Greens, Atheists Attack Chanukah Candles cause global warming, Maccabees compared to Osama.

The Jewish Week ^ | 12/12/2007 | by Jonathan Mark

[Forgiven_Sinner]

A good article that notes the media's hypocrisy of attacking Ann Coulter for saying she believes in Christianity, compared to their silence over Hitchens and others who say the world would be better off without Jews. Hmmmn, seems I heard that before, last century, wasn't it???

[Forgiven_Sinner]

And, in deference to the Ann Coulter Rule on Free Republic, here's Ann:

[padre35]

What next?

[Gay State Conservative]

It’s no more insulting to Jews for a Christian to state that Christianity is “superior” to Judaism than it is to Christians for Jews to make the opposite claim.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Over the last forty years I’ve noticed that when a holiday arrives and an iconclastic opposition group springs up, the news media will automaticly move toward that group.

Maybe it is the old newspaper rule...On a slow news day throw a dead cat in front of a politician and report his reaction.
In this case it is... throw an iconclastic viewpoint in front of a religious person and report the reaction.

[Blue_Ridge_Mtn_Geek]

‘On the Web, the popular blog Wonkette, blared, how will Coulter “finally complete Hitler’s Dream? She’s going to convert all the poor lost Jews to her religion,” although Coulter had no plans to do that.’

Hitler’s dream was to rid the world of both Jews and Christians; the latter he viewed as “polluted” with “Jewish tainted” ideas. His contempt for the Christian churches, and especially the clergy, was complete.

Wonkette is just an ignorant twit.

[Mygirlsmom]

Gil Hoffman reports in the Jerusalem Post (Dec. 4), “In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment. The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.”

You have GOT to be kidding me!

Am I the only person who remembered the dire predictions of weather calamity that were supposed to occur when Sadaam set fire to the Kuwaiti oil fields back in the Gulf War?

Why, if the atmosphere can't handle a lousy 15 extra gms of C02, would that have not PERMANENTLY catapulted us toward disaster?

I recently started selling candles - nice ones, made in the USA and everything. Never been much of a candle person, but now it seems I'm burning them every day for HOURS at a time. And I also have this nasty habit of breathing. And if there's any global warming, could someone please send it my way? It's pretty nippy here right now.

[G8 Diplomat]

Greens, Atheists Attack Chanukah Candles cause global warming

Please tell me this is satire. Hanukkah candles cause global warming??! You've gotta be joking. Just when I thought people couldn't get any more stupid...

And isn't it funny how everyone goes wild over a few comments by Ann Coulter or Mel Gibson about Jews, but doesn't say a word when some Iranian dictator threatens to kill ALL the Jews and wipe Israel clean off the map?

[MarkL]

Why, if the atmosphere can't handle a lousy 15 extra gms of C02, would that have not PERMANENTLY catapulted us toward disaster?

Hey! We can offset the candles CO2 by having a bunch of "Chanukah bushes!"

Mark

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Hey! We can offset the candles CO2 by having a bunch of "Chanukah bushes!"

There you go again... blaming the Bushes!

[MarkL]

Hey! We can offset the candles CO2 by having a bunch of "Chanukah bushes!"

There you go again... blaming the Bushes!

Not this time!!! This time, "The Bushes fix the problem!!!"

Mark

[Zero Sum]

Writer Steve Almond describes himself as assimilated and intermarried, but his wife wanted to convert to Judaism so he did some homework: He concludes, “Osama Bin Laden may be the person on the planet most attuned to the joys of Hanukkah.” After all, the Maccabees were an “insurgency,” and Eliezer, one of the Maccabees, who died sacrificing himself in battle, “sounds to me like a Biblical version of the suicide bombers who launch themselves at military convoys in Iraq. He isn’t trying to kill and maim innocent bystanders, so it’s not an exact comparison, but his mindset is essentially the same: He relishes the chance to give his life in exchange for the glory of the cause, and his own name.”

According to this dolt, this is only a minor consideration. And liberals wonder why we think they're idiots?

[VeniVidiVici]

“In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment. The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.”

Don't worry! I'll smoke an extra turkey next year to make up for the loss of carbon dioxide by not burning a Hanukka candle.

[Zero Sum]

Rabbi Benny Lau of Jerusalem’s Ramban Congregation, who considers himself an environmental activist, told the Post, “People in the green movement who have an agenda have unfortunately made it anti-religious.... The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit.”

Hey, I think I just found a new tagline!

"Liberalism: The damage ends up being a thousand times the benefit!" :)

[ripley]

“network of spiritual progressives.”

kind of like a cracked bell.

[Forgiven_Sinner]

Go ahead and burn your Channukah candles—you can use my offsets. I promise not to burn any this year! ;)

[MarkL]

Writer Steve Almond describes himself as assimilated and intermarried, but his wife wanted to convert to Judaism so he did some homework: He concludes, “Osama Bin Laden may be the person on the planet most attuned to the joys of Hanukkah.” After all, the Maccabees were an “insurgency,” and Eliezer, one of the Maccabees, who died sacrificing himself in battle, “sounds to me like a Biblical version of the suicide bombers who launch themselves at military convoys in Iraq. He isn’t trying to kill and maim innocent bystanders, so it’s not an exact comparison, but his mindset is essentially the same: He relishes the chance to give his life in exchange for the glory of the cause, and his own name.”

According to this dolt, this is only a minor consideration. And liberals wonder why we think they're idiots?

Just another example of "moral relativism," which in reality is a complete LACK of morals. It allows the leftist to excuse ANYTHING. It allows them to justify any horrible action, no matter what the cost or results. That's one of the reasons that many of the most brutal and deadly regimes have been by leftists of one stripe or another throughout history, and certainly within the last 100 years.

Mark

[nina0113]

He isn’t trying to kill and maim innocent bystanders, so it’s not an exact comparison, but his mindset is essentially the same: He relishes the chance to give his life in exchange for the glory of the cause, and his own name.”

I haven't noticed Osama relishing the chance to give his OWN life.

[Alouette]

Chanukah “celebrates the triumph of tribal Jewish backwardness.”

Michael Medved says the same thing.

BTW, Chanukah ended last week, so no more of this "Happy Holidays" baloney. MERRY CHRISTMAS FREEPERS

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[Alouette]

Bush’s fault.