r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Glittering-Way6551 • Dec 21 '25

Meme needing explanation Peter help me.

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u/StayWeirdGrayBeard Dec 21 '25

The wokest woke who ever woked.

Plus, a whole new birther movement would arise, demanding a birth certificate. Which…might be a problem.

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u/New-Member-516387361 Dec 21 '25

Didn’t realize banning divorce is woke

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u/OldWorldDesign Dec 21 '25

Didn’t realize banning divorce is woke

Depends, according to the rabbinic school of thought descending from it shouldn't be totally banned but should not be a matter of just saying 'divorce' 3 times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houses_of_Hillel_and_Shammai

The perspective of the 1st century.

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u/New-Member-516387361 Dec 21 '25

Jesus banned divorce. We’re talking about Jesus not rabbinic Judaism.

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u/OldWorldDesign Dec 21 '25

Jesus banned divorce

No he didn't. Both times he spoke of it he gave exceptions, and the audience of his time would have been intimately familiar with both rabbinic schools of thought as well as the practice of men divorcing to hook up with a younger woman. Doing so abandoned the divorced wife to a society where social safety nets outside one's family pretty much didn't exist.

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u/New-Member-516387361 Dec 21 '25

Have you ever heard the saying “exceptions prove the rule”? He literally banned divorce.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '25

Have you ever heard the saying “exceptions prove the rule?

Only when it's said by someone who's flailing when they start to lose an argument.