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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Moreover: We’ve been celebrating Passover since before Jesus.

The modern Passover Seder started in rabbinical Judaism, after the Second Temple was destroyed in 70 CE.

But it’s never been secular. [/quote]

So, atheist Jews who celebrate as a cultural tradition don’t count? [/quote]

I’m not sure that you understand what being an atheist Jew is.

But more broadly, the history of Passover is nothing like the history of the Christmas Tree, and comparing the two is really ignorant. With one, you’re talking about a secular origin story, and with the other, you’re talking about a sacred history, and some less religious adherents of an ethno-religious group celebrating it. Very different. [/quote]

The Christmas tree was an example of a Christian religious symbol that Jews (and other groups) have tweaked and applied to their own celebrations. It was an imperfect analogy.

However, the main point is that Passover is in the actual Christian Bible — the holy book shared by all the many denominations of Christianity. The word Passover, the unleavened bread, the exodus—all of it—is in the Bible. Trying to frame it’s place in Christian tradition as appropriation or “not Passover” is not okay. [/quote]

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