[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[No_Outcome_But_Victory]

a throwback to the nineteenth-century Anglo-American idea of "muscular Christianity."

An idea whose time has returned...

[USF]

Peoples Republic of Denver PING

[Alex Murphy]

he added that "he would review the holiday programs next year to make sure Christians are not perceived to be slighted"

Not that they care about actually slighting us - just that they don't want us to have that perception....

[Savage Beast]

Now they must vote the mayor out of office.

[Savage Beast]

...and organize a Christian Christmas Parade.

[Judith Anne]

Great article. Great post, thanks.

[pigsmith]

ping

[Future Snake Eater]

a throwback to the nineteenth-century Anglo-American idea of "muscular Christianity."

What's that supposed to mean? Today's Christians are all 98-lb weaklings?

[stands2reason]

I suppose muscular Christians are better than flabby Christians...

[TalBlack]

"The Faith Bible Chapel, which seems to have had a large part in sparking the reaction, is led by a former Marine who served in Vietnam as a helicopter gunner,..."

It's called 'Leadership', something in short supply in this nation today. It is the source of the "spark" refered to in the article.

[yooper]

Do you ever wonder why PC kooks like the Downtown Denver Partnership are afraid of churches? I can't figure it out. They are more afraid of churches than they are of the KKK or the American Nazi Party. Why?

[maxwellp]

".... a former Marine..." Thank you Marine - God Bless You and Merry Christmas.

[macbee]

Obviously, much work remains for "muscular Christians"...

Especially on lats, traps, and delts. I haven't yet hit on the right circuit and sets to get them in top shape.

[JockoManning]

Good job SH73!

[EdReform]

It's okay to say Merry Christmas:

"Merry Christmas. Believe It. Say It. Wear it!"

[Flash Bazbeaux]

The December 4 Post story noted that local resident "Steve Schweitzberger carried a basket with a tiny baby Jesus doll inside that had a paper teardrop falling from its eye. The baby came with a sign that read, 'It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to.'"

LOL. What's he going to do for a follow up? "Now It's Satan's Turn to Cry"?

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

How "wall of separation" became perverted and has been misused

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Jefferson’s figurative language has not produced the practical solutions to real world controversies that its apparent clarity and directness lead its proponents to expect. Indeed, this wall has done what walls frequently do – it has obstructed the view. It has obfuscated our understanding of constitutional principles governing church-state relationships.

The repetitious, uncritical use of felicitous phrases, Justice Felix Frankfurter observed, bedevils the law: “A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas.” Figures of speech designed to simply and liberate thought end often by trivializing or enslaving it. Therefore, as Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo counseled, “[m]etaphors in law are to be narrowly watched.” This is advice that courts would do well to heed.


snipped......full piece @

http://www.townhall.com/phillysoc/dreisbachsep.htm

[F.J. Mitchell]

Anybody who thinks Christians are wimps,need only to ask any lion, or the heir's of Romans who put their money on the lions.

You will find them (the Romans) begging on the streets of Rome.

[Talking_Mouse]

Even the Illinois American Civil Liberties Union agrees, to the point of recently saying that it's all right for public schools to have overtly Christian Christmas carols in school activities, according to an article in yesterday's Chicago Tribune. "Christmas songs about Christ are fine at this time of year, [IACLU] spokesman Ed Yohnka said," the Tribune story noted. That sounds quite different from the position typically staked out by the national American Civil Liberties Union.

God bless us, one and all.