What a tedious post, man. I’m a secular Jew and I celebrate Hanukkah for the food, because latkes and donuts and lighting candles are awesome. What is wrong with you exactly? You don’t want to be a religious Jew, don’t be. Who is forcing you? You want to be Christian? Knock yourself out. But seriously, this level of getting worked up ove…
What a tedious post, man. I’m a secular Jew and I celebrate Hanukkah for the food, because latkes and donuts and lighting candles are awesome. What is wrong with you exactly? You don’t want to be a religious Jew, don’t be. Who is forcing you? You want to be Christian? Knock yourself out. But seriously, this level of getting worked up over a holiday most people, even non-Jews, enjoy is something to discuss with your therapist. This post is dumb.
"I celebrate a holiday I don't believe in because of food" is not the more reasonable perspective.
You're putting on the front of being cool, but you're clearly worked up yourself over this essay. Why does the proposition that people shouldn't celebrate holidays whose core values they don't hold upset you enough to resort to the lowest form of argumentation, ad hominem attacks?
By the way, last line of the essay literally says you can keep eating latkes, just don't do so in celebration of a holiday unless you actually believe in what it memorializes. Irrational and unprincipled individuals affect everyone, unfortunately.
Nearly nobody who celebrates Christmas actually believing in the story of the Trinity and immaculate conception or virgin birth. They do it for the warmth of a family gathering and gift giving. Hanukkah, similarly, isn’t actually celebrated with the Hasmonean war with the Syrian Greeks on anyone’s mind, nor do most Jews believe in the miracle of the oil tin. It’s done for the fun of being together as a family. It’s also a minor religious holiday, and there are no vacation days associated with it in Israel. It’s only an elevated holiday in the diaspora due to the winter break, and specifically due to Christmas. So, the author is frothing at the mouth with hostility to Judaism to a bizarre degree. The dude can pick and choose to be religious or not, but this article is weird, and reeks of his personal axe to grind. I guess that writing at length about how Jews were intolerant two thousand years ago makes him feel better, but the guy can use therapy instead. No kingdoms nor religions at the time were remarkably different nor less combative with their neighbors, especially while occupied. In short, he can give his anger toward Judaism a rest. Jews don’t take Hanukkah that seriously and neither should he.
What a tedious post, man. I’m a secular Jew and I celebrate Hanukkah for the food, because latkes and donuts and lighting candles are awesome. What is wrong with you exactly? You don’t want to be a religious Jew, don’t be. Who is forcing you? You want to be Christian? Knock yourself out. But seriously, this level of getting worked up over a holiday most people, even non-Jews, enjoy is something to discuss with your therapist. This post is dumb.
"I celebrate a holiday I don't believe in because of food" is not the more reasonable perspective.
You're putting on the front of being cool, but you're clearly worked up yourself over this essay. Why does the proposition that people shouldn't celebrate holidays whose core values they don't hold upset you enough to resort to the lowest form of argumentation, ad hominem attacks?
By the way, last line of the essay literally says you can keep eating latkes, just don't do so in celebration of a holiday unless you actually believe in what it memorializes. Irrational and unprincipled individuals affect everyone, unfortunately.
Nearly nobody who celebrates Christmas actually believing in the story of the Trinity and immaculate conception or virgin birth. They do it for the warmth of a family gathering and gift giving. Hanukkah, similarly, isn’t actually celebrated with the Hasmonean war with the Syrian Greeks on anyone’s mind, nor do most Jews believe in the miracle of the oil tin. It’s done for the fun of being together as a family. It’s also a minor religious holiday, and there are no vacation days associated with it in Israel. It’s only an elevated holiday in the diaspora due to the winter break, and specifically due to Christmas. So, the author is frothing at the mouth with hostility to Judaism to a bizarre degree. The dude can pick and choose to be religious or not, but this article is weird, and reeks of his personal axe to grind. I guess that writing at length about how Jews were intolerant two thousand years ago makes him feel better, but the guy can use therapy instead. No kingdoms nor religions at the time were remarkably different nor less combative with their neighbors, especially while occupied. In short, he can give his anger toward Judaism a rest. Jews don’t take Hanukkah that seriously and neither should he.