Christians: Send Your Jewish Friends "Thank You for Christmas" Greeting Cards

I would like to give birth to a new holiday tradition. Forget the happy Hanukkah cards. How about a thank you note?

Who killed Jesus is a topic of much debate: was it the Jews, the Romans, a combination, Jesus' own father, a plot requirement? Yet the question of who gave birth to baby Jesus is answered without equivocation: Mary. Yes, she did so with the help of God, but it was Mary who schlepped from inn to inn before settling on a perfectly acceptable no-frills manger (a real find.) And it was her zaftig, child-bearing hips which really delivered the goods. I happen to like Jesus, who was a real mensch, and wish that the Church followed his teachings more closely. And I'm not trying to take all the Jewish credit for Christ's birth.  I just think that since we have, throughout history, been blamed for his death, we deserve, at the very least, a little credit for his birth. So here are some sample cards I would like to see. Nothing fancy, don't go crazy. Just something like "Thanks so much for the best Christmas present ever! Jesus Christ." Or "We were thrilled with a lord. But a lord AND savior! You really outdid yourself." So Christians, send a thank you note to every Tom, Dick and Harry--or Tov, Dov, and Heschie--you know.

 

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Comments

[Giblatsai]

This is a beautiful idea, and one which isn't actually based in 'comic relief' necessarily, though there is ample room for release of guilt through forgiveness over the last 2,000 years of misery, chaos and death as a result of the Jews being blamed for Jesus' crucifiction (sic) and 'death'. Because Jesus' whole purpose for coming was to prove death was not real, and it is in his resurrection that the movement of Christianity began, and not his death, the blame is totally unfounded anyway. Had it ended with his death on the cross....his time here would have been but a footnote in the history of Judaism. But because he was resurrected and showed himself in multiple instances, the first of which was to another Mary (Magdelene) at the tomb, the Jesus followers eventually came to be called Christians, after Paul's preaching in Antioch, Turkey converted a great number of Jews there. The Jewish people gave us Jesus, and the whole idea of a Messiah or Saviour, indeed they gave us Christianity itself, and its' greatest gift, Jesus' only commandment: 'Love one another, as I have loved you, that your joy may be full.' (John 15:12 ) Christmas is an expression of this single commandment we all need to live by to be happy here in the world.

[dctackett]

hahaha... I like that...

though, it should be thank you for Jesus or Christianity, not Christmas...