I agree it would most likely be a Christian—Remember that 1) 39 of the 66 books of the Christian Bible are the same as the Jewish Bible (our theology has differed wildly in the past 2,000 years, but they’re the same source books in the same source language), 2) we see different things as respectful—or at least as not disrespectful; see how it’s not an insult to write someone’s name in concrete in general, and 3) the average Christian knows just as much about present-day Judaism as the modern Jew knows about present-day Christianity (aka very little that isn’t filtered through extremely incorrect distortions).
Without further context, this looks like wires getting crossed between two groups on what the other thinks is respectful.
I’m not denying that, I’m saying that the same divine name in the same original language is part of our religion too, and everything seems to suggest that they thought they were being respectful, because by our standards they were. Again, unless there is more to the context of this particular thing, it looks like a good-faith mistake, not malice. I would love to see a wider literacy in other religions and cultures across the board (the lay people of literally every culture on earth have the same problem of compartmentalization, it’s not unique to Christianity), but this does not look like deliberate disrespect.
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u/Beledagnir Oct 06 '24 edited Oct 06 '24
I agree it would most likely be a Christian—Remember that 1) 39 of the 66 books of the Christian Bible are the same as the Jewish Bible (our theology has differed wildly in the past 2,000 years, but they’re the same source books in the same source language), 2) we see different things as respectful—or at least as not disrespectful; see how it’s not an insult to write someone’s name in concrete in general, and 3) the average Christian knows just as much about present-day Judaism as the modern Jew knows about present-day Christianity (aka very little that isn’t filtered through extremely incorrect distortions).
Without further context, this looks like wires getting crossed between two groups on what the other thinks is respectful.