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edhopper

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2. That is fine

Wed Apr 17, 2024, 11:34 AM

Apr 2024

to take it that way. But I have been to too many seders and spent too much time in Hebrew school to believe most Jews just take it as allegory for a larger issue of slavery. Especially since slavery is condoned in the Bible over and over again and never condemned.
The amount of times God is praised suggests it is as I have described.

Therefore, we are obliged to thank, praise, laud, glorify, exalt, magnify, adore, and give eternal honor to the One who did all these miracles for us and for our ancestors. He took us out from slavery to freedom, from servitude to redemption, from sorrow to joy, from mourning to festivity, and from deep darkness to great light. [Therefore,] let us recite before Him: Halleluyah!

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(Religion Group) The Case of the Exodus that didn't happen [View all] edhopper Apr 2024 OP

It's a celebration of freedom and a recognition of the evils of slavery unblock Apr 2024 #1

That is fine edhopper Apr 2024 #2

Thanking god for delivering us from slavery is not the same as just god loves us generally unblock Apr 2024 #3

I hear you edhopper Apr 2024 #9

The wonderful celebration includes a genocide. Voltaire2 Apr 2024 #5

And it bad-mouths frogs. Really? a plague? Are frogs really that bad? unblock Apr 2024 #6

Slaughter of the first born. Voltaire2 Apr 2024 #7

Wow my pet frog is mightily insulted you just glossed right over that unblock Apr 2024 #8

I hear you about the frogs edhopper Apr 2024 #10

Especially because the God of free will edhopper Apr 2024 #11

As the Official Passover Curmudgeon Voltaire2 Apr 2024 #4