{"id":7674,"date":"2009-04-10T11:00:37","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T16:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/?p=7674"},"modified":"2009-04-10T00:10:05","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T05:10:05","slug":"asking-the-right-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2009\/04\/asking-the-right-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Asking the Right Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The news yesterday was that <a title=\"Obama Passover Seder\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/08\/obama-passover-seder-bein_n_184640.html\" target=\"_self\">President Obama will hold a Passover Seder<\/a> in the White House tonight, the first time a Seder has been held in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>So, who is going to ask him to hold Family Home Evening some Monday night?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, the number of Mormons and Jews in the United States are comparable. If a Jewish custom, especially one that covers events recognized as important by most religious people in the country, can be adopted by the President, why not a Mormon custom, especially one meant to strengthen an institution that is almost universally considered important?<\/p>\n<p>I am being a little facetious, I admit. But I think its worth pointing out\u2026 and suggesting to myself (and anyone else willing to listen), that we could be a little more forthright about who and what we are.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there is another issue here also&#8211;when does it make sense to adopt another group&#8217;s cultural artifacts?\u00a0 There are Mormons who have adopted Passover (Julie even <a title=\"Celebrating Passover\" href=\"http:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/2006\/03\/book-review-celebrating-passover-a-guide-to-understanding-the-jewish-feast-for-latter-day-saints\/\" target=\"_self\">reviewed<\/a> a book on the subject here a couple of years ago), as have many Christians.<\/p>\n<p>As I said above there isn&#8217;t anything that I know of that would make Passover incompatible, but if we take over Jewish customs, do we remove something that makes Jews unique?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news yesterday was that President Obama will hold a Passover Seder in the White House tonight, the first time a Seder has been held in the White House. So, who is going to ask him to hold Family Home Evening some Monday night?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,10,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comparative-religion","category-missionary","category-news-politics"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7681,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7674\/revisions\/7681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesandseasons.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}