Posted on 02/21/2009 6:03:46 PM PST by GodGunsGuts
It's more than plain to see for anyone willing to see it, the side that's got a difficult time coming to grips with it are the liberals, sunshine.
Try to live in a world where no one is offended for the sake of everyone else, for just once.The more you try not to offend somene the more likely you are to offend everyone.
Of course you don't. You're incapable.
I don't have access to every calendar put out, not ones used for teachers or whatever, the one for the students and their family is the one I'm referring to and it changes every single year: form, format, style, content; but only since the ACLU demanded Christmas be removed so as not to offend anyone, was Christmas removed from ANY school calendar. Period.
Which is the entire point.
I see you like to still get off into side tracks...I hope one day you'll finally understand they're ineffective.
That's because Thanksgiving is, or can be, celebrated by all Americans.
You didn't get the memo? Your ilk is busily attacking that too, seems it's offensive to native Americans.
Your reference to "foreign cultures" is telling here--you seem to view any tradition other than your own as "foreign." How long do Jews, Hindus, and others who might not celebrate Christmas have to be here before their traditions get to be called "American" too?
I don't have problems with foreigners until they come over here demanding Christmas be removed from public calendars or getting into lawsuits because they won't remove their burkhas to take a photo for a driver's license.
Can you share with us the hindu holiday American children have obseved all these years while out of school in mid December to January?
No, the majority Christians' feelings matter too. They just don't trump everyone else's. Sorry if you don't like that very American tradition.
So in your world, in order that your feelings not be hurt, AND to keep us mean ole Christians in check you think Christmas should be removed from public, and that's your idea of us not trumping you?
Man that's just stupid.
BTW are you sure you know what board you're on confucius?
A 'rest' does not mean 'tired.' A physical body needs rest, a spiritual one doesn't. You have inserted a meaning to the word which is not in the scriptures.
I am just going on what another posted earlier, that God spoke in terms that had relevance to man. So, when I read that he said 'he rested from all the work', in my reference, it means, uh, he rested from his work. Work means exertion. Resting from exertion means that there was some tiredness. If it had not been strenuous, the bible was simple said that he created all and that he spent the seventh day admiring his creations. because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
I forgot that you have trouble following an argument in paragraphs that are more than one sentence long.
Sorry.
I’ve been trying to find out exactly what happened in Georgia.
Some sites claim that the issue was renaming the winter break “Christmas holiday” or “Christmas vacation.”
This claim is supported by the statement from the school board’s PR director that I linked to earlier.
(And I notice you have nothing to say about the fact that it was called the “holiday break” for years before the “Christmas” renaming issue.)
Others claim that the issue was removing the word “Christmas” altogether.
This is what you implied when you wrote “For as long as there’s been a Newton School board Dec. 25th has always been referred to as Christmas.”
There’s a difference.
Are you capable of seeing the difference?
So did they stop calling Dec. 25th Christmas, or not?
You write, “I don’t have problems with foreigners until they come over here demanding Christmas be removed from public calendars.”
One of the cases from the catholicleague site I mentioned involved a Jewish person who objected to calling the holiday “Christmas recess.”
Is she a “foreigner” who has “come over here”?
Or is she a, you know, American citizen who doesn’t happen to celebrate Christmas?
Can you imagine such a thing?
You’re insufferably, wantonly mixed up and incoherent. It’s comical because one doesn’t know if you do it on purpose or you really are this completely off, or a combination of both.
I don’t have problems with Jewish people not wanting to call it “Christmas recess”, but I sure do when they demand EVERYONE not call it “Christmas recess” which is exactly the case here.
I’ve know several Jewish people, actually I tend to many elderly Jewish people doing my job and they and their families think it’s absolutely preposterous to go around demanding Christmas ANYTHING publically be silenced or renamed or whatever when such a subject’s come up, just so feelings aren’t hurt or the playing field is leveled or no one’s offended, etc..
It’s the same hopeless liberalism that leads to kids not keeping score because everyone’s a winner. Or every kid gets a trophy because all of them are mvp’s. Or no more dodgeball so no one gets their poor feelings hurt.
Liberalism is simply deranged nonsense.
Do you understand this? Will you EVER?
And going around trying to change American culture and tradition which is PLAINLY Christian, (after all your pal acknowledged it was the dominant and this all enormously powerful force in America), is absolutely the most idiotic kind of ridiculous PC liberalism run amok.
Get a life already. Leave our country and traditions alone! If Christmas or Christianity bother you people this much, places like Cuba would welcome you with open arms and the weather’s great! Or get a shrink to tend to your feelings but leave normal people out of your insecurities!
Now if this country had been founded predominantly, and settled predominantly by Jewish people, you might actually have a valid point.
Which would be a first for you.
I wouldn’t go to Israel demanding “Hannukkah break” be renamed “holiday break” so my feelings wouldn’t be hurt.
And yes, I know that “American citizens” don’t celebrate Christmas, to each his own; but again they’re free to celebrate or not celebrate whatever they like whenever they like. This gives them no right to DEMAND to change our heritage, our culture and our traditions to keep them happy or from being offended or make them feel better about their feelings.
I also know “American citizens” make images of Mary out of dog-crap and call that art.
And I don’t have a bit of use for them either.
I wouldn’t go to Israel demanding “Hannukkah break” be renamed “holiday break” so my feelings wouldn’t be hurt.
Look, doofus, Israel is explicitly a Jewish state. The US is explicitly not a Christian state. The fact that it was founded and settled primarily by Christians and that they have huge political influence does not make it one, any more than the fact that it was founded and settled by white people makes it a white state. That this concept sounds dangerously liberal to you demonstrates your small-mindedness more than it does anything about me.
I know that “American citizens” don’t celebrate Christmas, to each his own...This gives them no right to DEMAND to change our heritage, our culture and our traditions
On the contrary. As American citiznes, they have every right to demand accommodation of their beliefs in the public square. (As do you, of course.) That you compare their requests to artists who desecrate religious symbols--and that you feel compelled to put American citizens in quotes, as though they're not "real" American citizens--again speaks volumes about your pettiness.
I'll second the advice given you earlier: get over yourself.
In the liberal world up is down and down is up. So nope, I'm not surprised in the least!
Look, doofus, Israel is explicitly a Jewish state. The US is explicitly not a Christian state. The fact that it was founded and settled primarily by Christians and that they have huge political influence does not make it one, any more than the fact that it was founded and settled by white people makes it a white state. That this concept sounds dangerously liberal to you demonstrates your small-mindedness more than it does anything about me.
Ah but that's where you're wrong, shocking I know since this is about 100% of the time, the U.S. is a Christian nation, and no the U.S. is not a Jewish state, not a hindu state not a secularist state (at least not yet) but a Christian state. A theocracy no, but neither is Israel's Jewish state a theocracy.
For instance Israel allows non-Jews to participate in their government, the Knesset. Judeo-Christian democracies work that way.
Fascist arab Islamist states and communist secularist states don't.
Which is what the vast majority of Christians understand and prefer to keep it this way.Like I said, if you're offended by Christmas in written form, when people say it, etc., move to Cuba but leave normal folks ALONE already!
On the contrary. As American citiznes, they have every right to demand accommodation of their beliefs in the public square.
But suing people to not hurt their feelings, THAT's not by any stretch of anyone's imagination accomodation libtard!
Tearing apart culture, tradition and hundreds of years of Christian heritage isn't "accomodation" either. And it won't be tolerated.
(As do you, of course.)
Right up until I begin complaining about idiots suing normal people to have all things Christian or Christmas removed from the public?
Oh how very generous of you!
I'll second the advice given you earlier: get over yourself.
You really should look into your projection problem...I'm not the one suing and whining and spinning my head around like Linda Blair because I'm offended by Christmas, ya rocket surgeon!
Uh-huh, but you left out the part about all the lawsuits I’ve initiated...you know to silence all you so easily-offended people with your feelings hurt.
Oh and the 16+ million other unmentionables.
Yeah, other than that...
sticking your head that deep into the sand might cut the oxygen off all together and you need every single particle as it is!
How lucky that the Earth is not “tidally locked” with the Sun!
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