On friday, two cow-orkers were having a conversation about Passaover and one needed an explanation about the last plague. Well cow-orker #2 informs her that the Jews put the blood of Jesus represented by a lamb on their doorposts. This way the Angel of Death knows to skip their house. Now as a Jew I never learned this version so I decided to correct him. It was just a lamb sacrificed for God. Animal sacrifices were common at that time. But he was adamant that his version was correct. I even countered with the fact that Jesus wasn’t even alive during the time of Moses! Does he keep popping up throughout biblical history to get smited by the Jews? Was Jesus the unicorn Noah never took aboard the ark? Was he the sheep that Abraham sacrficed instead of Isaac? I can just imagine him taking the shape of a ram and saying “Gotcha,” smiling with two forefingers in the shape of hoofs pointing at the first Jew.
So on this Easter Sunday, everyone is welcome to post about the misinformed or offensive comments you have been told that pertain to your culture or religion. These people have been told the wrong thing for so long during their life that they will probably remain ignorant forever, so let us at least share the stories and amuse ourselves.
In a pit thread about a Jack Chick tract, I pointed out that Jack Chick had a scene in which Jesus told Moses to do something or other. It seemed to me that was a glaring error, as Jesus hadn’t been born yet, but the other posters in the thread said that Jesus was interchangeable with God so it didn’t matter, and there was no error.
OK, to a lot of Trinitarian C’tians, everytime God appears or speaks to someone in the OT, it’s really The Logos/The Son, not the Father, at work. Now, one may agree or disagree with this, and even Trinitarian C’tians do differ on it, but it does have an internal consistency.
But this deal about the Jews applying the Blood of JC at Passover is just goofy, esp if the C’tian defended the view when challenged. We C’tians certainly see the blood of the Paschal Lamb as prophetically symbolizing JC’s sacrifice, and I could see a C’tian mispeaking when talking about Passover, but … whew!
Now, my story about goofy misconceptions- I was an older teen witnessing to a group of younger dope-head teens. They wanted to know about Jesus’s “quilt” (which I correctly figured was the Shroud) and a movie they saw about a “Cow from Hell”-
I never figured that out till watching the Golden Calf scene in THE TEN COMMANDMENTS a year later, so I thought they might be talking about the Locusts from the Pit in Revelation 9 and discussed that.
So, Jesus’s Quilt and Cows from Hell! Biblical images from druggy teens!
The first, and so-far only, Chick Tract I’d read was one of his going on and on about the evils of D&D.
The thing that got me about this was that in the tract the DM was an actual witch. And what bothered me most (And for me, any religious message in the tract was lost completely in this more disturbing revelation.) was that the tract was serious purporting that this witch could actually control minds of people around her with spells. Mind you, I’m not talking programming or anything that she might be doing to her coterie - she was able to use her magic to make one of her drone’s parents do things. Ergo Jack Chick believes in magic.
And this guy is being used to preach to the heathen?
Your coworker had probably been to a Christian seder at church. They perform and explain the rituals of a seder in terms of Christian beliefs, and the pastor probably said that the lamb’s blood was prophetically looking forward to Jesus’s blood sacrifice, and that’s probably what she was trying to express. I’m guessing that she missed the point of the seder being a Jewish ritual, and therefore not, for the people who practice it, about Jesus in any way. It’s possible her pastor forgot to emphasize that point.
I’ve been to one or two, then I finally figured out how Jewish people would feel about their religious rituals being coopted by people from a different religion. I thought about how I’d feel about my local mosque doing demonstrative communion and explaining how the ritual really look forward to the real prophet, Muhammad… and I don’t think I’d like that very much.
In the spirit of the OP, I leave you with a thought from most of my family, this Christmas, when I got into a bit of an argument. It turns out that there are groups of Satanists committing such crimes as burning churches, killing animals, ritual abuse of very small children, and occasional murders. They do these things on a regular basis, but are rarely caught because of their powerful connections.
The Jews didn’t kill Jesus. The Romans did. I personally am not familiair with Chick Tracts but I have heard of them. Some people think those are short cuts to fufulling the Great Commission. They aren’t.
I am a little under the weather today. I will read the rest of the thread later.
The things that are said about what I think are that I and those like me are responsible for all of the crime, degradation, and everything else that is wrong with the US.
It would help if i could stop feeling like I am ready to throw up.
I have to agree though that what your coworker said may have sounded a little…odd. But FisherQueen is right. When most Christians look at the OT, they are seeing through the “eyes” of the NT.
So offensive things said about my religion. Oh God, too many to count. People are misinformed as Ludicrious put in his OP but people seem to like being misinformed which is also shown in the OP. Let em be as far as I’m concerned. Now, if someone asks a legitimate question in sincerity, then talk.
A couple of my favorite misinformations: End times stuff AND the 3 Wise Men (Bible doesn’t say that) and that someone how they made a very long walk in one evening.
By the way, where do you work that talking religion would be appropriate? Anyway, if you can, could you ask them how they think the world is going to end and them post it. I have a feeling that they are Tim LaHaye followers.
It wasn’t until I was out of college that I heard that Jews had horns. A jewish friend told me how she was asked in high school if the reason she wore a hat was to cover the horns. I just plain did not believe her. I attended a high school that had a large enough percentage of jews that jewish holidays were virtual holidays for the entire school. There just wasn’t enough students (or teachers) for regular classes. And yet, it wasn’t until I moved to the south that this little nugget of info was revealed unto me. The final confirmation (that there was such a story, not that it was true) was when my folks came back from Italy and they told me about the horns on Michaelangelos statue of Joseph. The tour guide tried to pass them off as “Rays of light” emanating from Joes noggin. But no way. I’ve since seen a picture and those are horns, man.
I have an aunt who is pretty whacky. Once, when my mom was visiting, they were talking in the kitchen and from out of nowhere my aunt says, “Adam and Eve spoke English, you know.”
At least you know know she’s wacky. My mother was in a bible study a few years back when one of the men in the group was complaining with using a more modern translation than the King James-a-like the Church had used earlier. Since, of course, altering the Word of God was sacrelige. :rolleyes:
Yeah, second that, the Gospels makes it plenty clear that it was as he intended, and he did try to clue the disciples in on many occasions.
His actions in the days running directly up to his crucifixtion also make it pretty clear he knew the big day was coming up and he was preparing for it.
I would say that the biggest misrepresentation of my religion that I run into, is that many people assume that various ultra-conservative psychopaths (such as the guy picketing military funerals or television evangalists who proclaim God is sending hurricanes to punish gays, etc) speak for the Christian mainstream as a whole.
The problem is those guys have big mouths and larger megaphones, and we regular believers are probably too quiet in our responsibilty to point out they don’t speak for the rest of us.
