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Whatever Happened to Christmas
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| 12-22-2003
| F.R. Wilcox
Posted on 12/22/2003 1:53:10 PM PST by redangus
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posted on
12/22/2003 1:53:11 PM PST
by
redangus
To: redangus
Merry Christmas to you.
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posted on
12/22/2003 1:55:21 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(No words were harmed during the production of this tagline.)
To: redangus
What is it about Christmas that scares so many people? Every year at this time the papers and airways are filled with stories of groups and individuals going to court to either stop Christmas decorations from being put up or to demand that they be removed. Grinches come in many sizes and colors. Only the green ones managed to get some actual bad press.
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posted on
12/22/2003 1:57:06 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Leftist opinions may be free, but I still feel like I'm getting ripped off every time I receive one.)
To: redangus
What has happened is the spirit of the Anti-Christ. Thank the ACLU and people like Barry Lynn (Americans United for Separation of Church and State) and such. These people have gone almost unchallenged, while the church leaders have sat on their backsides. Parents have not put up a fight at their local school boards, and the common citizens have not spoken up at the ballot box against their local leaders and judges. That's what's happened to Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you all...
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:01:50 PM PST
by
TommyDale
To: Conspiracy Guy
EVERY AMERICAN COMMUNITY FACED WITH THIS FOOLISH 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS'/A.C.L.U. MADNESS AND BIGOTRY SHOULD DO THE FOLLOWING FOR 2004 (START PREPPING NOW TO GET IT ON THE BALLOT)Have a PUBLIC REFERENDUM in your community. Have them EVERYWHERE across the USA, everywhere, everywhere possible, simultaneously with the General Election of November 2004, State and Local. Democracy! OK, submit it to a democratic vote!
"Resolved, that the word "Christmas" shall be freely restored to publicly funded year-end holiday events or published year-end greetings, by organizations funded or otherwise under the umbrella of _____City (or ______Township) if the intent of the event is not to solely observe a non-Christmas event: Support or Oppose?"
Then, a) make the politicians go on the record Aye or Noe; and b) turn out the voters.
In probably 95% of American communities across the land, the vote will be overwhelming in SUPPORT of it. We can help revive CHRISTMAS next year, by replacing "Happy Holidays" with "Merry Christmas" as it was 10-15 years ago, (in addition, of course, this year to offering "Merry Christmas!" in love and courage, wherever we go during the Christmas season, on our jobs, in traffic, at the checkout counter, wherever and doing it in subsequent years).
There is NO REASON that this popular guerilla movement to defeat the liberals, atheists, crybabies and Scrooges CAN NOT SUCCEED in a nation where probably 90% of the People either still love Christmas or have no problem with it. Let us slap down the DICTATORSHIP of the EXTREME, HYPERSENSITIVE SMALL MINORITY over the will of the vast majority of Americans!!
Anybody want to join me?
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:04:26 PM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(NORTH KOREA is a DANGEROUS CANCER in late stages; still, we only meditate and take herbal medicines)
To: redangus
"What is it about Christmas that scares so many people?"Parse ...
The root to Christmas is Christ
Jesus, the Christ,
the Annointed and Savior,
Given to/for all men (people),
That we might live with God in heaven.
But Satan (Santa sideways, sorta'),Knows his final demise and desires all that pertains to God (Jesus) for himself.
Ergo,
Christ is offensive to anti-Christ(ians)
Christmas reminds man of the miracle birth and his need to be saved from Hell.
I heard the guest host on the Glenn Beck show refer to himself as the president of POOP ....
People Offended by Offended People with Christmas.
Merry CHRISTmas to all.
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:10:50 PM PST
by
knarf
(A place where anyone can learn anything ... especially that which promotes clear thinking.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
.....but, Jesus said this would happen... Let your light shine anyway !
Mark 13:13
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:11:35 PM PST
by
Neenah
("It's always something ! ")
To: AmericanInTokyo
Judging from what I have personally witnessed over the years and all I have been reading lately I'm very lucky in where I now live.
The towns host Christmas parades and Living Nativities are held in town squares. My daughter goes to public school and they recognized the feast of St. Nicklaus early in the month, they drew menorrahs and were taught to use a dreidl, Santa Claus came to see them and they had a Christmas party, not a holiday party.
All in all, I must say compared to other areas, I'm very lucky.
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:12:38 PM PST
by
Gabz
(Smoke gnatzies - small minds buzzing in your business - swat'em!!!)
To: redangus
One of my neighbors came over last week and said Feliz Navidad...I told him it was too cold for fleas...it had to be dry skin. It took him a minute, but he finally figured it out (fleasonthedog).
To: TommyDale
A good, fun tactic, to really throw a person for a loop--who looks liberal to you out in public, say at the checkout counter (without being mean or nasty as that should not be the point), is to say, after "Happy Holidays"
'''Well, as they say in England, "Happy Christmas",
or
(Japan) "Merri Kurisumasu!"
(Spanish) "Feliz Navidad!"
(France) "Joyeux Noel"
You can show them that Christmas IS "Diverse", it is ony their words, actions and our popular culture in the US these days which is being narrow minded, mean spirited, and anti-diverse/anti-international.
Again, this must all be done well rehearsed, then natural and with true love.
Maybe its true, as Dennis Prager said, we can start to change the little, bad things about America bit by bit, one by one, out there... You and me! Have fun shopping (what's left of it) or at work....And, Merry Christmas.
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:17:36 PM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(NORTH KOREA is a DANGEROUS CANCER in late stages; still, we only meditate and take herbal medicines)
To: redangus
We went wrong by allowing people with un-american and anti-religious attitudes the right to speak.When we gave in to the likes of "Mad"-elyn O'hare that was the first mistake.If the free speech rights of the majority can be denied then so can the free speech rights of the minority.THE ABILITY TO SUE TO FORCE PEOPLE TO DO YOUR BIDDING MUST BE STOPPED!People must refuse to do as they are told(taking down Christmas decorations,religious symbols,etc).
To: redangus
They aren't scared of Christmas. The acolytes of the Socialist Faith are in a religious war with Christianity, and Christmas is the most visible symbol of that religion, and has to be muzzled.
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:26:49 PM PST
by
expatpat
To: AmericanInTokyo
Locally we haven't become Christmasphobic yet. Your plan has much merit.
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:28:05 PM PST
by
Conspiracy Guy
(No words were harmed during the production of this tagline.)
To: redangus; All
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:32:13 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: AmericanInTokyo
There isn't a Japanese I know alive who says or would even entertain the idea of saying "Happy Holidays". That would come out something like "Yoi Saijitsu Wo". How weird sounding.
Nope! In this 80% Buddhist country, it is, has, and always will be:
"Merri Kurisumasu" (spoken) and "Merry Christmas" (written)
Essentially they don't have Kwanzaa and Chunukah to water down Christmas into "Happy Holidays". Everywhere it is "Merry Christmas".
How to you explain to the Japanese, who love Christmas and use the phrase freely, that they got from Christian missionaries in the 1800s and then American GIs from 1945, that it is no longer "Merri Kurisumasu"?
They must think we are all such idiots over in the US for surrendering such a beautiful holiday and holiday greeting, bit by bit, due to the complaints of an upset, hypersensitive and nasty 3% of us!
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:38:56 PM PST
by
AmericanInTokyo
(NORTH KOREA is a DANGEROUS CANCER in late stages; still, we only meditate and take herbal medicines)
To: redangus
You answered your initial question well in your last paragraph.
Might I add, however, that Kwanzah, Ramadan, Allah, Buddha, etc. do not cause the enemy to tremble. Any mention of the Lord Jesus Christ does. Thus, those whom the enemy influences are highly motivated through self-preservation to try their hardest to keep the name of Christ Jesus from being mentioned. (Fat chance! Bow now or bow later!)
Merry Christmas to all!
Ref: Eph 6:12 "Our battle is not against flesh and blood but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms."
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posted on
12/22/2003 2:39:46 PM PST
by
ironmaidenPR2717
(Time is what keeps things from happening all at once.)
To: AmericanInTokyo
Thanks for your posts, especially the information on Christmas in Japan.
As for me, I am on the verge of surrender. The America I grew up in (I'm in my 60's) no longer exists. As my wife and I say, we were lucky enough to grow up in the best of times (tremendous gains in technology--especially medical advances--alongside our country's deep religious tradition, among others) but now it appears that those who hate this country's religious traditions have the upper hand and are not going to let go.
It is obvious from developments we see erupt every December that this is the way it is going to be.
I'm too old to fight any fights to try to restore that which is quickly slipping away.
To: redangus
You can thank all the so called Christians that continue to vote for the democrats
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posted on
12/22/2003 3:37:50 PM PST
by
uncbob
To: redangus
Christmas is about redemption.
The need for redemption implies condemnation.
Lucifer wants us to believe that rejecting Christmas, and Christ, will somehow invalidate the condemnation.
Lucifer is a liar.
The reality is that humans who reject Christ will simply join Lucifer in darkness eternaly separated from Yahweh, Creator and Lord of the universe.
Misery wants company - and that, IMHO, is what has ~Always been happening to Christmas.
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posted on
12/22/2003 3:52:30 PM PST
by
VxH
To: INSENSITIVE GUY
We went wrong by allowing people with un-american and anti-religious attitudes the right to speak. *That* sounds far more unamerican than those whom you accuse.
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