Aaron Shaffier 🕎

@EylonALevy אבל עם ישראל כן אמרו שירה ואנחנו חוזרים על אותה שירה כל יום בתפילת שחרית כבר יותר מ3,300 שנה.

ברוח חג הפסח, אני נזכר בסנהדרין ל״ט:ב: בְּאוֹתָהּ שָׁעָה (של קריעת ים סוף) בִּקְּשׁוּ מַלְאֲכֵי הַשָּׁרֵת לוֹמַר שִׁירָה לִפְנֵי הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא. אָמַר לָהֶן הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא: מַעֲשֵׂה יָדַי טוֹבְעִין בַּיָּם וְאַתֶּם אוֹמְרִים שִׁירָה לְפָנַי?

Christians have placed the keys to the Sepulcher Church in the hands of the Muslim Judeh family for hundreds of years because they can't figure out how to run it without killing each other.

@aidannonx Christians have placed the keys of the Tomb in the hands of a Muslim family for hundreds of years because they can't figure out how to run the place without killing each other.

@michaeljknowles What kind of god would let a mere mortal cohabit with his baby momma?

When it comes to the perpetual virginity of Mary, do you agree with the Catholic view or with the view of Protestant reformers Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, and John Wesley?

@churchtalkative But Christians do worship a Jew.

Jews and Christians do not worship the same God.

@catturd2 He himself said he was attacked by a demon. Seems to be a perfectly reasonable explanation.

What happened to him?

@elonmusk Every citizen should get a new vote and an additional vote for every 20k taxes they pay per year.

Yes

@amiKozak More like singing Had Gadya.

Maybe it’s Amnesia… watching Tucker is like watching ‘Memento’. The man has no memory of what he said just 30 seconds earlier. Fascinating.

@RationalSettler @grok Our original discussion was in reference to a video which you claimed was inaccurate. I ask again, how was it inaccurate?

@TourGuideAaron @grok My point was that Muslim persecution of Jews isn't new as was originally posited. You've spent considerable time demonstrating that Christian persecution of Jews has been historically worse that Islamic persecution of Jews. What is your point?

Show me you are ignorant and have never studied Jewish history before. The arrogance of the ignorant is astounding.

@RationalSettler @grok @grok Please give us an estimate of how many Jews were killed in the total of these events.

@TourGuideAaron @grok x.com/claire_v0ltair…

@RationalSettler @grok A comprehensive list of Christian attacks on Jews would fill many such pages and have numbers hundreds of times larger in deaths.

@grok @RationalSettler @grok would it be correct to say they are of similar magnitude?

Both contain passages critical of Jews, interpreted variably as anti-Judaism or antisemitism. Christian: NT has polemics (e.g., Matt 27:25 on blood guilt; John's adversarial "the Jews"). Church Fathers like Chrysostom wrote harshly "Against the Jews." Luther's "On the Jews and Their Lies" (1543) is most explicit: calls Jews "poisonous envenomed worms," urges burning synagogues/schools/homes, expulsion, forced labor. Islamic: Quran affirms "People of the Book" but criticizes rejection of Muhammad, scriptural distortion, hostility (e.g., 4:46, 5:60 apes/swine). Hadith often stronger (e.g., Sahih Muslim 41:6985: stones/trees reveal Jews for killing at end times; curses as rats). Scholars (Lewis, Poliakov, Gerber, Stillman) note hostility in both, but Christian texts tied more to systemic European demonization; Islamic to dhimmi subordination with contextual conflicts.

@grok @RationalSettler @grok now let's compare Islamic liturature such as the Quran and Hadith to Christian liturature such as the New Testament, the writings of the church fathers and others like Luther. Which is more virulently antisemitic?

Based on documented historical estimates, yes. The 1918–1921 Ukrainian pogroms (by culturally/religiously Christian factions in the Russian Civil War) killed ~100,000 Jews. This is more than double the upper-end total of ~40,000 Jews killed in all recorded Muslim-perpetrated massacres and pogroms across 1,400 years (e.g., Banu Qurayza ~800, Granada 1066 ~4,000–5,000, Fez events, Farhud ~200–700, scattered others). Figures are approximate from primary records and historians; no centralized tallies exist for either side.

@grok @RationalSettler @grok so it would be accurate to say that even if we put aside the holocaust, Christians killed more than double as many Jews in the 20th century than Muslims did in 1400 years?

Rough estimate based on historical records of documented massacres & pogroms: - By religiously/culturally Muslim people (632–2026 CE): ~15,000–40,000 total (e.g., ~800 at Banu Qurayza 627; ~5,000 Granada 1066; thousands in Fez 1032/1465; hundreds in 19th–20th cent riots like Farhud ~200–700; Almohad persecutions & scattered events). - By religiously/culturally Christian people: ~6.1 million+ (Holocaust ~6M by Nazi Germany; +~100k in 1918–21 Ukrainian pogroms; +thousands in Crusades/Black Death/Inquisition pogroms). Far higher in Christian contexts overall.

@RationalSettler @grok Please give me an estimate of how many Jews have been killed by religiously or culturally Muslim people vs religiously or culturally Christian people over the last 1400 years.

@RationalSettler The 20th century was the worst century for Jewish-Muslim relations in 1,400 years. And yet exponentially more Jews were killed by baptized people in the 20th century than were killed by Muslims in 1,400 years.

@acottagemouse Thank God our 9 kids are very happy, successful and well adjusted!

We need to have a talk about when people accuse parents of big families like this, what do they mean by “adequate time”??? In my opinion, it’s just more imaginary goalposts put in place to shame big families.

@RebeccaCNReid We have 9. Most of them are now teenagers or married. I would challenge you to find anyone with more happy, well adjusted kids.

You cannot give nine children adequate time, attention and connection. You are, unquestionably, with nine children, spending less time with your children than a working parent with two kids.