{"id":3223,"date":"2008-03-11T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2008\/03\/the-bar-mitzvah-boy-who-is-a-jerk.html"},"modified":"2008-03-11T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T07:18:00","slug":"the-bar-mitzvah-boy-who-is-a-jerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2008\/03\/the-bar-mitzvah-boy-who-is-a-jerk.html","title":{"rendered":"The Bar Mitzvah boy who is a jerk"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we prepare for Holy Week, our Jewish brothers and sisters are preparing for Passover. And that led me to this peculiar video (h\/t Rod Dreher<\/a>) which is — as Rod put it — “jerky.” <\/p>\n

I agree with him. Why on earth would a kid use a religious celebration to declare publicly that he doesn’t believe in God? <\/p>\n

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