There is some vitriol and misrepresentation going on there. I apologize for injecting my opinion, because you obviously just want to vent.
To clarify I actually suggested you completely ignore their requests to bow your head or hold hands and grab a turkey leg instead, for the simple fact they obviously weren't addressing you specifically but the room generally.
As a side note, I've had meals in a shared synagogue with a Messianic group. As long as we didn't prepare the ham in the kitchen, they were fine with that. They even came and ate with us. The only thing we did different is label things with pork, they didn't partake of any and everyone wins. I would never offer a person I knew was Jewish a ham sandwich. If I'm offering ham sandwiches to a group though, I don't expect the Jewish person to burn me as a heretic right on the spot.
I'll bow out now, enjoy your turkey day.
To clarify I actually suggested you completely ignore their requests to bow your head or hold hands and grab a turkey leg instead, for the simple fact they obviously weren't addressing you specifically but the room generally.
As a side note, I've had meals in a shared synagogue with a Messianic group. As long as we didn't prepare the ham in the kitchen, they were fine with that. They even came and ate with us. The only thing we did different is label things with pork, they didn't partake of any and everyone wins. I would never offer a person I knew was Jewish a ham sandwich. If I'm offering ham sandwiches to a group though, I don't expect the Jewish person to burn me as a heretic right on the spot.
I'll bow out now, enjoy your turkey day.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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