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[chezmax]

I'm in the shinjuku area of tokyo, eating at a place called Christon Café, which is a trendy, yet fairly cheap christian-themed restaurant. The menu says it's "The most premier restaurant in 100 years. Restaurant with the image of a church."

Totally weird. So there's chandaliers and mary's and giant fake-candles, and they claim to have furniture and an altar from actual european churches. Despite all that, it's like they'd never been to a real church. It's weird being somewhere where something christian is trendy.

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[mlik.livejournal.com]

WWJE?

(Where would Jesus eat?)

[chezmax]

A not-quite-right but still tasty ceaser salad, grilled salmon in a mushroom cream sauce, and a cappucino gelato for dessert. And Coke to drink.

[taffer.livejournal.com]

Jesus wouldn't eat that, IIRC... Ceasar salad dressing isn't kosher, is it?

[chezmax]

Umm... is kosherness a strong motivator for Jesus? You know, since kosher is a Jewish concept, and Jesus... er.. is not? :)

[taffer.livejournal.com]

That's not what I heard!

Most scholars in the fields of history and biblical studies agree that Jesus was a Galilean Jew, was regarded as a teacher and healer, was baptized by John the Baptist, and was crucified in Jerusalem on orders of the Roman Governor Pontius Pilate under the accusation of sedition against the Roman Empire.

No idea if his family was kosher though. As a non-Jew, non-Muslim, non-Catholic, this whole dietary restriction thing is foreign to me.