Pub Quiz Board of Appeals

I was at Fado playing their Monday night trivia game with the usual team, when down came the question, "what does the Jewish holiday of Passover commemorate?" Naturally enough, everyone turns to the Jew (EDIT: i.e., me, I realize that this post might be construed as offensive without that tidbit), who says it commemorates the slaying of the firstborn children of Egypt and the sparing of the Jews. Our people were told to mark our doors with lambs' blood so that when the Angel of Death came through he would know to pass over the Jewish households and spare their children. Hence, Passover. But no, the powers that be at Brainstormer declared that the correct answer was "liberation from Egypt" or something like that. I'm going to have to stick with my original answer. The Haggadah covers a lot of ground (blood, flies, unleavened bread, eating while reclining, bitter herbs, etc.), but they could have named the thing "Liberation Day" if that's what they'd meant to call it. I blame the delicate sensibilities of wussy Christians who aren't down with the whole "vain and jealous God" scene and just can't understand why a group of people would organize one of their major festivals around an act of genocidal mass murder. The problem, as Heather MacDonald has argued is that such carpers fail to understand that extreme measures are often necessary in defense of liberty. Admittedly, things got a bit out of hand at times, but we were welcomed as liberators in the desert on the other side of the Red Sea!