{"id":106,"date":"2011-04-12T13:22:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noahideworldcenter.org\/ask\/2011\/04\/12\/joining-christian-ceremonies\/"},"modified":"2011-04-12T13:22:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T13:22:21","slug":"joining-christian-ceremonies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/joining-christian-ceremonies\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining Christian ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q: <\/strong>Can a Noahide participate in church or other Christian ceremonies such as a wedding or a traditional holiday gathering?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Q: <\/strong>How should a Noahide behave when he is invited for a wedding ceremony in church? Should he stay outside? Being present in a church during a mass leads to the impression that&nbsp;a person is in some way worshipping Jesus. But on the other hand it is not good to make the bride and groom unhappy. <strong>A: Staying in a church is forbidden to a Jew but not forbidden to a Noahide, especially if it causes sorrow to any person.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong>Q: <\/strong>And how does should a Noahide behave at a work place or at school during traditional meetings before Christmas or Easter? At such meetings usually there is a priest and some prayers. Of course attendance isn\u2019t obligatory but managers (bosses) usually aren\u2019t pleased when an employee isn\u2019t integrating with others. <strong>A: You are allowed to stay there if you don&#8217;t do any act of worshipping. Why not<\/strong><strong> propose a Noahide alternative?<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/strong> <strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong>Q:<\/strong> What about family meetings during Christmas and Easter? Can a Noahide eat food that was blessed in church and have Catholic symbolism? Again it<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>leads to the impression that a person is in some way worshipping Jesus but on the other way it is no good to sadden parents,&nbsp;to make them angry etc. <strong>A: If eating this food is a part of a religious behavior, you cannot eat it.<\/strong><strong> You must find a way of making your family happy, for example by proposing your help in preparing the food etc.<\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: Can a Noahide participate in church or other Christian ceremonies such as a wedding or a traditional holiday gathering?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3023],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customs-and-practices"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brit-olam.com\/ask\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}