Posted on 10/25/2007 11:48:44 AM PDT by lilylangtree
The Postal Service announced the new 2007 Christmas stamp "The Madonna of the Carnation" for Catholics. Also, the USPS came out with the Christmas stamps commemorating the Muslim holiday of EID (Sep 28). Plus, USPS will release stamps recognizing Kwanzaa and Hanukkah (Oct 26). And for those in the "none of the above" category, the Holiday Knits stamps series will be available as of today.
I commend the Postal Service for its political correctness. However, as a Christian that believes in Jesus Christ, where is the Christmas stamp to represent the Christian belief?
Has our country moved so far away from its Christian foundation that we must now ask "where is our representation"?
PLEASE tell me you’re kidding.
See post #83
Except for the superfluous fact that she bore the Son of Man in her womb for nine months exclusively and her placenta saw that He was fed, oxygenated, and formed as God-Man. She probably spoke to Him, felt Him kick and felt His Life in a manner no other creature on earth has ever or could possibly have done. Aside from that, just another bystander.
Whoops! I meant #97
Nope, he's a CATHOLIC saint after all ;-)
LEONARDO da Vinci (b. 1452, Vinci, d. 1519, Cloux, near Amboise)
The Madonna of the Carnation
1478-80
Oil on panel, 62 x 47,5 cm
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/html/l/leonardo/01/6carnat.html
That is true, BUT the Church that Jesus founded IS the Catholic Church. EVERY other Christian religion today is an offshoot of the Catholic Church. That's what I meant - the Catholic Church started Christianity. OK?
Very much so. But not the way you'd probably like to think.
As a Catholic, I find your comment "as a Christian that believes in Jesus Christ, where is the Christmas stamp to represent the Christian belief?
Your comment was insulting beyond belief, but sadly par for the course.
What you need to do is use google.com to search for "little red man, herb woman, reindeer man, thor, odin".
Should keep you busy for a bit.
The ancestors of the Sa'ami people in the far North (who have a high incidence of dwarfism BTW) were "Herb Woman" and "Reindeer Man".
Many modern religious groups that can trace their origins back to a failed missionary activity among the Sa'ami mounted by the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1500s and 1600s can be found in America. Many of them substitute the use of peyote for amanita muscaria.
Tell her, "Fine, marriage will be good practice."
While that makes sense, I figure the postal service chooses infant pictures of Christ because it is for Christmas, which celebrates his birth.
I think it would be neat to see a nativity stamp though. I always liked this one by Rembrandt, although I don't know how well it would translate into a stamp:
So...you're going Kwanzaa this year?
He wears Little Red Man's colors, and hangs around with reindeer.
Is that your complaint, Portnoy?
Oh, I agree! Speaking as a Southern Baptist, I have NO problems with this picture. I mean, after all, I'm pretty sure that Mary was there for the original Christmas Day! haha!
49 posted on 10/25/2007 1:09:07 PM MDT by Bluegrass Conservative
A study of the Holy Word of Elohim ( Luke 1 ) will show that Yah'shua If you were to search the scriptures like the Bereans,
shalom b'shem Yah'shua
you find that Yah'shua was not born on Dec 25th,
The birthday for the Pagan god Mithras.
was born on the Feast of Tabernacles when He Tabernacled amongst us.
Sigh...Another journalism grad from Columbia!
“Hey, if we want to get technical, Jesus was a criminal too. : )”
Well likely true by the local laws of the time. But comparing “Dr.” Maulana Karenga with Jesus........nooooooo. LOL! Do a google search on his name and Kwaanza, very informative. At least the holiday Juneteenth has some hsitory to it.
Let’s see....Madonna and child...Christmas...birth of Christ...nope, I don’t see the connection either. </sarcasm>
It’s only a graven image if you worship with. And as a believer who does not interpret the Bible 100% literally, my own take is that where it refers to “false gods”, “graven images” and “idolatry” it’s warning about the very real dangers inherent in materialism.
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