Christian Cultural Appropriation
Christianity’s Gross Expropriation of Judaism
And the New Testament’s Orwellian Temerity
Although I don’t subscribe to the theistic basis of Judaism, and I don’t practice many of the Jewish customs in an orthodox fashion, my parents are Jewish. I grew up in a Reform (largely secularized) Jewish household, meaning that we celebrated the High Holidays, and I went to Hebrew school.
Yet even that lax Jewish background enables me to appreciate the exquisite obnoxiousness that is Christianity’s appropriation of Judaism. Again, I’m only socially a Jew, but I understand that Judaism is a relatively coherent religion that’s persisted for some three thousand years.
I criticize Christianity at great length in many of my writings, and readers might be perplexed as to why I’d bother to do so. Some Christians try out the canard that atheists who direct their ire at one religion or another must secretly long to commit to that very religion. Atheists have a God-shaped hole in their soul that secularism can’t fill — and so on.
Yet there are lots of reasons not just to doubt Christianity but to be especially appalled by that religion. Here I aim to make perfectly clear just one of them.
