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You may find the title confusing. After all, religious Jews don’t celebrate Christmas. So why should a Jew care if a store clerk says “Merry Christmas?” Why should the public disappearance of Christmas matter to the Jewish people? Patience. All will be explained in due course. In the meantime, ‘tis the season to be politically correct – a coast-to-coast harkening-free zone and the tyranny of hyper-sensitivity. The increasingly successful effort to purge Christmas from our culture (correctly called the War on Christmas) proceeds apace – municipal Christmas trees are re-christened (no pun intended) “holiday trees,” schools ban Christmas decorations and...

Ask believing Christians -- probably from as young as 8 years of age -- what their mission as Christians is, and it is overwhelmingly likely they will answer, "to bring people to Christ" or "spread the Gospel." Ask any non-Christian what the Christian mission is, and you will get the same answer. Just about everyone, Christian or non-Christian, knows the Christian mission. Now ask any Jew, religious or secular, "What is the Jewish mission?" and the most likely response will be: "What do you mean?" Most religious Jews rarely talk about a Jewish mission. Rather, they are preoccupied with survival:...

To: onedoug The Gospels are profound, but a little more problematic for me in terms of Jesus as Messiah. How so? That would be a more interesting discussion... 21 posted on 03/24/2003 3:38 PM PST by Alex Murphy [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies | Report Abuse ] And so, since you evinced an interest in response, and I’d promised to keep it short, I thought to make this into its own thread in the hope we all might learn some more, as FreeRepublic has so often helped me to learn since I signed...