As a father of mixed-faith children, Jon Stewart has come to realize that the Christian holidays are winning over kids way more than the Jewish ones. Hanukkah may not be able to compete with the spectacle of Christmas, but Jon pleads a case for Passover over Easter in this Faith/Off. #DailyShow #JonStewart #Passover
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Then you learn Easter, Christmas, and Halloween were all pagan holidays and that Christian’s just stole all of them and butchered them into being childproof flavorless mush
Please do more old Jon Stewart contemplations. Two decades of content, you guys can be doing them much more.
The Elijah not showing up joke is comedy gold
I didn't grow up Jewish, but I appreciate the faith and want to convert. To me it seems Judaism focuses on the meaning of holidays and not just the frivolous fun parts. Of course Jon is right here! Kids don't know! And they can easily be bought with candy. Why else do we have to tell them not to take candy from strangers? They'll get themselves kidnapped for a candy bar! They might just convert for one too! Again, I did not grow up Jewish, but I think Judasim does an excellent job of bringing meaning to all holidays and gives us time to reflect on maybe all aspects of life that are sometimes lost to me growing up goy and generally Protestant. There is time every year to honor the memory of those lost to us, and to grieve. There is nothing shameful about it. We are meant to remember the loss and to celebrate their memory. I honestly think it is beautiful. I think the more we seek to understand, the more meaning we can find in Judaism. I don't understand everything, but it doesn't feel frivolous or meaningless to me. It never feels like a cash grab or pointless. I do think converts can have a different experience, because it is all new and nothing much is taken for granted. But with the holidays I grew up with, I don't think the focus was ever on spiritually or even helping other people. Holidays can be so much more than some capitistic realization. How many chocolate bunnies do you need to eat before you get tired of them? I might even go as far to say it is a disservice to children to give them candy when you could give them meanging, reverence, and appreciation instead. It doesn't have to be either or, but you know what their little sugar brains will be thinking about if the holiday is aligned with all that junk food. They can't help it.
Announce your candidacy Jon
Gefilte fish go hard
To be fair, all the fun parts about Easter (and every other Christian holiday) are actually pagan. Except Jesus Christ Superstar, I guess.
Great monolog. Why if we celebrate Easter, our Savior resurrection, knowing that He is Jewish, we celebrate having ham.
A friend invited me to a Passover Seder once in high school, and it was so interesting!
For me as a kid growing up the 90s by parents who were raised Christian but didn't raise us to be religious, Easter was just a fun holiday with zero religious connection. I'd say like Christmas, Easter now feels pretty secular, I mean you've got the pagan-influenced Easter bunny and Easter egg hunts and chocolate bunnies, there's nothing Christian about those things. So, like Christmas I'm sure Easter will be increasingly enjoyed by everyone 🙂
He didn't even get into hunting for colorful eggs outdoors in the park vs hunting for giant crackers in your own hallway…
Every year I laugh at how Christians use Pagan traditions to celebrate their highest holy days.
LOL
Well the movie Moses beats out Jesus of Nazareth. I remember watching that movie at like 7 or 8. You have to be much older to watch Jesus of Nazareth.
Just steal the fun stuff from an older religion like Christianity did 😂
Aren’t gifts given every day of Hanukkah? That sounds like a winner. IJS. One day of gifts vs eight days of gifts.
This is why we need the Holiday Armadillo!😂😂
Let's just party
Oh whatever though at least the adults get to have 4 glasses of wine at seder!! Chag sameach
The Abrahamics are more like each other than not.
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I still don’t understand what Easter has to do with candy and colored eggs?
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Oh, Jon being cute again.
Jon's comedic timing and delivery is second to none! 🤣🤣🤣
My cousin grew up in a mix faith family, though baptized as a catholic when he was 7 he wanted to be Jewish cause his friends were and they got present everyday for Hanukah.
So his mom enrolled him in temple for 2 years.
As an adult he has embraced other religions and is a well rounded individual.
Easter is Passover. It's the same thing. Jesus was the final Paschal Lamb.
You can make chocolate almond eggs. I'm creative I can make passover magic. 🙂
Years ago, a Jewish friend of mine invited me to a Passover meal given by the Chabad Lubavich in Pittsburgh. My friend was not Hasidic but the meal was open to any Jewish students or their guests. I thought it was a warm and enjoyable experience. The community bonding equivalent in Christianity is the sunrise service on Easter morning. Candy I can buy any time of the year.
As a Christian, over the past 40 years, I've attended many kinds of Passover Seders, and I've even done model Seders. My family almost always includes a little Passover in our Easter, with a Seder plate, to acknowledge the Jewish roots of our faith. The Christian Holy Communion is based upon the (flat)bread and wine of Passover.
The Easter basket may be more colorful and sweeter, but the Passover Seder plate is more meaningful. (I am not saying that Easter itself is less meaningful.) Though the Seder, we are eating the story as we go through the various foods on the plate and explain their meanings, retelling the story of the Exodus, a pivotal event in Judaism and a significant event to Christianity.
Some jews took that "You get the children, you win" line totally out of context recently. ❤ 🇵🇸
F'king Hilarious! 🤣😂
the best holidays of all are the ones with Pagan roots…they know how to have fun more than any monotheistic religion. occasional sacrifices aside….
One of Jon's best videos
Interestingly the Jewish seder plate Jon shows looks a little bit like the deckings for Nowruz, the Persian spring new year festival.
It also has an egg and some herbs. I think also a glass of water not sure.
Actually, the word Easter is found only once in the entire text. it was not there in the original text and recent scholars have been wise to remove it. It had been inserted is in an account of how when the apostle Peter had been jailed that an angel came to him and freed him from his shackles and led him out into the open air at which point Peter realized it was not a dream in the text, it says this happened about about the time of Passover was the year after the resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. There is no particular mention made of the birth death or resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth in this passage and its context it is all about the apostle Peter and how he ran into where the disciples were hiding, and a little girl named Rhoda heard him knocking, and they thought she was talking out of her head, and Peter told them to be silent and let him in. The only connection in the story was the time of year a year later after Jesus of Nazareth had risen. The word Easter is related to the pagan goddess Astarte. Also related to fertility or extras so therefore you have estrus and Easter.. however, the Easter egg is not entirely a modern myth. When Saint Mary Magdalene was challenged in her belief of the resurrection, the emperor handed her a regular white egg and told her if you can make this egg turn red then I will believe in this resurrection story. Mary or Miriam properly her name and Aramaic took the egg brought it to her heart prayed and returned it to the Emperor the egg having turned red. There is no connection between the egg that she held in the modern myth of Easter bunny and Easter eggs. Mary Magdalene later in her life, we became a hermit or a recluse and spent the rest of her life living alone in a cave where young women would come to her for blessings of successful childbirth. in addition and lastly, much of the richness of the culture of Judaism has been left out of modern church some call it paulinity or Christianity Jesus of Nazareth celebrated all of the Jewish holidays and much richness is to be gained by doing the same
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I've been searching for the original content. It was termed 'Easter vs Passover'
The thing that makes Easter so appealing, it is based on a pagan celebration of the Goddess Eostre. A duck flew too close to the sun and singed its feathers. The only way Eostre could save it was to turn it into a hare that must have retained the ability to lay eggs. It was celebrated at sunrise on the vernal equinox. It was about spring renewal and fecundity. It was way more fun than getting nailed to a cross. The different colored eggs represented spring flowers. The Greek Orthodox dye them red for blood of Christ. Let's go pagans!