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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You missed the point.  I'm offensively irreverent at times, but I wouldn't dismiss my niece's First Communion as insignificant and unworthy of my time and attention. But mostly, that would be out of respect to the kid.    
Agreed though, that you can't raise a culturally Jewish kid as a Christian.  But I think OP has the message, so let's not beat up on her.[/quote]

its getting confusing because posters are jumping back and forth between missing the 1st communion and the treating christianity as a joke (which I read as making jokes about Jesus, but not having been present, cannot say for sure)

I do not know why the family missed the first communion - I dont know much about first communions in general, I dont know about the nature of the "culturally Jewish" family that sent the invite, and I dont know the family that didnt show.    I have had intermarried relatives (my cousin, but she got divorced - I did attend the wedding - no kids, no first communions) but I could imagine being uncomfortable with a relative who was christian and ostentatiously blended that with Judaism, in a way I might find more offensive than Christianity (whose art, music, and history interest me)

But I do know that Jews make fun of Christianity, have for hundreds of years, and that its a very understandable, in some ways a very healthy way to deal with their situation. The situation may be different now (though there are still issues living in a christian country esp for observant jews) but Im hardly ready to give up the humor as a way of dealig with things, including minority status  (I have instead tried to use that heritage to gain insight into how other minorities deal with outsider status). And I suggest that before people think of themselves as culturally Jewish Christians, they might conside exactly what they mean by culturally Jewish - assuming jews, even unassimilated Jews, are just gentiles who spin dreidels may lead to misunderstandings, in some instances.[/quote]

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