• frezik@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Pharisees and Sadducees are, in very broad terms, like Democrats and Republicans today. Sadducees tended to be wealthy and conservative, while the Pharisees were more about the common folk. At least on paper. In practice, maybe not so much. Like the way a lot of modern leftists hate the Democratic party, historical Jesus could very easily have hated the Pharisees while aligning somewhat with their stated positions. That certainly comes through in the literary version of Jesus.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah I am going to reject this analogy right off the bat.

      Also not sure why you are bringing the Sadducees into this. They were a rival sect not a political faction.

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        1 year ago

        Political and religious faction was not that separated at the time. Or even now, for that matter.

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          1 year ago

          You are allowed to back down from an argument btw.

          No the analogy between Pharisees and Sadducees and DNC and GOP does not work.

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              1 year ago

              Can you please spend some effort in your responses instead of just little quips. You made a really bad analogy and you won’t retract it or defend it. Me being a bad debate partner in your eyes at least doesn’t mean you have to be worse.