Posted on 12/15/2016 7:49:04 AM PST by b4its2late
Our company has enough H1B visas that last year they DID try to make Diwali all-inclusive and my non-Hindi boss was pressured to participant in a dramatization of some folklore legend about a sword.
It’s anti-Christian political re-education. The traditions of this nation are under attack. Equal time is to be given to atheists to speak out against Christmas and religion.
You’re right!
I’ll take the other side of the argument. It’s called Freedom of Religion #1. There is no evidence that Jesus was born on Dec. 25 or that anybody anywhere celebrated it while He was walking the earth #2. Jesus and the Disciples never had a Christmas tree, hung stockings with care or waited for Ol’ St. Nick or did anything else on Dec. 25 #3.
Well, so isnt Santa Claus, and Christmas trees.
There are the longest nights of the year. Give us a break to cut loose once in a while. Let us have our harmless fun.
So what?
It is a distraction from the true worship God desires. It is just another ritual and ordinance that is man made that has some of the trappings of Christian worship that would confuse someone that heard the real Gospel for the first time. If Jesus is our example then we should ask “Is this something He did or would do?”.
All that telling people how to PARTY?
Boggles the mind.
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It doesn’t distract me from the true worship that God desires.
Maybe that’s because as I get older I am living a much more “retired” life. I haven’t watched TV (even via internet) in 20+ years; I don’t listen to the radio due to my hearing disability (and thus have never heard the voices of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump or Rush Limbaugh); I never go shopping. Thus I am blessedly sheltered from what so irksomely distracts so many people.
I realize my experience is highly atypical.
“I do not find “Festivus” funny at all”
That’s the spirit!
My turn: I can’t do it this year. My back hurts too much.
My dog just complained that it’s so cold he stuck to a tree.
I had a similar thought when I saw red-nosed reindeer.
I did not know that was a religious symbol.
Rudolf was an alcoholic reindeer hence the red boozehound nose. They tried to keep it under wraps but The Enquirer busted that story loose. The paparazzi are still on Santa’s “naughty list’ for that stunt.
Notice how they left out Festivus for the rest of us, though.
:D
If you want to attend, ok. If you don't, ok.
See how tolerant we are?
TWU should be called TLU, if you catch my drift.
Sounds good to me!
As it should be!
But even when I worked at a mega-corp we still had Christmas Parties. Granted that was six years ago. I think people have become so afraid of offending someone, somewhere that they have ground all the fun out of everything.
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