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."

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You misunderstand not only Buddhism but also China. First, indeed Buddhism doesn't force you to work hard, it doesn't mean Buddhism is the religion of laziness, and you only superficially look at Buddhism to draw completely incorrect consequence with intention of the wrong and hollow belief - Christianity. Second, China's Buddhist culture became almost extinct long long ago, and what dominates the Han Chinese mind is Taoism, not Buddhism. Unlike Buddhism, Taoism is as simple and material as Christianity is.

The lethal problem of the Protestantism is that people completely rely on their personal understandings that things are all either good or evil. There is no dialectic in it. This way of thinking is so primitive that it often is harmful to human beings. Christianity itself is not necessarily wrong where as the way Americans toy with Christianity is dangerous.

Enlightenment itself is not difficult at all. To be determined to practise Buddhism is nothing but enlightenment. You find my argument is contradictory - yes contradictory indeed and superficially. When you're talking with me, you need to sublate what I say. Buddhism often use contradictory such as "it exists and it doesn't exist", where you must find the ultimate truth is. Looking back at the Christianity sects, they all stop at the primitive level of antinomy. This is rather dangerous.