זשאַבע-זיללאַ<p>This puts the Op in Propaganda</p><p>"By the time we arrive at the scene of <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jesus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jesus</span></a> flipping the merchants’ tables in the Temple, <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> are firmly established as the villains. “My house should be a house of prayer for all nations, but you have made it a den of thieves,” Jesus shouts at the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Pharisees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Pharisees</span></a> after he ransacks the Temple market.</p><p>That quote is straight from the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/gospels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gospels</span></a>, just as much canon as Judas and the Pharisees turning Jesus in; the story is what it is. But the villainous depiction of the Jews is not part of the text.</p><p>Of course, the necessity of presenting Jesus’ teachings as better than the existing <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> practices is only mandatory if the show’s aim is to proselytize — which the show’s writers have claimed it is not; they’re just making good <a href="https://babka.social/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TV</span></a>, they said. But if the writing choices didn’t make the show’s <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> mission clear enough, it’s made explicit by the testimonials the show posts from viewers about how the show brought them closer to Jesus."</p><p><a href="https://forward.com/culture/710770/the-chosen-last-supper-passover-antisemitism-jewish/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forward.com/culture/710770/the</span><span class="invisible">-chosen-last-supper-passover-antisemitism-jewish/</span></a></p>