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GhosTaoiseach t1_j1nxot1 wrote

Reply to That time Jesus got hangry by david-braintree

Y’all are gonna shit a brick when you hear about Matthew 15. The traditional interpretation is that Jesus was testing the woman’s resolve. The modern interpretation would be that Jesus was racist for one hot second until he was convinced otherwise.

In the story Christ allegedly calls all non-Jews “little dogs,” with the original phrasing meaning something akin to pets.

21 Leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon. 22 A Canaanite woman from that vicinity came to him, crying out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me! My daughter is demon-possessed and suffering terribly.”

23 Jesus did not answer a word. So his disciples came to him and urged him, “Send her away, for she keeps crying out after us.”

24 He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.”

25 The woman came and knelt before him. “Lord, help me!” she said.

26 He replied, “It is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

27 “Yes it is, Lord,” she said. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.”

28 Then Jesus said to her, “Woman, you have great faith! Your request is granted.” And her daughter was healed at that moment.

I think the point that we should all draw from this is that just because a certain somebody, which we aren’t even sure who that somebody was, wrote something a really long time ago doesn’t make it divinely inspired.

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