[MarkL]

Can you explain what you mean by "mocking?"

I can see it as ignoring Christmas, but mocking it? I don't get it.

Mark

[Jorge]

I think you have way too much time on your hands.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Not at all.

It says, "Happy Holidays from Google"..

[inkling]

Indifference is different from mocking.

[rawhide]

Actually, google has been changing the design of their logo for the past few days. This is the end result, just like a comic strip. The one before this, was showing the mother knitting the sweather, with the kid bouncing all over, and the father looking on. I would try not to read too much into it.

[paulat]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758229/posts

Already posted.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I don't have a clue as to what it means, but it looks innocent enough, IMHO.

[perfect stranger]

Well at least you waited until almost midnight to post this.

[FReepaholic]

It's been going on for several days. A different one each day. Here's a link to all of them:

http://www.google.com/doodle12.html

[capt. norm]

I'm surprised they didn't use penguins. That seems to be the environmentally/politically correct animal this year.

Penguin movies in the theaters, "March of the Penguins" on the Hallmark Channel.

* (Next year's sequel will be "April of the Penguins" and they'll keep adding until they get one for each month)

[BJungNan]

I thought it was to signify that Christmas had gotten to Australia and that they would change it at the hours wore on to other countries.

[garjog]

It could be mocking, but on the other hand it does show a mother and a father and a baby -- if the figures were human than Google would be accused of promoting religion. This could be the closest thing to a holy family that our politically correct world might accept.

Wonder what Muslims would do if Google put up kangaroos dressed up in burkas on Ramadan?

[SteveMcKing]

It is completely insulting. That was the intent, explicitly.

[Junior]

A bit thin-skinned, are we? If God thinks it's mocking, He'll do something about it. You needn't worry your little headache about it.

[onyx]

I suspect a 20 something leftist thinks it's cute.

[hole_n_one]

We do this every year, with every Holiday, and every year, with every Holiday, it turns out to be a big, fat to-do about nothing.

*

[teacherwoes]

"Google research has soon that kangaroos have nothing to do with global warming and they contribute greatly to the Democratic party. Do you want to pull my finger?"

[SamAdams76]

Maybe they are celebrating the South Park "Woodland Critters" episode.

[Perdogg]

I think we Christians need to sort of take a chill-pill when it comes to the birth of Christ and how others observe it.

Everyone knows that Christ wasn't born on December 25th. If the Catholic Church was really wanted to everyone to observe the birth the Christ, they should have set it for around the 1st the October when he was really born.

It's kind of hard to get non-believers to acknowledge the birth the Christ when we Christians cannot even do it on the right day.
There may be a purpose to obscure the date of the birth, maybe to make Easter more important because in the bible even the story of the Nativity contains hints about the crucification with the wisemen and their gifts.

[trumandogz]

Do you realize that neither Yahoo.com, FoxNews.com nor Free Republic acknowledge Christmas?