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[Pat4ever]

Amazing and very timely reflection! Thank you for sharing the true message of resistance and hope.

[Aevery_Freeman]

Holidays aren't mere parties, they are messages. Knots of time that we tie around the fingers of our lives so that we remember what our ancestors meant us to never forget. That they lived and died for a reason. The party is a celebration, but if we forget what it celebrates, then it becomes a celebration of celebration. A hollow and soulless festival of the self.

...the new slavery of social justice.

Wow, written to Jews but speaks to Christians as well.

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Thank You for this.

I will link it to the “Pray For The Peace of Jerusalem Thread” Today.

Happy Chanukah, My FRiend.

[MinuteGal]

There's a reason I asked to be on the ping list for Greenfield's articles.

This one embodies my reason. He's one of the best political and cultural writers and analysts publishing today.

Leni

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[GOPJ]

For those liberals who believe that Jewish identity should be limited to donating to help Haiti, agitating for illegal aliens and promoting the environment; Chanukah is a threatening holiday. They have secularized it, dressed it up with teddy bears and toys, trimmed it with the ecology and civil rights of their new faith. Occasionally a Jewish liberal learns the history of it and writes an outraged essay about nationalism and militarism, but mostly they are content to bury it in the same dark cellar that they store the rest of the history of their people and the culture that they left behind.

Holidays aren't mere parties, they are messages. Knots of time that we tie around the fingers of our lives so that we remember what our ancestors meant us to never forget. That they lived and died for a reason. The party is a celebration, but if we forget what it celebrates, then it becomes a celebration of celebration. A hollow and soulless festival of the self. The Maccabees fought because they believed they had something worth fighting for. Not for their possessions, but for their traditions, their families and their G-d. The celebration of Chanukah is not just how we remember them, but how we remember that we are called upon to keep their watch. To take up their banner and carry their sword.

Our liberals do the same with American holidays... "President's Day' - an abomination where we celebrate Jimmah Carter and Slick Willy - is NOT equal to a celebration of Washington's Birthday or Lincoln's greatness. Liberals rob us of our faith, beliefs and courage... for the same slave message Jewish liberals push: 'don't worry - be happy'...

[GOPJ]

It takes courage to resist physical oppression -greater to resist cultural oppression-Sultan Knish

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[yldstrk]

It is also a holiday of the one true God, freedom of religion and celebrating the faithfulness of God to His people

[Albion Wilde]

Happy Hannukah
to my FReeper FRiends and their families!

[Uri’el-2012]

Every year that we celebrate Chanukah, the left makes another attempt to "desecrate the temple" by destroying its meaning and replacing it with the usual grab bag of social justice issues under the union label of "Tikkun Olam"

Atheist Jews think Tikkun Olam is about Marxism.

Stealing from others to do Mitzvot.

[rmlew]

Happy Hanukkah. It isn’t about presents, latkes, or driedles, or chocolate:
“2:17 Then answered the king’s officers, and said to Mattathias on this wise, Thou art a ruler, and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and brethren:
2:18 Now therefore come thou first, and fulfil the king’s commandment, like as all the heathen have done, yea, and the men of Juda also, and
such as remain at Jerusalem: so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the king’s friends, and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold, and many rewards.
2:19 Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king’s dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments:
2:20 Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers.
2:21 God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.
2:22 We will not hearken to the king’s words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left.
2:23 Now when he had left speaking these words, there came one of the Jews in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king’s commandment.
2:24 Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgment: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the
altar.
2:25 Also the king’s commissioner, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and the altar he pulled down.
2:26 Thus dealt he zealously for the law of God like as Phinees did unto Zambri the son of Salom.
2:27 And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous of the law, and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me.
2:28 So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all all that ever they had in the city.

First Book of Maccabees, Chapter 2.

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[JoeFromSidney]

This isn't just a message for Jews. It's a message from God for all of us. He gave us free will, and we need political freedom in order to exercise that free will.