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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm Jewish and I can't understand why this would bother you, OP.  Honestly.  [/quote]

Why do I care?  Someone put it recently in a New Yorker article about Bar Mitzvahs for Evangelical Christian teenagers like this (paraphrasing) -- there's a difference between building bridges between religions to improve cultural understanding, and [b]building bridges so you can run across to the other side and grab goodies and run back[/b].  If it's to increase cultural understanding, great.

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Are you the OP? The irony of this post is that there are so many atheists and Jews who fire back at Christians around Christmas claiming that the secularization of CHRISTmas gives them a right to celebrate it and exchange gifts.  This is an interesting reversal - feeling offended that others do not respect the sanctity of your religious traditions.

That being said, Jesus was a Jew and celebrated his Last Supper with his disciples.  We recreate this during Palm Sunday masses every year.  I'm' not familiar with churches using the term Seder, but assuming it's done in a respectful manner designed to increase understanding of other faiths and of the experience of Jesus leading up to his crucifixion, I see no issues.

p.s. And I do agree that using terms like icky in your original post don't lead to a constructive dialogue.  "I'm uncomfortable with this" might have been a better choice of phrase.[/quote]

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