong about who was holding the world on their shoulders. It wasn’t the handful of elite, but the masses without whom the elite would be living in caves and running from bears.

Who is John Galt? We the people are.

And yes, throughout history pretty much every authoritarian regime ultimately collapses or sends their country back decades in progress by not knowing that lesson.

Yet it never seems to actually be learned.

Also yes, if a cow could potentially one day cure cancer you can be sure as shit I’d support educating every last bovine I could.

We should be ravenous for educating as many minds as can possibly return compounding gains on human development.

That we effectively turn a blind eye to religious orthodoxy subverting such aims because of the threat education poses to its hegemony is a loss for the world.

(And I’m not just talking about the Taliban here.)

It isn’t even that. It’s based on a stupid and short sighted version of “what’s best for me.”

It ignores the significant improvements progress and advancement has on one’s own life in order to espouse denying opportunities to others whose efforts and successes would largely end up improving one’s own life.

It’s “what’s best for me today” at the cost of “what’s best for me and everyone else tomorrow.”

This was right there in the article without watching the video:

There were also stories of hostages being branded (a common practice inflicted on Jews and other prisoners of Nazi concentration camps during the Holocaust), and of being sexually abused. “Yes, we did see signs of branding,” Pessach said. “We definitely saw signs of being handcuffed. We did hear and see evidence of sexual abuse in a significant part of the people we have treated. We also heard evidence – and that was one of the hardest parts – of abuse against those that [are still there], both physical and sexual.”

I’m not sure why it is seeming to only be a video for you.

Thx. Phone autocorrect is a pita.

I expect the average person to know that there isn’t a supernatural evil being controlling the bad things that happen in the world.

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The number of adults in the US that think Satan is a literal being is way too fucking high.

It started as an editor using ‘adversary’ in the place of what was probably the goddess Anat appealing the head of the pantheon to kill the son of the protagonist like in the earlier Canaanite A Tale of Aqhat as an intro into what was an adaptation of the also earlier Babylonian Theodicy in Job.

But we couldn’t have a polytheistic holdover, so suddenly there was a supernatural ‘adversary’ (‘Satan’) in a story.

Which in turn spawned fanfiction during the prophet ages where they referred to the supernatural adversary of Job.

Then Hellenistic ideas around Hades (both the place and figure) get added into the mix, and we get the Enochian literature about fallen angels, where the guided katabasis influenced Virgil which later informs Dante’s Inferno.

Then King James messes up translating Isaiah and the Latin for the morning star (Lucifer) gets mistaken for a proper name, further tying the supernatural adversary to being one of the Enochian fallen angels. And we get Milton’s Paradise Lost.

It’s all just mistranslations and fanfiction.

And yet millions of people believe it’s actually a thing so much so that they freak out at the idea of any references to it as literally being dangerous.

In 2022.

An age filled with things beyond the wildest imagination of those in antiquity dreaming up miracles and wonders.

We’re so beyond fucked as a species.