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Posted by Nilet on Tue Apr 26 20:42:23 2016, in response to Re: It Is Now Passover., posted by Mitch45 on Tue Apr 26 19:55:35 2016. Religion is, or should be, a personal thing.Agreed, albeit with more emphasis on the "should be" rather than the "is." All I ask that you be a nice person and don't try to force me to be something I'm not. No one's asking you to. However, this thread (and, to a much greater extent, the previous one) are chock full of people who throw screaming tantrums at the fact that I'm not Orthodox. This thread contains at least two people who claim that the sole reason I celebrate holidays is to mock them, so I think I'm probably the last person here who needs that advice. If you want to bring a ham hock to a Seder, knock yourself out. Just don't bring it to mine. OK, just to spell it out— I brought a ham hock to a Seder attended by six secular/Reform Jews. None of us keep kosher. None of us keep Passover. Everyone else knew that ham would be served; in fact, I was explicitly asked to bring it. The problem is that OTChat is full of Orthodox fundamentalists who believe that they get to tell everyone on the planet what to do, and the idea that I and my friends were celebrating the holidays in a way they personally didn't approve of drove them to a screaming frothing meltdown. Of course, saying: "You celebrated Passover without complying with all of my obsessive dictates!" would just make them look like the immature crybabies that they are. So a few of them desperately tried to beat up a straw man by claiming they actually objected to the idea of showing up uninvited to a Seder hosted by Orthodox strangers with ham in hand. |
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