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Don't you get it? The in laws are undermining BOTH parents regarding a fundamental choice they have made about their lives and their children's lives. OP's husband's family can continue to be Christian, but they should respect OP and her husband's decision that their family will be Jewish. And yes, that is the will of the nuclear family. Jews don't send their kids to Bible camp.

Yes, I get it.  But, I find it very interesting that someone who is very Jewish married a non-Jew.  No one has mentioned this and the Op has ignored the question.  If being Jewish is so important why not marry a Jew?  Than there would be a Jewish MIL and FIL.  Problem solved!

But, she didn't. If she doesn't want her children to have a relationship with their grandparents it may come back to bite them in the ass.  The children could resent having no relations with the grandparents and you are modeling how to treat you in the future.  What if they marry a Christian ( the horror)  and decide to raise their children Christian?  Would you try to sneak them into a Jewish camp?  If you did and the son in law canceled your visit with your grandchildren....honestly how would[b] you [/b]feel?[/quote]

If OP was unable to live with this kind of cognitive dissonance I don't understand why she married into a Christian family.

You see the in laws probably think OP and their son is terribly misguided and haven't seen the light.  By baptizing the grand kids, or trying to, they literally thought they were saving them from the error of their parents' ways.  At this point it's probably more or less an immutable characteristic.   So OP getting offended and telling the in laws they were "wrong" will simply not be effective.

Lots of Christians, even educated ones, have no clue about Jews or what Judaism is, other than as it is presented to them.  So, OP's inlaws probably think Jews are weird bitter ungrateful paranoid emotionally disturbed people, based on OP's conduct.  I mean seriously--what kind of mentally stable person would actually marry into a Christian family and evidently have no understanding of how a lot of Christians' minds works (especially older generations)?

The in laws were taught if you do not believe in Jesus you GO TO HELL.   So don't blame them from trying to save their grandkids from GOING TO HELL, because that's what they think they're trying to do, and you will never persuade them otherwise.  
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