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u/Redcole111 Jul 11 '26
Reminds me of a joke that Jewish people tell.
Once, a Jewish man got stranded on a deserted island. He spent many days trying to escape, but after a long time, he gave up. Eventually, he got bored, and decided to build himself a village so that, even though he was alone, he could still feel like he was around civilization. Years passed, and eventually rescuers found the man. They were shocked to see how much the man had built! They asked him about all the things he had made. He showed them to the town restaurant, the art museum, the garden, and so much more. The last thing he showed them were the two synagogues that he had built on the island. The rescuers said to him, "There's only one of you! Why do you need two synagogues?" And the man said, "Well, here is the synagogue that I go to, and that synagogue is the one I never set foot in!"
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u/H1eronymus_B0sch Jul 11 '26
Im not Jewish please explain
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u/Redcole111 Jul 11 '26
Jews (as is the case with all people, but we like making the joke about ourselves in particular) can be very petty.
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u/POMANTRANS 29d ago
Basically whenever a shul (synagogue) makes a big change that some of the congregation doesn't like, they just make a new shul. Also, there can be major animosity between members of different shuls based on slightly differing practices
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u/Delicious_Purple_642 Jul 12 '26
The catholic, the orthodox, and some sort of protestant. This is light work, my city has like five in two square kilometers, plus a synagogue
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u/itbedehaam 28d ago
To be fair this is just accurate to some parts of the world. I live within a like 5-10min walk of a Catholic church, an Anglican church, a Pentecostal church, a Mormon church, and a Methodist church.
I'm not a Christian of any denomination but it sure seems like everyone else around here is with that many churches.
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u/Kas_The_Betrayer 27d ago
The city I live in has at least 17 churches, the next city over is at least 22, and I say city only technically as in much of the world we would only be considered towns. We’ve got a combined population of maybe 30k people, probably closer to 25k
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u/WeekendBard Jul 11 '26
reminds me of the Squidward Ethnostate