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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]New poster here.  I can't possibly read all forty pages.

When I was a kid, our parish priest held a seder.  The purpose was to show a connection between the two faiths, and I think it was very helpful.

The important thing is not whether Jesus ate bitter herbs or not or whether he asked the four questions. Jesus is inextricably tied to the Passover.  He is the paschal lamb of the New Testament.  His sacrifice is meant to mirror the sacrifice of the lamb in Egypt.  His blood is the blood of the lamb on the doorways of the Israelites.  [/quote]

That's all fine to believe, of course! Clearly there's a lot of Christian theological thought about how to link the New Testament with the Old Testament. As a Jew, what I find offensive about [i]some[/i] Christian seders is the additional layer that suggests that OUR Passover rituals/story/beliefs also prefigure Jesus, and therefore, that we're doing it wrong if we don't see the holiday and the story the way you do.

I stopped reading this thread about 17 pages in, so maybe someone covered this in the 20+ pages since then, but there's a very long history of anti-Semitic violence and persecution specifically tied to Passover and Easter (since it wasn't all that long ago that official church teachings held that we, the Jews, killed Christ). So that's sort of an underlying issue on top of the questions of cultural appropriation.

Personally, I don't have any problem with Christians celebrating their version of Passover. It's when the liturgy or their teachings suggest that we should also be celebrating it that way that I get offended. And I do think that the cultural outrage around, say, a mosque that decided to do a sort of Islam-ified version of some major Christian holiday would be way louder than any of the complaints Jews make about Christian versions of Passover... which might be worth thinking about before deciding Jews are just being silly or stubborn in insisting that our own religious traditions are entirely distinct from yours.[/quote]

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