WHEN OREGON MUSIC teacher Susan Lewis logged onto a Zoom meeting with her boss one afternoon in August 2024, she thought she would be preparing for a sixth year teaching at Valley Catholic School. Instead, she lost her job.
Lewis was shocked, she recalled in an interview with The Intercept, as were her colleagues and students. The school did not give any explanation for why they did not renew her contract. Unbeknownst to Lewis, the pro-Israel blacklist organization StopAntisemitism had recently launched an online campaign against her, framing her social media posts about the genocide in Gaza as “using her platform to spread vile antisemitic hate online.”
She sued StopAntisemitism for defamation in an Oregon state court over the summer, and the case was elevated to federal court last month. Her suit faces long odds, legal experts told The Intercept, but serves as a rare chance to register public dissent in the courts against the group’s targeting.
Given that Jesus wasn’t the messiah… they’re two peas in a pod.
if you're curious as to what I mean by Jesus not being a messiah.
Depending on how much of the gospels you assume are true… if Jesus is son of god by marry… then he can’t be the messiah at all and Joseph’s lineage is meaningless. The entire reason they gave it is that the Messiah was supposed to be of David’s direct line.
If you go with Mathew’s lineage, he can’t be the messiah because Jeconiah (son of Jacob), gone done fucked up and got cursed. (The curse being that none of his descendents would ever be king.) But even if you accept all of that, Jesus was never anointed the king of Israel and never actually ruled anywhere.
Of course Christians will then retcon all of the messianic prophecies to be “oh they meant a ‘spiritual’ king!” cuz, yeah. that’s totally what the messianic prophecies meant. (they meant that there would be a king who was also a high priest, of the line of david, who would defeat all of Israel’s enemies, and conquer the world and then we would <shifts into Paplatine’s Voice> have everlasting peace.)