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I talk about why the Star Trek rip off "The Orville" has died for me and how the episode "All the World is Birthday Cake" from season 2 episode 5 that features "Astrology Nazis" and compares astrology to National Socialism, is actually spreading old antisemitic propaganda and not opposing it. Of course I get that the point of the episode (like in every other episode) is to attack religion... but isn't Judaism a religion? And even though the Nazis claimed that Jews would practice astrology and would therefore be superstitious or would even practice black magic or what not - nothing could e further from the truth and it really demonstrates an extremely poor and prejudiced understanding of religion...
By Emmanuel GoldsteinI talk about why the Star Trek rip off "The Orville" has died for me and how the episode "All the World is Birthday Cake" from season 2 episode 5 that features "Astrology Nazis" and compares astrology to National Socialism, is actually spreading old antisemitic propaganda and not opposing it. Of course I get that the point of the episode (like in every other episode) is to attack religion... but isn't Judaism a religion? And even though the Nazis claimed that Jews would practice astrology and would therefore be superstitious or would even practice black magic or what not - nothing could e further from the truth and it really demonstrates an extremely poor and prejudiced understanding of religion...