Posted on 12/10/2004 6:22:48 AM PST by JohnHuang2
What the left really hates is a God that tells them that they themselves aren't little Gods that can do whatever they want.
Regardless, it doesn't change reality. Jesus is coming! And although the armies of the world will gather in the Valley of Megiddo to stop Him, they will fail.
Two i,portant things that man nust realize and the sooner he does, the better:
1. Their is a God !
2. It is not him (Man)!
I wonder if in that New Jersey school, the band would have the guts to hold a silent Christmas concert:announce that they are complying with the school board directive, know how long each song should take, then sit there for the three minutes or so for the rendition, the director turns and bow to the audience[who, if they are cool at all, will applaud] at the completion of the piece, then "start" the next one.
I know...too grand a statement to make. But it would be funny.
They have to hate Him -- He's not very fond of abortion.
We celebrate the birth of Christ by exchanging gifts in reflection of what the wise men did. If they take Christ out of the "holiday" season, I say we eliminate the GIFTS.
Then businesses will be clamoring to remind us we need to honor the Christ Child.
Remember that Target is owned by Dayton-Hudson..Dayton as in Senator Mark Dayton(D) of Minnesota and the closed office.
Christians have made Christmas very attractive to non-Christians and secularists from the standpoint of the vacation days off, the presents, the parties, the bonuses, the family get-togethers. Now Christians are caught in a web of their own making. The non-Christians and secularists love all the Christmas amenities except those that are religious related.
What would happen if Christians eschewed all the non-religious Christmas symbols, bought no gifts for each other and instead donated all the $$$ they would have spent on gifts to charities?
Retailers would suffer, no doubt, and when the blame for that started to be placed, the finger can be turned at all those who sought to take Christ out of Christmas. What they accomplished, we could reply, is that they forced us to examine what Christmas is REALLY all about.
Do Christians have the courage to do that?
Would have to be an organized campaign - cause and effect, and names on a list. These people, you see, will not buy anything at Macy's or Mervyn's this year. They will donate to the Boy Scouts and Salvation Army instead. It would have to be that organized for big-boxers to notice. Worse yet, you took your trade to the remaining proprietary resellers, avoiding the big box. I, personally, would still be reluctant to boycott Costco. They have quite a good stock.
Do not include Menards, Home Depot and Sam's Club or Wal Mart in your "Big Box" boycott they all have their heart in the right spot.
The left is very afraid there is a g-d.
This sounds like a "composition" by "classical" composer John Cage - 4'33" LOL! The entire orchestra remains silent. The "composition" consists of SILENCE - and the noises made by the audience as they anticipate, then grow impatient, angry, anxious, waiting for the damned orchestra to start playing! LOL! It's so - how shall we say it - "je ne sais quois" and "avant garde"!!!
Silence. Too bad these leftie loons don't practice it, but demand it of those who disagree with them. They are the consummate, gutter, lumpenproletariat ANTI-culturalists!
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Some of us have. For 5 years now our family does not buy gifts no one really needs anyway. We put all that saved money into family vacations.
"...These areas have effectively become the most "God absent" places on Earth..."
And beyond. When Apollo 8 went on man's first flight to the moon, the crew read the first passages from Genisis. Before they left, they were asked to make an important and memorable comment from lunar orbit. Frank Borman went to a friend and he suggested the reading. It took him "10 seconds" to agree. He then asked Jim Lovell and Bill Anders about it and they agreed. After their return, the Godless ACLU slapped them and NASA with a lawsuit over the telecast. Borman said, that in effect, the ACLU could go to hell. They would have read it again under similar conditions. The reading is still one of the most memorable events in all of human spaceflight history. BTW, the lawsuit went nowhere.
Yes, I have called them "God Haters" for a long time now.
We win in the end.
bttt
way2go, JH - keep 'em rolling...
Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.
If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.
Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom scene.
The law is specific, the law is precise.
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.
For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.
We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks.
They've outlawed guns, but FIRST the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.
We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's "inappropriate" to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such "judgments" do not belong.
We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.
It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Amen
Yes, we do. Isn't it nice to know the winner of the game before it's over? Now, all that's left is for people to decide which team they're on.
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