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Nov 20Liked by Yasha Levine

As a Muslim, albeit not a very religious one, I'm not sure whether to feel honored or alarmed to find that I'm also a Noahide? But I'll probably skip appearing before a Rabbinical Court to formalized this understanding. I'll also not be sacrificing any animals despite such sacrifices being nominally a part of both religions. I might make an exception for really high quality lamb, some of the very best of which is raised nearby.

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try it out maybe you’ll like your new masters!

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Maybe I would. I have new masters at home anyway, with wrestling promoters about to be put in charge of public education and accused criminals at the top of the DOJ. It's all good. A situation best served with sacrificial lamb; I assume these animals are eaten as part of the sacrifices as they are in Islamic rituals.

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some lamb sounds good right about now I agree.

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Nov 7Liked by Yasha Levine

I think I must have read one of her papers at some point. It was honestly quite sad. There's a part where one of the informants says that when she and her community first became Noahides they loved celebrating Shabbat, but then the rabbis took a more active role and forbade it.

I first found out about this on the subreddit r/exjews, which I like to scroll sometimes. (I also look at Haredi news media now and then.) It's worth taking a look at if you're interested in the forms Jewish life is taking in this country.

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Nov 7·edited Nov 7Liked by Yasha Levine

(I think it's on borrowed time, even in its more religious forms. The social basis for classical Judaism simply does not exist anymore. It takes extremely strenuous, self-conscious effort to shut out modernity. If the states where these communities exist ever manage to impose real educational standards for secular learning in Yeshivot and day schools it'll be over in a generation or two. That's not to mention the toxic intercommunal and intracommunal dynamics and the fact that their growing size, combined with their economic narrowness, renders them unsustainable.)

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...20 years ago the Christian fundamentalists at the Air Force Academy were still of the Jew-hating variety.https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2005/04/acad-a30.html

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Messianic Christianity and millenarian thought more generally have a long history at the upper reaches of American military policy. It had to be over twenty years ago now that it came out that USAF officers being trained to operate ICBM sites were being fed fundamentalist Christian rhetoric. Guess it was about 15 years ago...

https://truthout.org/articles/jesus-loves-nukes-air-force-cites-new-testament-exnazi-to-train-officers-on-ethics-of-launching-nuclear-weapons/

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