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The early Church, in its wisdom, evolved many of the pagan festivals and holidays existing during that time and turned them into Christian celebrations instead. This was because it was more difficult to kill existing traditions and begin new ones than it was to just change the meaning of the existing traditions.

Meanwhile, Biblical holidays (Pesach, Purim, Ro'sh HaShanah, etc.) were abolished outright and their practice proscribed as heretical "Judaizing." Jewish holidays deny Chr*st, but pagan ones are the means of "appropriating salvation."

This is another area of traditional anti-Judaism that liberal Jewish anti-Catholics, with their hang-up on persecution and blind spot for theological liberalism, never seem to bring up.

19 posted on 02/23/2009 10:17:46 AM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Venatatta 'el-ha'aron 'et ha`edut 'asher 'etten 'eleykha.)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

...another area of traditional anti-Judaism....

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Well, I apologize for the sins of my forefathers, but that was then, and this is now.

Our Eastertide gives the nod to your Passover, BTW, and some RC liturgies introduce elements of Passover traditions.

I was never, in my 12 years of Catholic education, beginning in the 1950s, taught anything but respect for Judaism, both in school and in my parents’ home.


30 posted on 02/25/2009 9:17:26 AM PST by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012!)
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...another area of traditional anti-Judaism....

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Well, I apologize for the sins of my forefathers, but that was then, and this is now.

Our Eastertide gives the nod to your Passover, BTW, and some RC liturgies introduce elements of Passover traditions.

I was never, in my 12 years of Catholic education, beginning in the 1950s, taught anything but respect for Judaism, both in school and in my parents’ home.


31 posted on 02/25/2009 9:32:10 AM PST by Bigg Red (Palin in 2012!)
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