Posted on 12/24/2007 5:35:07 AM PST by Invisigoth
Focus on the Family has never seen a pointless war it wouldn’t wage.
So the purported War on Christmas was made for Dr. James Dobson’s crew. Jesus Christ overturned the moneychangers’ tables and excoriated them for turning God’s house into a den of thieves. Dobson just wants the thieves to wish you a Merry Christmas.
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Amen!
However, I would quibble even with the fact that Christmas was EVER about the birth of Christ. There is no evidence Jesus was born December 25th. The best available evidence is that he was born in the Fall, not in the Winter near the Solstice.
For Christians, Easter is the truly sacred holiday. So if Christmas becomes secularized, it’s not a big deal. Dobson needs to find more important causes to worry about.
Anything from Dobson’s mouth (or pen) should be taken with a grain of salt and a dose of Alka Seltzer.
For decades there has been a relentless drive to secularize this society at all levels in all ways. Atheism or Secularism is merely a different form of religious believe. It is every bit as aggressive at pushing it's dogmas as they accuse the religious Conservatives of being.
For decades now the secularists have been waging relentless war on the Christian values and traditions of this society. Now some people are finally fighting back so, of course, the pseudo intellectual in the Conservative movement, as usual, rush to frag their own political allies rather then take on the secular aggressors.
Be really nice if the pseudo intellectual among the Conservative movement tried occasional attacking the Left on anything instead of relentlessly manufacturing really stupid reasons to yet again whine hysterically at their own side.
Happy Holidays and a Merry Christmas!
No its not. Its on a different day every year. how sacred is that? You remember what date JFK died on, No one knows what day the son of man died on.
What kind of east-coast, secular-worshiping, politically-correct, thumb-sucking, bed-wetting, frilly-girly-pants-wearing, socialist-worshiping tripe is this.
So who here thinks business is a sin, sounds like a hillary sound bite to me.
I’ll grant that Christmas has not been a particularly spiritual holliday in this country, but the reason to fight is that the same people that want to take Christ out of Christmas are the same that want to reeducate our children, take our guns, lose in Iraq, tax us into submission, and at the same time build prayer rooms for the ROP.
Think of Dobson what you will, but he is on the right side.
Hey, wait a minute - Easter Sunday is the first Sunday following the first full moon following the Spring equinox; a combination of lunar and solar markers.
Unlike every other Christian holy day, Easter is still based on the lunar calendar. That's why it falls on different days every year, and why it almost always coincides with Passover.
If Dan Calabrese is against, then I’m for it. There really is an effort to stamp out “Christmas” because it is the biggest holiday of the year. It doesn’t matter that it was not the date Christ was born. It is the date that Christians have decided to celebrate Christ’s birthday. If it were not, it would not be a holiday at all. Secularists are horrified at the success of Christmas in trumping the importance of Christ’s birth and want to stamp out the source of its meaning. The good news is that the leftists are losing the war on Christmas and that’s why Dan Calabrese is crying like a little baby who has soild his diaper.
If they were playing Bingo! in that Temple, Jesus probably wouldn't want to get a bunch of women worked up at Him. And that Temple would still be in operation today, because nobody would bother those women.
Excuse me, we are not talking about ‘psuedo-intellectuals’- we are talking about private merchants who sell to Christians, Jews, Muslims, Atheists and Pagans.
They don’t care one whit about ‘secularizing society’. The only thing they care about is selling to the maximum number of potential buyers. So they go out of their way not to offend anyone.
It is completely their choice. In a free society operating under a free market, we should respect their choices. And if you feel offended, feel free to shop somewhere else.
I disagree, as you see.
“I would quibble even with the fact that Christmas was EVER about the birth of Christ” .... CHRISTMAS HAS ALWAYS BEEN ABOUT THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. A holy God invaded an unholy world.
Easter, termed Easter, is sort of a bastardization of the celebration of the resurrection of Christ. Alot of Celtic pagan traditions worked their way into some Chistian celebration in order to more smoothly assimilate pagans into the church after they heard the Good News. The Easter Bunny and the name Easter (a modern pronunciation of the name of a pagan spring goddess) are leftovers from this assimilation. However, as far as scholars can tell, the resurrection of Christ was celebrated by Christians as early as a hundred years after the event took place.
The fact is is that our salvation is dependant on the events of Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday (which is, by the way, why most Christians worship on Sunday instead of the Sabbath) making Easter - or Resurrection Sunday - the most important holiday on the Christian Calender.
Our ancestors were not always Christian.There were people in Europe who were there before Christianity spread across Europe. These folks were pagans. A tip of the hat to our pagan ancestors implies no disrespect for Christianity.
I have no problem with Christmas trees or the Easter Bunny. They are extras to be enjoyed and not “anti” anything.
I have never in my life had someone tell me that I couldn’t say “Merry Christmas.”
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