I’d like to explain for any goyim or Jews who aren’t well-versed in Halacha: Niddah is a time period around the menstruation period, during which a person has the status of being ritually impure. During that time, they cannot do certain things that require ritual purity. If someone touches them then this status is passed on. To be ritually pure again, a person must visit a mikveh, a ritual bath.
Because of the complex nature of Jewish law related to menstruation and conception, hormonal birth control is allowed, even by the more strict interpretations of Halacha. Generally, observant Jews don’t use barrier methods.
It is also required to prioritize the life of a pregnant person over the life of a fetus if a conflict between the two should arise.
Yet another reminder that when these people talk about birth control and abortion in reference to religious freedom, they mean Christian freedom. They don’t give a shit about anyone else.
As was brought up when I saw this on Facebook, Judaism might require birth control in some circumstances. Like for me, where I would die if I was forced to carry another pregnancy to term. My actual life comes first.
On this and ALL OTHER issues, they really, REALLY only mean Xtian freedom, except when they can mayyyybe coopt a very specific branch of some other tradition that conveniently holds the same as they do on this specific issue, in order to wave that tradition in front of everyone like a flag to go “see look it’s not just us YOU’RE ALL PREJUDICED AGAINST [whoever they’re using as their smoke-screen this time]!”
They will, of course, later abandon this connection the minute that group happens to want, need or believe something that is contrary to their perspective, without any irony, because religious freedom really only matters for them.
It used to be the fucking rage when I first joined the homestuck fandom so it always makes me feel kind of nostalgic every now and then. It’s weird to think back on it that everyone was scrambling to sing like homestuck characters like 5 yrs ago.
You know what I absolutely fucking loathe? The western christian concept of eternal damnation.
Like??? You wanna know what the Sumerians believed the afterlife was? Sitting. On a rock. Peacefully. Forever. The earliest Jewish concept of the afterlife? Laying deep within the earth in eternal rest. Egyptians were the first to implement the idea that punishment; if your heart was /really really/ bad, it would be eaten by a lion-crocodile. Otherwise you would get to work a field forever (unless you were a Pharoah, you became a god then.) Similarly the Greeks had the idea that unless you were extremely bad (like murdered people for fun/were unnecessarily cruel/pissed off the gods) you’d get to stand in a field forever amongst your loved ones.
And it doesn’t help that our concept of religion is fucked up to begin with, no one else treated it as something you’d have to live and breathe lest you burn in hell for all eternity. I hate christian values mainly for this reason; the dogma, the threats, the hate that the christian god will inflict upon you for eternity if you do nit heed his command. I hate it so much and I wish everyone could see how antagonistic it is to the message of love and forgiveness that Jesus stood for.
you know how cartoon characters usually only have one outfit they’re always in? reblog this post with what your one outfit would be if you were a cartoon character.
mine would be my black shorts, a snapback, a t shirt, and my denim vest with a picture of a UFO on the back
I really really really hate “humor” where the setup is making someone feel bad and then the punchline is that you actually supported/approved of them all along. I can’t stand dumbass comics where someone comes out as gay and the other person is like “this is unacceptable” and you’re like “oh god I know that feeling of heart-sinking rejection” and then the next panel the person is like “unacceptable that you took this long to tell me I love you no mater what!!!”
that’s actually a really tame example compared to the bullshit I see all the time so let me tell you that it’s literally just Not Funny At All to make someone think you’re about to reject them for their gender identity, sexuality, race, etc. to set up some punchline of acceptance.
Not to be dramatic but it’s literally so fucking stupid and annoying just so ya know.
the reason I find it especially weird and stupid is that it’s so often people who AREN’T part of the group in question who make these jokes and draw these comics.
So it’s literally like people saying “hahaha wasn’t that funny? I made you think for a second that I hated you but it turns out I’m super progressive and understanding.”
Fuck off
It’s kinda like when someone goes to punch you and you instinctively flich or go to protect yourself, and then they laugh at you for it
