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Posted on 12/25/2002 9:04:06 AM PST by TopQuark
Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones from your Jewish friend! Have a wonderful holiday and a very happy, healthy, and prosperous New Year.
It seems to be getting harder to celebrate this holiday, with G-d being removed not only from our schools but also increasingly from our public life in general. I am appalled to hear that the symbols of this holiday are under attack --- and not from the usual perpetrators such as ACLU, but from those in our government, academe, and media that refer to themselves as "post-Christian."
We should put G-d back into the lives of our children and return this country to its Christian roots and Judeo-Christian values. But in the meantime, do not let those attacking Christmas traditions make your holiday less merry and peaceful.
Merry Christmas!
Best wishes and regards to all my Christian friends,
TQ
Well Said
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Absolutley. Last week, the flight attandant on my flight said they wernt even allowed to say Merry Christmas. What are we supposed to say when someone sneezes now?
Being incorrigible, I'll come right out and say stewardess.................;-)
Merry Christmas and Shalom Aleichem.
Merry Christmas!
We have had a wonderful outpouring of support this year in my area from the Jewish community and once again they were there to help. What a blessing!
Lets not let a few rip the fabric apart that has made this a great and blessed nation.
Merry Christmas!
I couldn't agree with you more, TQ.
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to you and your family!
-LT
Ditto! :P
Sincerely, Merry Christmas
Support Hillarycare?
It is a sign of respect to He who transcends all.
That's the idea. See tetragrammaton
Thank you, TQ, for your kind and sincere wishes.
" Do not fear, Mary. You have found favor with God.
You shall conceive and bear a son and give him the name Jesus.
Great will be his dignity and he will be called Son of the Most High.
The Lord God will give him the throne of David his father.
He will rule over the house of Jacob forever and his reign will be without end."
When government and society try to remove God from the lives of people, the results can be quite surprising. Here is what generally happens. Enjoy! God Bless!
The Taliban blew up ancient Buddhist statues. They said, it is their country, they can do as they please. But these priceless artifacts belonged to the entire world, not to the Taliban. They committed a terrible crime, one of their many crimes in the name of Islam. Literally, for hundreds of years, since the 1200’s, the same religion of peace has come down from Afghanistan and struck India, time and again. Islam tore down the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain temples and monuments which were thousands of years old, priceless treasures of mankind that belonged to all of mankind. They tore down there monuments and temples, and used the stone to build mosques on top of the holy spot. They did the same in Turkey to the first Christain Churches. They tore down the famous first churches of the Christian founders, and built either left them in ruins, took the stone, marble, wood to build palatial homes for their despotic rulers, or built mosques on the sites. They did the same in Israel. They will do the same here in America, or in Canada, or U.K. or Russia. Now I read a statement from a mullah in Egypt. It is politicized Islam, the Islam of terror. He says he wants to tear down the pyramids. Indeed, the marble was already stripped hundreds of years ago by the same Islamists to again build palatial residents to their despotic rules, for mosques. But it is almost, sad and comical. This mullah, in the name of the religion of peace, wants to tear down the pyramids. In the name of Islam. When they take over, he says, Egypt is their country. They can do as they please, he says. The pyramids, they now belong to all of mankind. And I think, like the saying goes, the Pyramids do not fear Time, Time fears the Pyramids.
In the 1400’s, the religion of peace came to old Delhi. It was one of the worst massacres of humankind. Hundreds of thousands were murdered in the streets, woman raped, and this attack on this region and subsequent areas of North India were unparalleled until Nazi Germany. What the Romans did to Solomon’s Temple, to Jerusalem, it cannot in any imagination even compare to what the religion of peace did to people of India.
Today is Christmas. Can I call myself a Christian? I am not. But, I think often about the suffering of Jesus on the Cross. When the Romans put the heavy nails through his wrists, and feet. The agony of this Prince, a once and future King from the family of David. This Jesus the Christ was a royal man. Yet, he spoke such a message. And so brave. It pains me greatly to think that such a King of the Jews had to endure this, and I think again and again about the cross.
In the 7 th Century, before what we call the modern Christmas with the tree and toys, an Old English book said, ‘Wondrous was the cross of victory. I saw a glorious tree, joyfully gleaming. It was adorned with garments, decked with gold, and jewels decorated the tree of the Lord. Through the gold, I could see the strife of wretched men, that once bled on my right side. Stained with lowing of blood, but adorned with treasure. All creation wept, and laments the King’s death, Christ who was on the cross. But there is suffering and victory in the cross.’
I would like Jesus to come back and rule as King of the Jews. That would be my Christmas wish. My forefathers decorated a tree. I do not think it is a bad thing, a pagan thing. It goes way back. It represents the King. In these times, I think my people could use such a King. Because we are in grave danger. Jesus would be the King I would want.
During the same time in the Middle Ages, a Christian lay person became a religious leader of people. He actually wanted to burn crosses because he could not stand a symbol with which Christ was so horribly tortured and so cruelly killed. But in the end, the people themselves convinced him that this was not necessary. They said, this symbol will tell the Islamic invaders that as Jesus the King suffered to give us so much, we do not fear what they want to do to us. It will be a battle standard even.
And it was.
Merry Christmas.
Having different beliefs with respect, not arguing, is a nice gift.
Thank you for your thoughfulness.
We are on the home stretch on yet another wonderful, wonder filled Holiday Season, and I'm not being PC here, I'm just trying to cover all we celebrate.
I am a lucky man, celebrating Chanukah with my wife and in-laws, then we all get together again to enjoy a typical Cuban celebration of La Noche Buena (the good night) A.K.A Christmas Eve, which all culminates in a loud, happy, party at my folks welcoming the arrival of yet another year.
Thanks for the post my friend, and G_d bless you and yours.
Blessed are you, Oh L-rd our G-d King of the Universe, who has kept us alive and sustained us and permitted us to enjoy this day.
With love and fellowship from Brian
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