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FR Has Offended Me
Roark

Posted on 12/22/2003 6:48:16 PM PST by RoarkMan

I am deeply offended. Just because I am a conservative I cannot believe that FR would assume that I am a Christian and "wish" me a "Merry Christmas" on the front page of the web-site. I am an atheist and I do not celebrate the birth of Jesus. FR should be open and accommodating to ALL of its members. Just because 99.9999% of the membership is Christian, it does not give FR the right to offend me, the minority. I intend to enlist a swarm of ACLU lawyers in order to bend the forum to accommodate me because, as I said, I am, deeply offended. Please cease your "Merry Christmas" message and replace with a more inclusive "Hi". Thank You.


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KEYWORDS: aclu; atheist; bahumbug; christmas; itschristmas; jesuslovesyou; knowjesusknowpeace; merrychristmas; nojesusnopeace; xmas
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To: RoarkMan
All your holidays are belong to us!
21 posted on 12/22/2003 8:18:36 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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To: RoarkMan
To quote Dennis Prager last week, in his response to a similar kind of whine by the feminist preseident of an atheist organzation: "Get over it. You are nothing but a narcissist, and are thinking only of yourself. If you are offended - tough. If you don't like it - too bad. There are those of us who don't think we should restrict our celebration of a National Holiday, as well as a religious holiday, just because you claim to be offended."
22 posted on 12/22/2003 8:25:24 PM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: RoarkMan
Feliz Navidad.
23 posted on 12/22/2003 8:27:42 PM PST by Corin Stormhands (Proudly being a natural irritant since 1958.)
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To: RoarkMan
I just wanted to belong. To join fellow conservatives with whom I could call "brother" (in a purely nondenominational way, of course).

If you want to call me "brother" that's all right with me. While you're at the ACLU, please tell them "Sister" hummingbird says I hope they have a "Big, Fat Merry Christmas with All the Trimmings!"

Come on, Brother, have some more eggnog!
24 posted on 12/22/2003 8:29:15 PM PST by hummingbird ("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")
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To: RoarkMan
Well, since it isn't your site, you can't dictate what is on the main page.

Merry Christmas to you!

25 posted on 12/22/2003 8:36:35 PM PST by Maigrey (Founding Member of the Jack Straw Fan Club!)
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To: stands2reason; DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet; Chad Fairbanks; Holly_P
This is NOT a ping. REPEAT. This is NOT a ping. Merry _________!

Oh, now look what you've done, s2r! How am I ever going to read all of the "Al Qaeda again threatens New York, Washington and Los Angeles" thread if we keep pinging? I'm still not over the multiple pinging I got the other day! Not that I would want to be...heh, heh, heh...
26 posted on 12/22/2003 8:38:34 PM PST by hummingbird ("If it wasn't for the insomnia, I could have gotten some sleep!")
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To: RoarkMan
This is a joke, right? :^)

Merry Christmas!
Happy Hanika!
Happy Holidays!
27 posted on 12/22/2003 8:39:02 PM PST by GodBlessUSA
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To: RoarkMan
Merry Christmas

Happy Hanukkah

Um'goki Kwanzaa

Happy Festivus

Llan goli Yule

Blessed whatever.

Celebrate whatever festival you choose that coincides with the Winter Solstice. If you do not celbrate the Winter Solstice, then have a nice ordinary day, a$$hole.

28 posted on 12/22/2003 8:40:26 PM PST by CholeraJoe (Yo!! Beiswenger. Stay in the f*cking crease, fer crying out loud!)
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To: CholeraJoe
I think some people have way too much time on their hands. Merry Christmas!
29 posted on 12/22/2003 9:20:43 PM PST by tioga
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To: stands2reason; hummingbird; Chad Fairbanks
This is NOT a ping. REPEAT. This is NOT a ping.

Hey, if it looks like a ping, and walks like a ping...

30 posted on 12/22/2003 10:10:42 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (MERRY CHRISTMAS!)
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To: RoarkMan
It's unfortunate that you are offended by the mention of Christmas. I am not, in return, "offended" by your atheism.

I must be unusually easygoing or something.
31 posted on 12/22/2003 10:13:09 PM PST by DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet (MERRY CHRISTMAS!)
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To: RoarkMan
That's it! I'm so offending by this thread that I am now going to have my frontal lobe removed and become a liberal.

For the record: I am an atheist but my "offense" was satirical. To the people who didn't get that: Come On! Was is not obvious.

Merry Christmas to all and to all - vote right!
32 posted on 12/22/2003 10:18:08 PM PST by RoarkMan (no tag line entered)
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To: CholeraJoe
I am offended that you left "Happy Festivus" out of your list. Clearly you are a anti-Festivus bigot.
33 posted on 12/22/2003 11:08:28 PM PST by lowbridge ("Is it just me, or is Kwanzaa becoming way too commercialized?" -Ann Coulter)
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To: CholeraJoe
Okay on second look, you did include Happy Festivus...I'll find something else to get offended at. Give me some time to htink something up.
34 posted on 12/22/2003 11:10:01 PM PST by lowbridge ("Is it just me, or is Kwanzaa becoming way too commercialized?" -Ann Coulter)
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To: DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet
It's unfortunate that you are offended by the mention of Christmas. I am not, in return, "offended" by your atheism.

Obviously you need more "insensitivity training" so you will know when to complain and file a lawsuit. Don't be a pushover! File your lawsuit today!

35 posted on 12/22/2003 11:24:31 PM PST by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
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To: RoarkMan
offending = offended
36 posted on 12/22/2003 11:34:53 PM PST by RoarkMan (no tag line entered)
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To: RoarkMan
Merry Christmas RoarkMan. And a Happy New Year.

37 posted on 12/22/2003 11:59:26 PM PST by Fledermaus (Fascists, Totalitarians, Baathists, Communists, Socialists, Democrats - what's the difference?)
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To: GodBlessUSA
Looks like a joke to me!
38 posted on 12/23/2003 12:01:33 AM PST by Fledermaus (Fascists, Totalitarians, Baathists, Communists, Socialists, Democrats - what's the difference?)
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To: lowbridge

Uh, what do ya mean you don't believe in Festivus Matt?>/b>

39 posted on 12/23/2003 12:04:02 AM PST by Fledermaus (Fascists, Totalitarians, Baathists, Communists, Socialists, Democrats - what's the difference?)
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40 posted on 12/23/2003 12:42:48 AM PST by kayak (Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!)
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