Why do Christians wear kippahs for certain events?

[Airyaman]

I don't understand Christians (or any other non-Jewish person) wearing kippahs when attending certain events. Do Jewish people wear cross necklaces when at a Christian event? Do Muslims?

It's weird how Christianity basically says all other religions, including Judaism, are wrong yet some Christians show a certain level of respect to Judaism and/or Israel simply because of the holy symbolism.

Thoughts?

 

[Stealers Wheel]

One's behavior and attire is determined by your host in polite society.

 

[Rumpelstil]

One's behavior and attire is determined by your host in polite society.

right!

when I was as a guest in a synagogue, I was also wearing a kippah

 

[Citizen]

I don't understand Christians (or any other non-Jewish person) wearing kippahs when attending certain events. Do Jewish people wear cross necklaces when at a Christian event? Do Muslims?

It's weird how Christianity basically says all other religions, including Judaism, are wrong yet some Christians show a certain level of respect to Judaism and/or Israel simply because of the holy symbolism.

Thoughts?

It’s all political. That is why I hate religion

 

[ataraxia]

I went to an Indian wedding once and wore traditional Indian dress, borrowed to me by a friend. It’s just expressing a sense of solidarity.

 

[Maccabee]

I don't understand Christians (or any other non-Jewish person) wearing kippahs when attending certain events. Do Jewish people wear cross necklaces when at a Christian event? Do Muslims?

It's weird how Christianity basically says all other religions, including Judaism, are wrong yet some Christians show a certain level of respect to Judaism and/or Israel simply because of the holy symbolism.

Thoughts?

It's custom. I'm sure if you, as a non Catholic, attend a Catholic service on Ash Wednesday, you'd wear the ash across your forehead.

 

[Rumpelstil]

It's custom. I'm sure if you, as a non Catholic, attend a Catholic service on Ash Wednesday, you'd wear the ash across your forehead.

surely

 

[Airyaman]

It's custom. I'm sure if you, as a non Catholic, attend a Catholic service on Ash Wednesday, you'd wear the ash across your forehead.

But I'd not attend...

 

[NewfieMom]

I don't understand Christians (or any other non-Jewish person) wearing kippahs when attending certain events. Do Jewish people wear cross necklaces when at a Christian event? Do Muslims?

It's weird how Christianity basically says all other religions, including Judaism, are wrong yet some Christians show a certain level of respect to Judaism and/or Israel simply because of the holy symbolism.

Thoughts?

When I was young, most of my friends were Roman Catholic and females their covered their heads in church. I always did that when I visited a Roman Catholic church with a friend. It was easy to carry a lace mantilla, even as a teenager.

 

[NewfieMom]

BTW,-I wouldn't wear my shoes into a mosque.

 

[Maccabee]

But I'd not attend...

Then you don't have to worry about wearing ash on your forehead.

 

[NewfieMom]

No one in a Catholic church forces a guest to participate in the rites: to genuflect; to cross himself; to kneel when others do; and so forth. It is ludicrous to think a guest would be asked (or even invited) to partake of a ritual on Ash Wednesday. No one ever forced me to cover my head in a Catholic church and I have never seen a non-Jewish man forced to wear a yarmulke in a synagogue.

The nice thing about the United States, though, is that one need not have a religion. One is not forced to practice any rituals at all. It is all choice. Thank the Founding Fathers, who fled persecution in their search to practice their religions freely.

 

[ModernDiogenes]

I am a Christian with many Jewish friends and out of respect I wear a kippah/yamaka when attending Synagogue as an invited guest.