Posted on 12/21/2004 8:36:57 PM PST by churchillbuff
I'll look for it tomorrow, it's here somewhere in all my papers.
Take a look at a cartoon in this week's Village Voice that shows the people in the Nativity scene as little vibrators.
I'm really beginning to hate people that hate Christmas.
Bingo. Ping.
Go Bill go!
When are we going to stand up and stop this crap from happening. We sit back and allow the God haters to run things.
It's good for business, there's no doubt about that. But the events are real, and his business is a worthy one. He acts as a canary in a coal mine and as a Catholic, cultural Rambo with brains. We need a thousand more like him.
The left is right about one thing. Silence is consent. And Americans have demonstrated the fact that they are easily cowed. So a strident opposition is crucial to fighting leftist propaganda.
Well, there seems to be changes on the horizon. People are fighting back regarding the Nativity Scenes and music. That's all it takes. Our voices to be as big and loud as the opposition. They are NOT the only ones with rights. We ALL have rights. The right to not say God in a sentence...the right to look at a Nativity Scene but don't care about it cause it doesn't hurt anyone, the right to not say the pledge...they have ALL THOSE RIGHTS but...they aren't satisfied...they want to take it away from us. Nope. No way, no how. Not gonna happen. The people have awakened. You know....like the sleeping Giant line in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora after the Japanesed bombed Pearl Harbor. Faith and patience...both strong attributes.
Well, there seems to be changes on the horizon. People are fighting back regarding the Nativity Scenes and music. That's all it takes. Our voices to be as big and loud as the opposition. They are NOT the only ones with rights. We ALL have rights. The right to not say God in a sentence...the right to look at a Nativity Scene but don't care about it cause it doesn't hurt anyone, the right to not say the pledge...they have ALL THOSE RIGHTS but...they aren't satisfied...they want to take it away from us. Nope. No way, no how. Not gonna happen. The people have awakened. You know....like the sleeping Giant line in the movie Tora, Tora, Tora after the Japanesed bombed Pearl Harbor. Faith and patience...both strong attributes.
So what? If someone doesn't want to celebrate Christmas, then don't.
Meanwhile....
Leave the rest of us alone. We're trying to have a fun.
Not necessarily:
Jeremiah 10:2-4: Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
And you Donohue bashers don't get it: He's exposing to the light all the anti-Christian nonsense, especially the double-standards, that exist in the culture. Good for him, and good for us Christians. As Aquinasfan said, if only we had a bunch more like Donohue, we'd be doing okay. May God send us a hundred more like him!
Catholic League bump. Catholic Freepers should go to the website and join today.
Yes. I read it.
(If I had posted my first thoughts I might have been banned)
I work for MCI in tech support, I talk to large corporate customers all day. There is no company policy against it but most of my co-workers are afraid to say Merry Christmas to anyone. Except of course for me. I have been making sure to say it partially because it is what I beleive and partially just to see if I can piss someone off. The company does not offially refer to Christmas(it's The Holidays) just so they can be inclusive. Makes me sick!
Thank you for the scripture. I gather from your post you are pointing out that there are Christians who do not exactly relish Christmas. I do not think this is where the left is coming from. I believe the left attacks Christmas because it (often without realizing it) hates Christ and Christians.
I understand the origins of "Christmas" and in all honesty I would have no problem with the holiday being dropped. It is not the birth of the Lord and I am not totally comfortable with us keeping a pagan holiday and just adjusting it to suit us.
I also have a little bit of trouble with the Sabbath being changed to Sunday. I don't understand why this came about.
Agreed. The leftist jihad against Christmas trees must be resisted even by those who aren't too keen on Christmas trees. I'd defend a creche more enthusiastically though.
BTW, that scripture probably refers to carved idols, not actual green trees -- and, in context, there's an implication of worship, which we certainly don't do. Nevertheless it's worth a chuckle or two around the holidays.
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