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ChavaK
2nd January 2008, 07:39 PM
What is the strangest/weirdest/funniest question
someone has asked you about your beliefs?

For me, the funniest is when someone asked
me if Chanukah is the day Jews celebrate
the birth of Jesus.

For strange, it's people wanting to know how
we sacrifice animals.....
christinepro
2nd January 2008, 08:17 PM
The strangest funniest question I was asked "Is it the Canadian Christmas in Canada this weekend?" when it was Canadian Thanksgiving (Christopher Columbus Day). I live in a border city and an American asked me this.
muffler dragon
2nd January 2008, 08:34 PM
Not humorous.

My father asked me if I still considered my marriage valid after leaving Christianity.
SingingElk
2nd January 2008, 08:37 PM
I had a lady in the store ask me "What's a Messianic? I never heard of it".
Colabomb
2nd January 2008, 08:44 PM
For strange, it's people wanting to know how
we sacrifice animals.....

Well that makes sense. I mean, you open up a bible.... and its right there lol.

In my youth I wondered the same thing. :blush:
ChavaK
2nd January 2008, 11:18 PM
I had a lady in the store ask me "What's a Messianic? I never heard of it".

So what did you tell her?
ChavaK
2nd January 2008, 11:19 PM
The strangest funniest question I was asked "Is it the Canadian Christmas in Canada this weekend?" when it was Canadian Thanksgiving (Christopher Columbus Day). I live in a border city and an American asked me this.

Well, at least they knew it was some kind of holiday!
So, maybe you can explain what Boxing Day is?
ChavaK
2nd January 2008, 11:20 PM
Not humorous.

My father asked me if I still considered my marriage valid after leaving Christianity.

That's just plain strange......:scratch:
christinepro
2nd January 2008, 11:45 PM
Well, at least they knew it was some kind of holiday!
So, maybe you can explain what Boxing Day is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day
Ivy
3rd January 2008, 01:38 AM
Not humorous.

My father asked me if I still considered my marriage valid after leaving Christianity.

Ow. :(
Ivy
3rd January 2008, 01:40 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing_Day

lol.......and here all this time I thought it had to do with boxing gloves, two guys fighting in a ring :D

I want a box. A big gifty one. :D :cool:
Ivy
3rd January 2008, 01:42 AM
I did have someone ask me once, "Why do the Jews wear 'Hanukkahs' on their heads?" Boy now that would be some BRIGHT headgear! :D :D

Guess he got it mixed up with "yarmulke".
muffler dragon
3rd January 2008, 02:56 AM
That's just plain strange......:scratch:

Ow. :(


Yep on both accounts. My folks are odd like that.
YahshuaWitness
3rd January 2008, 04:28 AM
When I used to believe we didnt need to observe the sabbath. I thought well YAHSHUA is the sabbath. They asked me " Since when is YAHSHUA a day'?
christinepro
3rd January 2008, 09:31 AM
lol.......and here all this time I thought it had to do with boxing gloves, two guys fighting in a ring :D

I want a box. A big gifty one. :D :cool: I thought it was the fighting kind of boxing when I was a kid. I had to find out what it was in the Encyclopedia.
christinepro
3rd January 2008, 09:32 AM
I did have someone ask me once, "Why do the Jews wear 'Hanukkahs' on their heads?" Boy now that would be some BRIGHT headgear! :D :D

Guess he got it mixed up with "yarmulke".
Priceless!
visionary
3rd January 2008, 10:13 AM
When I used to believe we didnt need to observe the sabbath. I thought well YAHSHUA is the sabbath. They asked me " Since when is YAHSHUA a day'?It is the date with the one you love... Yeshua.

Are you not going to decorate the tree, after all, I went and got it? Answer,.. No dear, you wanted the tree, you decorate the tree. I cook.
christinepro
3rd January 2008, 10:51 AM
It is the date with the one you love... Yeshua.

Are you not going to decorate the tree, after all, I went and got it? Answer,.. No dear, you wanted the tree, you decorate the tree. I cook. The Tree of life?
visionary
3rd January 2008, 11:14 AM
The Tree of life? Christmas
ContraMundum
3rd January 2008, 12:32 PM
"Did you keep the lights off on Sabbath so no one could see you counting your money?"- a kid asked me when I was a kid.

"Would you have to give up the priesthood to play cricket or could you just try playing it in your cassock?" - a kid to me two weeks ago.

"Is Christian the same as Bhuddist?"

"You're Jewish and Christian? Wow, is it true Jesus was a Jewish Christian too?"
christianmomof3
3rd January 2008, 12:49 PM
I don't know if this is fits into this category - it is a comment rather than a question, but it always seemed strange to me. Throughout my life, often times when I have told people that I am Jewish, people tell me that they have never met anyone Jewish before. To me, that is a bit bizarre. I personally know lots and lots of Jewish people :D .
I imagine that they may have met Jewish people but just not known that they were Jewish.
I don't know.
But often times I meet people who tell me they have never met anyone Jewish before and they know nothing about the Jewish religion other than they don't believe in Christ.
ChavaK
3rd January 2008, 12:49 PM
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ChavaK
4th January 2008, 02:50 AM
I thought it was the fighting kind of boxing when I was a kid. I had to find out what it was in the Encyclopedia.

I'm almost embarrassed to admit this.....but I thought Boxing Day
was the day all the Christmas decorations were boxed up and
put away until the next year!! duh....
ChavaK
4th January 2008, 02:52 AM
"Did you keep the lights off on Sabbath so no one could see you counting your money?"

A related question to that was someone asking me if Jews used
electricity or not. Apparently he had heard we don't turn lights
off and on during shabbas, and assumed we did not use
electricity at all. I think he got us confused with the Amish....
Ivy
4th January 2008, 11:27 AM
"Did you keep the lights off on Sabbath so no one could see you counting your money?"- a kid asked me when I was a kid.

"Would you have to give up the priesthood to play cricket or could you just try playing it in your cassock?" - a kid to me two weeks ago.

"Is Christian the same as Bhuddist?"

"You're Jewish and Christian? Wow, is it true Jesus was a Jewish Christian too?"

LOL! :D :D Whew. (Ivy wipes eyes.) Thank you Contra. I think that first one is my favorite.

As an offspring of the clergy, I can attest that they don't wear their clerical robes all the time. :D
Tea
4th January 2008, 07:52 PM
When a friend found out that we kept the Sabbath and feasts, "you obviously worship another Jesus".
sigh
ContraMundum
5th January 2008, 12:22 AM
When a friend found out that we kept the Sabbath and feasts, "you obviously worship another Jesus".
sigh

I could understand a Christian saying that if you told them you didn't believe in the Divinity of Jesus- but still that would be a pretty silly thing to say! :)
Tea
5th January 2008, 08:31 PM
I could understand a Christian saying that if you told them you didn't believe in the Divinity of Jesus- but still that would be a pretty silly thing to say! :)

Contra, I wanted to PM you with this question, but I can't find out how to. Yes I know, I don't understand computers for the life of me.

Ok question, is this reply because I sport the Menorah icon? This is a question not an accusation.

Just wondering.
Tracey