Posted on 11/27/2004 1:43:00 PM PST by CHARLITE
Moral Absolutes Ping.
I love Don Feder. And he's a Jew. Why is an attack on Christ-Mass an attack on moral absolutes? Because the moral absolutes as written in the Bible are also written in every theist religion in the world, and inscribed in the heart of every human being.
Atheists and secularists may be able to eventually remove every holy book, every religious song, symbol, and teacher from the world, but they can never remove the laws of God from every atom or from the deepest recesses of their hearts.
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I really think it is because about half this country does not value their heritage or maybe even know anything about it. They've been indoctrinated themselves and don't have a clue as to who the founding fathers even were, let alone that they were Christians. THey are spoon fed what popular opinion should be and they go for it. They are susceptable to the guilt trip put on by special interest groups. They stand for nothing, still stuck in the high school mode of "I want to be liked". It's a shame, but I feel very strongly this attitude will not change without a complete shift in public schools and as we see they are just getting more and more hostile not only to just Christians now, but the Christian roots of this country. I have little hope that this will be turned around.
As an aside, thank the good Lord for the oppurtunity for my child to go to a small Christian school. She not only hears about Christ at every turn, but celebrates Advent and other church year events. I can't say my son's situation is so bad though either. He's autistic and in a preschool for such situation in the local ps and he once came home with a Valentine and then an Easter card with a very forward Christian reference. Teachers did not weed them out or as far as I know repremand the parent so I don't believe most of our schools locally are the hostile places some other school systems seem to be, but I still enjoy my daughter's school where the same thing we teach at home is reinforced by her teacher.
Well here are the full lyrics. Don't see one reference to any Christian holiday. It is a song regarding the winter festivity of riding in a sleigh during a snowy day. I guess any music a Christian plays regularly during their holiday season now is up for being banned. These people are completely off their rockers--absolutely Grinches if ever there was one. I can think of no other explanation then the leftist hatred of what they percieve as Christian or in the case AMERICAN being surpressed and belittled.
Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
O'er the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bobtail ring
Making spirits bright
What fun it is to ride and sing
A sleighing song tonight
Chorus:
Jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
O jingle bells, jingle bells
Jingle all the way
Oh what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh
A day or two ago
I thought I'd take a ride
And soon Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot
We ran into a drifted bank
And there we got upsot
(chorus)
A day or two ago
The story I must tell
I went out on the snow
And on my back I fell
A gent was riding by
In a one-horse open sleigh
He laughed at me as I there lay
But quickly drove away
(chorus)
Now the ground is white
Go it while you're young
Take the girls along
and sing this sleighing song
Just bet a bobtailed bay
Two forty as his speed
Hitch him to an open sleigh and crack!
You'll take the lead
(chorus)
I'm with you. We use a small Christian school, but if folks would just have the conviction to do this, even if in protest for a few months. How on earth could a school half full justify getting its funding if the students left in droves. It won't happen though, you'll hear people b*tch about it at work, but that's all they will do. It ticks them off, but is isn't worth losing the late model car over or having a few less Christmas gifts to have someone home to be there with the kids.
You know, they only reinforce the truth found in the Bible by their hatred of it. Really, that is all they do for most Christians who pay attention.
Hey...I thought the second verse of Jingle Bells was...
'Down in Mexico,
They have got no snow,
They ain't got no snow,
Down in Meh-i-co!
Sit around all day,
Here the music play,
When the people sing,
Tequila glasses ring'.
:-) In your wild Mexican, sunnyshiny dreams it is;-)
Seriously...that's what we sing! *LOL*
I go out with the Light Opera Society I'm involved with every year...and that's the second verse to Jingle Bells that we sing every year! *LOL* (Last year we made €16,000...which is about $20,000 for Meals on Wheels, and a couple of other charities singing that *LOL*)
They got their inch, and are now starting on the mile.
You are exactly right. These ungodly public schools exist because "Christian" parents send their children to them, thus insuring that the state pays the school for their attendance, and Christian taxpayers pay the salaries of these anti-Christ school administrators who are offending the faith of these little ones every day in this anti-God environment. And you know what Jesus said about offending the faith of the children, I'm sure. (Clue...it has something to do with a millstone being hung around one's neck and being dropped in the ocean.)
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