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Of Passover and social justice.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Passover commenced last night. Human rights and social justice are the most important message to me with Passover.  A close relative yesterday emailed a Passover greeting to family members. I replied as follows:  Because I will not be with any of you to do so live at the seder table, here?s the rabble I would have roused at the seder: Passover, of course, is a bittersweet holiday, not only because it juxtaposes slavery with release from slavery, but also because it continues to portray a god with a hairtrigger finger, although I do not believe in the torah as non-fiction. After unnecessarily killing millions of people in the flood, god then proceeded to kill innocent Egyptian children as one of the plagues, thus giving the morbid name of the holiday of passing over Jewish homes to kill the non-Jewish children...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 09, 2009 (boomark / email).