How the Jew stole Christmas

Many Jewish kids I heard from were permitted to watch the Grinch every year, yet somehow nobody (including my parents) is able to explain why this is so. Nearly everyone who wrote to me explained that the Boris Karloff version of the Grinch was "a classic."

What surfaces is a universal (and discomfiting) sense that the Grinch is a fundamentally Jewish show because the Grinch himself is a fundamentally Jewish character. I got one e-mail that concluded, "Who is more of a Grinch than a grumpy old Jew?" And a Jew with a heart problem no less?

But why do Jewish parents want to be pushing this peculiarly self-loathing vision of the bitter old Jewish man on their kids? Do we drag our kids to see The Merchant of Venice? If anything, the Grinch-as-old-Jew notion... is the ultimate fantasy for a Jewish kid with a case of Santa/tree/carols envy―Christmas, canceled."

Belief in the supernatural, that's Christianity and Judaism. Bddhism doesn't teach the existence of the supernatural including God and Yhwh at all. What you think are the supernatural in Buddhism is just part of the rhetoric to be used to lead "beginners" to the road for the real enlightenment. It doesn't matter at all whether the supernatural, including God and Yhwh, do exist or not. The core of the Buddhist idea is nothing to do with the question. You see a number of supernatural existences, which may look weird to you in the first place, in Buddhism because it first spread in ancient India, where most people believed in what appear in Brahmanism. Buddhism would more often than not have mentioned God, Yhwh, Jesus, Angels and the like, or gods and spirits that appear in European paganisms, if Buddism had reached into Europe before the modern era. Those who are well educated are taught the body of Buddhist theory in a different way, often without mentioning the supernatural at all. For example, see zen Buddhist denominations.