Posted on 11/19/2007 6:58:30 PM PST by george76
Crud. Here we go again.
Strap on your flak jackets - ceramic plates are not required - and load up the snowballs. We've got another "War on Christmas" raging.
I know, it is simply the silliest thing.
Hang on a second. Can I even write "Christmas" here? The last thing I want is to offend any non-Christian readers. But "The holiday that falls on Dec. 25" seems unwieldy.
Then again, so is every battle waged in this so-called war, from displays of colored lights to "holiday" trees. It is downright stupid, too, this annual November rush to "defend" Christmas, a time that makes otherwise-intelligent men and women turn into bile-spewing, foot-stamping children.
Consider Larimer County Sheriff Jim Alderden. He is a fine and quite funny man in conversation, yet someone ought to inform him that a Christmas tree has as much to do with Christianity as a catcher's mask.
Still, the sheriff has invited the public to come to his headquarters on Dec. 1 to help him decorate the tree he plans to display as a protest against a Fort Collins task force's equally silly recommendation that the city dump its tree and allow only secular displays and white lights on city property.
The sheriff is putting up a Christmas tree to defend his religious freedoms.
Sheriff Alderden pretty much lays it out in the latest edition of the Bull's-eye, the newsletter he publishes on the department's Web site.
In it, he is vexed, to put it mildly: "Fort Collins is becoming more like the imbecilic borough of Boulder than many would like to admit, where social agendas substitute for common sense."
He blasts the task force's recommendation to city council that acceptable symbols be limited to snowflakes, snowmen, snowballs, ice skates, skis, penguins and polar bears, calling it stupid.
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
Good on ya Sheriff!
Keep making the A holes mad!
The sheriff is right....
It is an attempt to placate and not offend Muslims.
Does the Christmas holiday offend Jews? I say 'no'.
My wife is Jewish and has no problem with Christmas whatsoever. Nor does anyone of her family or any Jewish person I have ever associated with.
Does the Christmas holiday offend...Buddhists? Not darned likely.
Sikhs? Puhleez.
Mormons? Nope.
Shinto? Nope.
Hindi? Nope.
It is those that practice the religion that is at war with every other religion. Islam.
And retailers, government officials, school administrators and all other stripe if low to mid-level Caesar wannnabe who is going out of their way to keep the Muslims happy.
Time to say 'tough shiite'.
It's a Christmas tree...a Christmas carol...a Christmas Season. Get over it. It will all be over before you know it my intolerant Islamic friends and sycophants. We are Christians, we are staying and we aren't going to put up with it anymore.
And how about the moron who filed suit with the ACLU demanding that Christmas NOT be a Federal Holiday because of the supposed Seperation of Church and State...Blah, blah, blah..
I hear the ACLJ is going to come to the defense, good for them!!
I was just wondering when the War on Christmas Campaign would be started this year!
Volks, fire up your Christmas engines and go shopping! Support our economy!
I thought this article was going to be about Saudi Arabia. LOL
I found, on the internet, a pattern for the nicest nativity with five figures, Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus plus two sheep, as well as a manger, and an arch backdrop piece. It looked like just what I wanted so I sent for the plans and a large piece of carbon paper for transfering the plans onto a sheet of plywood (we ended up using medium-density overlay because it is lots more stable).
It was too late to build and paint it for last Christmas, but in Oct. of this year, I dug it out, and my son-in-law (bless his heart) cut the figures out of the plywood very carefully with a reciprocating saw (did a beautiful job!). The background is the piece you cut the figures from. I have now primed, painted. and exterior-varnished the figures, and am now priming and finishing the braces to hold the thing together. Mr. Adler will screw it together when all is dry.
It will be about five feet high and four feet wide and will have a floodlight in back of it to shine through where the figures are spaced from each other to outline them with light at night. During the day, it will show up as painted figures.
It will go in our front yard, and it will be all I am putting up this year and in future years, too, I think. I would encourage other Christians on this list to consider making their Christmas decs reflect the Christmas story as a means of witnessing their faith. We will need to do this witnessing more and more on an individual basis as Christianity is pushed farther and farther from the public square.
I found the plans for this item by googling nativity scenes, or something like that, not sure since it has now been a year since I sent for it. It has been a bit of work, but fun, and it should last for a number of years. I am using exterior varnish for the finish to try to extend the life of the piece.
I wouldn't necessarily want to display it to a professional artist, but short of that, it has turned out quite nice. I hope to be able to put it up the day after Tg.
Just an idea for those who might be interested in doing something like this.
Nail on head . ;-)
I think that every Christian church building in the country should have a Nativity scene OUTSIDE of it and floodlit.
Email the sherriff Jim Alderden to show your support, alderdja@larimer.org
HEAR! HEAR!
I hope the ostriches who thought they could just put their heads in the sand and this bigotry against Christians would just go away, will WAKE UP and see what’s happening.
FIGHT BACK. Don’t let them do this. Boycott whomever, whatever. And if anyone is “offended” too damn bad. We would care less. This is a Christian nation first and foremost, founded on Christian principles.
I figure the annual practice of The Sparring With The Infidel has become a Christmas Tradition right up there with wassailing and hasty pudding.
A hundred and fifty years ago it was the Christian establishment that was trying to put the kibosh on the Holiday that falls on the 25th of December every year. Said it was just an excuse for drunkenness and gluttony. The People weren’t having any of it. There was a rather famous book called A Christmas Carol written about it if I remember correctly.
To counter this you just have to sing the new Christmas Song:
Christmas with a Capital “C”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAckfn8yiAQ
...well said and true. Incoming European immigrants of the 1800s brought it. Early Protestant communities rejected it.
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