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[quote=Anonymous]I can.  I am a Catholic.  As a Catholic, I feel it is very valuable for me to understand what the Seder is about so that I can have a deeper feeling for what that event meant to Jesus and his disciples.  I appreciate that you do not accept Jesus as the Messiah, but the reality is that Jesus was a Jew.  He did not actually set out to create a new religion, he set out to reform the religion of his day.  Also, as a pretty liberal Catholic who has many Jewish friends, participating in a Seder gives me a greater appreciation for their rituals and improves my understanding of the practice of Judaism.  Done properly, a Christian recreation of the Seder at Easter is a wonderful expression of interfaith understanding  and of our joint belief in the same God.  Granted, not all churches do them properly (I prefer a pretty faithful recreation of an actual Seder), and not all will necessarily share my point of view exactly, but I really don't think this is something to be up in arms about.  I don't get annoyed when our fairly secular Jewish friends put up a Christmas tree.  I know that's not a fair analogy, but the reality is no one is trying to mock or co-opt Judaism through this practice.  [/quote]

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