[dreamcastegirl]

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Originally Posted by ShiShiLeo

What happened? Are you talking about the Haouken Xross Saber?

I am.

I'm not really being serious though, only teasing, because, well, if I give Evangelion a pass in its homeginised conflation of Jewish thought and Christian imagery, then I can hardly pick a fight with Saber. But still, when I heard that name, I was like... you couldn't have called it Star Saber? Not only would that have been cool, it would have been representative of Jewish imagery rather than just a liberal borrowing of Jewish ideas and then a big old reference to Jesus, who, historically, we've had a bit of a rocky relationship with the followers of.

Again, I'm not really annoyed, because this stuff is pretty much everywhere in pop culture now, but I think a lot of people forget that Kabbalah isn't something that is a dead practice or something reconstructed in the past two centuries, as is the case of Greek or Norse worship, but something that is very much alive and very much integral to certain branches of Orthodox Judaism.

Thank you for enrolling in Theology and Tokusatsu 101. I'll be your teacher for this semester.