Posted on 04/14/2016 1:04:43 PM PDT by Nachum
JTA — If Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s visit to Hasidic Brooklyn this week had yielded only one amusing moment, Dayenu – it would have been enough.
But, thank God, there were many in the Republican presidential candidate’s visit to a Jewish bookstore, shmura matzah bakery and Hasidic school in Borough Park on Tuesday.
“It’s a wonderful, wonderful holiday for our friends in the Jewish community – the Passover,” Kasich told reporters after emerging from the matzah bakery, a box of the fresh-baked stuff in hand.
Yes, Jews are known to love The Passover, almost as much they love The Pre-Election Drop-By from vote-seeking politicians.
Flanked by Hasidic publicist Ezra Friedlander, Kasich then launched into a brief appraisal of the links between Passover and, um, the blood of Jesus Christ.
“The great link between the blood that was put above the lampposts” – er, you mean doorposts, governor — “the blood of the lamb, because Jesus Christ is known as the lamb of God. It’s his blood, we believe …”
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I’ve gotten that vibe in watching Kasich, too. I think he’s a good man, means well, likeable. I don’t agree with some of his positions, but he’s competent. And boring in debates.
Frankly, I love his knowledge of scripture and willingness to speak intelligently about it.
If Donald Trump has botched something like that up that bad, the media would go into instant feeding frenzy.
I think he made the same kind of mistake that you just did above when you wrote "lamp stand".
If you read the article, he said "lamp post". He's wrong, of course, but I think it was just one of those slips that happens in life.
FWIW, it's easy to check throughout FR and discover that I'm a Trump supporter. I'm also a retired Army chaplain and a Christian minister. I'm not going to say that Trump made an awful slip-up uniting Christ and the Passover when it is directly said by the Apostle Paul, and is alluded to throughout the entire New Testament. My point is simply that Kasich is not wrong on his Christianity.
He might have picked a bad setting.
Was that in Corinthians, The Sequel?
I agree. His off the cuff comment about Joseph’s most important words are telling. He is not a newcomer to the bible.
One Sunday our preacher gave a sermon on Old Testament precursors pointing to Jesus. It really was surprising how many there are.
One which stuck in my mind was Jonah and his 3 days in the fish.
I regularly make mental mistakes when I am just talking. Sometime I catch it but often I don’t. I can recall someone telling me and my thinking to myself. Did I really say that?
It is something most people do.
Of course speaking to a group who are still looking forward to their Messiah, it may have been the wrong place.
Are they sure this wasn’t Joe Biden. It sounds like something he would say
Did he ask for a “schtikle” of marble rye?
...plus Kasich, plus Cruz, plus fake Jew Bernie Sanders, plus the Hildebeast...
Third Kasich thread today on his educational outreach.
Aw be a sport ;)
There are some extremely clever comments on this thread :)
True.
They don’t have it all wrong, they just don’t understand what they are doing, that the need for sacrifices are over.
Especially when they’re down to seeds and stems again.
ftD, I don’t have any problem with folks giving Kasich grief over the wisdom of bringing the subject up in a Jewish setting WHILE campaigning for a political office. I’m ok with that.
I only have an issue if someone thinks he has the Christian doctrine and application and parallel wrong. He does not.
Once they have eliminated Donald Trump, the media won’t be giving John Kasich anymore “passovers”.
“It’s religion - who cares. Only those yahoos in flyover country believe all that nutty stuff, anyway.” — The Voice of DC.
Awesome truth.
I think he was trying to illustrate the parallels & jumbled it up.
I guess eating a knish at Katz’s wasn’t as good a photo-op.
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