{"id":156,"date":"2022-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2022-10-07T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T18:29:45","slug":"round-about-when-i-started-to-wonder-about-this-st-paul-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/round-about-when-i-started-to-wonder-about-this-st-paul-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"Round About When I Started to Wonder About This St Paul Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>i would simply be a decent human being and spread my religion using appealingly universal sounding language (\u201cinescapably true\u201d), crude psychological appeals (\u201ci don\u2019t like you as a person\u201d), emotional blackmail (your current religion is \u201cinherently xenophobic\u201d), haughty commands (\u201cyou are now being instructed\u201d), demonisation of the opposition (\u201ca model of xenophobia and bigotry\u201d) and outright paypigging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>judaism, of course, centres jews and places gentiles in an irrelevant periphery. if you are not a jew, then there is very little in judaism of interest to you in the \u201cadopting the worldview department after reading a heart searing appeal\u201d department unless you are into the whole abject \u201clooking in from outside\u201d pariah thing, or are willing to be entirely seduced into the worldview via a series of intense fictive kinship rituals up to and including genital mods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>which is why this strange kind of \u201cnot meeeeeeee\u201d tumblr judaism is so funny to me, because it is so obviously an attempt to proselytise this angry tumblr jewish worldview among the nations under the guise of \u201cproselytism is bad\u201d, and one that seems to work quite well because, of course, this is tumblr where abject pariahs jump around like fleas on a hot metal surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i would simply be a decent human being and spread my religion using appealingly universal sounding language (\u201cinescapably true\u201d), crude psychological appeals (\u201ci don\u2019t like you as a person\u201d), emotional blackmail (your current religion is \u201cinherently xenophobic\u201d), haughty commands (\u201cyou &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/round-about-when-i-started-to-wonder-about-this-st-paul-guy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-religion","tag-tumblr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oligomath.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}