Banning Christmas - Ever Meet a Happy Atheist?

The Washington Dispatch ^ | 12/5/03 | Steve Yuhas

[narses]

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[EagleMamaMT]

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[JLAGRAYFOX]

Too bad you left out the biggest group of Christian/Jew haters, the secular entire Democrat, traitor/treason Party (with one exception, if you are a Muslim terrorist, you can worship, murder, slaughter babies and Americans whenever you want! That is just peachy with the America hating Democrats!).

[blanknoone]

I for one think it is pretty rediculous to lump atheists together as a group. There are extremists. It doesn't make all atheists extremists the same way that all Christians cannot be painted with the brush of David Duke.

[Possenti]

Many municipalities have outlawed the presence of a baby Jesus in a manger outside city hall.

Perhaps if the Manger scene were splattered with elephant dung, soaked in urine, and the Holy Family and Wisemen were all nude, it would be acceptable?

Heck - even the NEA art critics would support it.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I also think the ACLU finds the Christmas message offensive because it is a story about the most powerful forces in the world, life, love and forgiveness.

[SamAdams76]

Good points made in the article about Christmas trees and such not even being religious in nature. But so what if they were? I am so into Christmas displays that I go out walking at night in the frigid cold (and snow) to see the displays of my neighbors. Fortunately my town has not succumbed to the political correctness Nazis - the town center is still lit up and decorated every December.

[Orangedog]

Ever Meet a Happy Atheist?

I don't know about that, but a lot of people have a hard time believing that there is a God after meeting my ex wife.

[OldPossum]

Many years ago at this time of year, when you went into a department store there were banners proclaiming "Merry Christmas"; today, they invariably proclaim "Happy Holiday." Now you tell me that this isn't being driven by the PC people.

Also, sales personnel are, I am sure, instructed to wish you a "Happy Holiday," to which I reply "And a Merry Christmas to you, too." Now, darn it, some of those folks may not be Christians or even religious, but I resent Christmas being hijacked into some amorphous holiday with no specificity (sorry about those 50-cent words).

[Raymond Hendrix]

There are many atheists who really don't mind Christmas and enter into the occassion without being offended. But the fanatics among them too often get all the attention. Tolerance is not a dirty word. What ever happened to "live and let live"?

The Blind Atheist

[Tall_Texan]

If the separation of church and state is as absolute as the ACLU and their ilk insist then city, state and federal employees ought to be FORCED to work Christmas and Thanksgiving as if it is any other work day. As taxpayers, they should be demanding it.

If the trial ever comes, I hope it goes before the 9th Circus on it's way to the Supreme Court and then we can see just how nasty a knot the Supremes can tie themselves into trying to justify a federal holiday for Thanksgiving (if you're an atheist, to whom are you giving thanks and why should you get a paid day off on our tax dollars to do it?) and Christmas (read the label - this ain't about Santy Clause).

If we take the ACLU and the separation folks to their logical conclusion, this is where it ends and it speaks volumes that they aren't suing to steal Christmas and Thanksgiving from government workers because they know it would lead to their lynchings in the public square.

[Kenny Bunk]

Celebrating Christmas was illegal in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, When Congregationalism was disestablished as the state's official religion, celebration was again barely tolerated, but not encouraged. The bay state bastards wouldn't even release Maine for statehood until 1820, so Unitarians and Baptists could breathe easier.

[narses]

The issue is control. The left wing jack booted thugs HATE freedom.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Thumbs Up Award!

[southernnorthcarolina]

I think what we have here is a headline, not written by the author but by someone in the typesetting department, which misrepresents the article.

The headline "Ever Meet a Happy Atheist?" go my attention, because I do know happy atheists. And the article quite reasonably points out that there are many non-Christians who have no objection whatever to the celebration of Christmas, including religious symbols. It's the militant atheists, together with such organizations as the ACLU and Americans United (both of which no doubt have some atheist members, but also members of many religions including Christianity [though it's a curious form of Christianity which argues against any public celebration of faith]), who are the villains in this case.

[Kirkwood]

Okay, so what's the story on the Jesus statue? Is that a photoshop creation or does it really exist, and if so, where?

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Really exists. Do a google search of "buddy christ".

[elfman2]

”Ever Meet a Happy Atheist? ”

Ever meet a happy person who posts unprovoked disparaging generalizations?

[elfman2]

” And the article quite reasonably points out that there are many non-Christians who have no objection whatever to the celebration of Christmas, including religious symbols. It's the militant atheists… ”

Too bad. Most atheist will never read it, just figuring the headline’s representative of the article.