You don't eat unleavened bread (here, matzoh) at Chanukah, Jon. That's Passover, which is a far, far more important holiday in the Jewish calendar, and which, for convenience of your tiny memory, falls vaguely in the area of Easter, not Christmas. (Easter is also more important in the liturgical calendar than Christmas, but we'll let that be. I mean, why should Sweet know his own religion either?)
Also, John Paul was indeed a beloved Pope, but died after thirty-three days in office, during which he was severely theologically conservative about gay couples, birth control, and abortion, and only cautiously okay with in vitro fertilization (Louise Brown, the first so-called "test tube baby," was born during his reign in 1978). Pope John Paul II was loved by my grandparents and great-aunts, but not for being particularly "forgiving," merely for being Polish. Indeed, John Paul II condemned liberation theology; asserted that the desire of same-sex couples to adopt was "evil"; pushed strongly, but without success, for a mention in the EU Constitution of Europe's Christian roots; and, although he favored the abolition of the death penalty, was no more generally "forgiving" than John Paul I had been.
Religious studies, Sweet Bro style! I also love the image of Jews going to Mecca, only to be, at best, thrown out.
