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actually they do this-it's a standard missionary technique to go to, say a buddhist country, and attend religious ceremonies, to gather "intelligence", to make Yeshu appear sort of like buddha, then pounce. what I never understood is why, since Yeshu is shown celebrating most or all Jewish holidays, xians ignore all of them. they should honor them as he did. their counter, of course, is that he somehw "sealed" them, by celebrating. no nt documentation, of course. the real reason, of course, is that the church councils, when they re-invented xianity, wanted to distance themself from the jews as much as possible. feasts became fasts, and vice versa. Yeshu is recorded as celebrating hanukah, the feast of dedication, which was only 200 years old, and brand new. I have asked xians many times, the response being confusion or laughter.


good thing. i would not want all the other religions to feel left out when it comes to xians infilatrating their communities to gather "intelligence." :rolleyes and there are many xians that attempt (and they do it poorly if you read how they explain their way of celebrating) to celebrate our holidays but they do so by trying to put their man-god into all of them. by doing so, they make a mockary out of that which was given to US not them. they make up their own ways of celebrating that which is set in stone. what a mockary. if their man-god existed at all, he may have been jewish and therefore would celebrate jewish holidays. however, xians are NOT jews. there are xians out there that claim they "love" us and want to build bridges with us. if they want to do this then they should respect what is ours and leave it alone. hijacking our holidays is no different than them walking into their neighbors home and claiming for their own, that which belongs to the neighbor. where is the "love" in that? where is the bridge building in that? stealing from those you claim to "love?"

i wonder what xians would do if jews came into their churches and decided to change all their holidays to the way that we want them. why heck, lets just go into their churches and try to make all things xian jewish. works for them. should work for us.