MIL trying to send MY Jewish kids to Bible camp!

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Anonymous wrote:If being Jewish was so important to you OP and you react this way to just one week of bible camp you should really have just married a Jewish guy. Wow is all I can say.

She is Jewish. He's agreed to raise them Jewish. End of story. His family does not get a piece here.

People are seriously stupid.

OP needs that stick out of her ass stat.

Sorry, Christian granny. You can't put this on OP at all.

FWIW, I'm an atheist mama. You really need to broaden your horizons. Maybe a Bible Camp would do you good

Did you even read the thread? Idiot.

But but but! OP just needs to broaden her horizons and allow her kids to be stealth baptized and sent to a bible camp at an evangelical megachurch. God, what a stick in the mud OP must be to keep refusing to allow her children to be converted to a religion of her MILs choosing. I don't know if this deserves more of a for being blatantly ridiculous or an for being so obnoxious.

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Anonymous wrote:If being Jewish was so important to you OP and you react this way to just one week of bible camp you should really have just married a Jewish guy. Wow is all I can say.

She is Jewish. He's agreed to raise them Jewish. End of story. His family does not get a piece here.

People are seriously stupid.

OP needs that stick out of her ass stat.

Sorry, Christian granny. You can't put this on OP at all.

FWIW, I'm an atheist mama. You really need to broaden your horizons. Maybe a Bible Camp would do you good

Did you even read the thread? Idiot.

Yes, Christian grandmas suck ass.

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We all agree that op wants her kids to be Jewish. My question to you, Op is why didn't you marry a Jew? Why are you ignoring this question?

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Anonymous wrote:Op you sound very disrespectful to your husband's family and faith. I grew up in a mixed faith marriage and knew lots of mixed faith kids. All were exposed to both religions. Your kids will likely decide to be something other than Jewish later in life anyways. You should have married a Jew if your so hateful and intolerant of other religions.

You sound like an ass because you posted some pretty strong sentiments without even reading all of OP's posts. Ass.

Why are you so fired up, I think you've posted repeatedly. Perhaps your OP regardless seems like you PP could use a little Jesus Christ in your life. I know there an opening in VBS for this week.

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Anonymous wrote:We all agree that op and her husband are raising their kids Jewish. My question to you, Op is why didn't you marry a Jew? Why are you ignoring this question?

Fixed that first sentence for you. As for your second, maybe because the question is irrelevant to OP's post and not the smoking gun you're trying to portray it as?

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The Jews on this thread questioning ops choice of marriage to a man who fully agreed to raise her kids Jewish and are on the same page as her are just as offensive as the Christian insensitives saying op should open up her horizons to Jesus camp. Ops kids are Jewish, and if she married a Jew maybe she would be on this board complaining about her neurotic overbearing Jewish mother in law on some other matter.

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We all agree that op and her husband are raising their kids Jewish. My question to you, Op is why didn't you marry a Jew? Why are you ignoring this question?


Fixed that first sentence for you. As for your second, maybe because the question is irrelevant to OP's post and not the smoking gun you're trying to portray it as?

But her husband isn't on here complaining. How do we know he wasn't brow beated to raise the kids Jewish? Has he converted? That makes a difference.

All I am saying is if a Catholic woman wanted to raise her kids Catholic and then marries a Muslim man people are going to question how serious a Catholic she is. Like it or not, her kids are not 100 percent Jewish. If she wants her kids to have any relationship with the grandparents she also has to give a little. One week of bible camp is not going to take away all the Jewish education that she and her husband are giving three hundred and fifty-eight days.

OP, what did you tell your kids? Were they disappointed?

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Anonymous wrote:If being Jewish was so important to you OP and you react this way to just one week of bible camp you should really have just married a Jewish guy. Wow is all I can say.

She is Jewish. He's agreed to raise them Jewish. End of story. His family does not get a piece here.

People are seriously stupid.

OP needs that stick out of her ass stat.

Sorry, Christian granny. You can't put this on OP at all.

FWIW, I'm an atheist mama. You really need to broaden your horizons. Maybe a Bible Camp would do you good

Did you even read the thread? Idiot.

But but but! OP just needs to broaden her horizons and allow her kids to be stealth baptized and sent to a bible camp at an evangelical megachurch. God, what a stick in the mud OP must be to keep refusing to allow her children to be converted to a religion of her MILs choosing. I don't know if this deserves more of a for being blatantly ridiculous or an for being so obnoxious.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure why all these pps are ok with Jewish kids going to Christian camp. I am Orthodox Christian, and there is no way my kids are going to Catholic school or camp, even if it is free or "just for a break for grandma." If it is really that Grandma needs a little daily break, OP should have paid for some camp for kids that they both agree on.

Well, you might take religion more seriously than some of us.

And, you know, if you are mixing religions in a marriage you can't be that religious. Unless the other spouse converted which I don't think is the case.
We had friends who said they celebrated 'birthmas' or 'chrismukkak' or 'Festivus' or whatever. Totally made up holidays they mostly just celebrated being with family on holidays - they weren't really into the specific religious ceremonies as one parent was Catholic and one Jewish.

Same pp as above. I didn't mix different Christian branches in "marriage." Married another Orthodox Christian, it just happened that way, it is a love match. It depends on occasion how religious I am, some days not at all and some days more so. I view religion more as a tradition that is used to maintain customs and build family strength. But I do have atheist BIL and SIL who are now going to church every Sunday to give their kids options. I must admit, I don't quite understand their reasoning, but to each their own.

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We all agree that op and her husband are raising their kids Jewish. My question to you, Op is why didn't you marry a Jew? Why are you ignoring this question?


Fixed that first sentence for you. As for your second, maybe because the question is irrelevant to OP's post and not the smoking gun you're trying to portray it as?

But her husband isn't on here complaining. How do we know he wasn't brow beated to raise the kids Jewish? Has he converted? That makes a difference.

All I am saying is if a Catholic woman wanted to raise her kids Catholic and then marries a Muslim man people are going to question how serious a Catholic she is. Like it or not, her kids are not 100 percent Jewish. If she wants her kids to have any relationship with the grandparents she also has to give a little. One week of bible camp is not going to take away all the Jewish education that she and her husband are giving three hundred and fifty-eight days.

OP, what did you tell your kids? Were they disappointed?

Not 100% Jewish? How so? OP never said they were raising them in any religion other than Judaism. OP and her DH decide the religion for their family, no one else.

And it sounds like it's not necessarily worth having a relationship with this MIL...

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I've never seen so much support for a MIL ever on DCUM. Hmmm....

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Anonymous wrote:Op you sound very disrespectful to your husband's family and faith. I grew up in a mixed faith marriage and knew lots of mixed faith kids. All were exposed to both religions. Your kids will likely decide to be something other than Jewish later in life anyways. You should have married a Jew if your so hateful and intolerant of other religions.

You sound like an ass because you posted some pretty strong sentiments without even reading all of OP's posts. Ass.

Why are you so fired up, I think you've posted repeatedly. Perhaps your OP regardless seems like you PP could use a little Jesus Christ in your life. I know there an opening in VBS for this week.

At the same evangelical megachurch that OP's MIL attends? That'd be fun. NOT! I think I'd rather go to hell.

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Anonymous wrote:If being Jewish was so important to you OP and you react this way to just one week of bible camp you should really have just married a Jewish guy. Wow is all I can say.

This shit has all got to be the same person.

So weird how people seem to have serious issues (whether they admit it or not) with the fact that being Jewish is BOTH a religion and a distinct ethnic identity, since Jews were historically not allowed to assimilate into other states in which they lived. Its like some Christians seem to think that when Jewish people assert this and that Christians can't assert the same thing that they feel slighted, like they feel like they need to say "you aren't special, my religion is the same as yours, just as important". Which, sure, dogma is dogma but its just not the same. Its not, you are talking about a person's ethnicity. If they are also moderately religious then its nearly impossible for Jews to separate the two and they shouldn't have to. And for some reason this bothers some Christians deeply. Christianity, whichever sect is separate from ethnicity of its practitioners. Some things are not apples to apples. It reminds me of the knee jerk "all lives matter" for some reason.

FWIW, I'm an athiest, I find Judaism (the religious portion strictly) to be just as sort of unbelievable as Christianity, Scientology, Paganism, all the eastern belief systems (yes, I know them and the difference, but trying to not list everything), Greek and Roman gods, et al.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure why all these pps are ok with Jewish kids going to Christian camp. I am Orthodox Christian, and there is no way my kids are going to Catholic school or camp, even if it is free or "just for a break for grandma." If it is really that Grandma needs a little daily break, OP should have paid for some camp for kids that they both agree on.

Well, you might take religion more seriously than some of us.

And, you know, if you are mixing religions in a marriage you can't be that religious. Unless the other spouse converted which I don't think is the case.
We had friends who said they celebrated 'birthmas' or 'chrismukkak' or 'Festivus' or whatever. Totally made up holidays they mostly just celebrated being with family on holidays - they weren't really into the specific religious ceremonies as one parent was Catholic and one Jewish.

Same pp as above. I didn't mix different Christian branches in "marriage." Married another Orthodox Christian, it just happened that way, it is a love match. It depends on occasion how religious I am, some days not at all and some days more so. I view religion more as a tradition that is used to maintain customs and build family strength. But I do have atheist BIL and SIL who are now going to church every Sunday to give their kids options. I must admit, I don't quite understand their reasoning, but to each their own.

What the heck is an "Orthodox Christian"? The first Christians were Catholics. The first Protestants were Lutherans. There are Greek Orthodox. To say one Christian denomination is more "Orthodox" is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure why all these pps are ok with Jewish kids going to Christian camp. I am Orthodox Christian, and there is no way my kids are going to Catholic school or camp, even if it is free or "just for a break for grandma." If it is really that Grandma needs a little daily break, OP should have paid for some camp for kids that they both agree on.

Well, you might take religion more seriously than some of us.

And, you know, if you are mixing religions in a marriage you can't be that religious. Unless the other spouse converted which I don't think is the case.
We had friends who said they celebrated 'birthmas' or 'chrismukkak' or 'Festivus' or whatever. Totally made up holidays they mostly just celebrated being with family on holidays - they weren't really into the specific religious ceremonies as one parent was Catholic and one Jewish.

Same pp as above. I didn't mix different Christian branches in "marriage." Married another Orthodox Christian, it just happened that way, it is a love match. It depends on occasion how religious I am, some days not at all and some days more so. I view religion more as a tradition that is used to maintain customs and build family strength. But I do have atheist BIL and SIL who are now going to church every Sunday to give their kids options. I must admit, I don't quite understand their reasoning, but to each their own.

What the heck is an "Orthodox Christian"? The first Christians were Catholics. The first Protestants were Lutherans. There are Greek Orthodox. To say one Christian denomination is more "Orthodox" is ridiculous.

I find it interesting that you would broadcast your lack of education so easily. First Christians were what? Catholics? Really? I don't think so. There are Greek Orthodox only? Wow. You shouldn't write about things you know nothing about, I am embarrassed for you.