Posted on 02/22/2005 9:39:21 PM PST by Coleus
Christmas is over.
BIG BUMP!!!
Great post!
....and bookmarked.
Hit the destroyers where they feel it most. Their free ride is fast coming to an end.
But the culture war isn't. Fight or get out of the way.
Celebrating the birth of our savior should never be over,
though I know the holiday has passed.
I do appreciate this thread.
If businesses can't wish me a Merry Christmas, then they'll break into the black without a dime from me.
What is truly hypocritical is that they won't wish me a Merry Christmas, but they'll sure have those After Christmas Sales.
Boycott them.
Most Christians hold C. S. Lewis in high regard.
In his book, "The Joyful Christian," he regards our Christmas traditions to run quite contrary to what Christ would have wanted and what the Bible would otherwise suggest.
Of course, his book was written more than 50 years ago when Christians were different.
Now, we Christians aspire to other standards, like a per capita divorce rate higher than either the US national average or that of Atheists.
What a wonderful world it can be.
"...but they'll sure have those After Christmas Sales."
So true. I've alread begun to exercise my right to not spend where I don't want to spend.
From savemerrychristmas.org/:
Click here to see what you can do in your own area.
List of Federated Department Store chains:
Bloomingdale's
Lazarus-Macy's
Bon-Macy's
Macy's East
Burdine's-Macy's
Macy' West
Goldsmith's-Macy's
Rich's Macy's
Christmas is over. >>
Everyday is Christmas and Easter...
I boycott them year round.
A lot of what you have said is very true, but it is important to take into account that these statistics also include those individuals who claim to be evanglical Christian's, but truly are not.
Though it's quite unfortunate that commericalism rules the day during a time when we should be recognizing what is truly important, I do enjoy the Christmas season. And our family celebrates it in such a way that we honor Christ, not the materials.
That idiot Springer fell for the old "constitutional separation of church and state" lie? Har!!! Good. Then he and his school district got what they deserved.
For over forty years the athiests of the ACLU and their Democrat enablers have leaned on a throw-away line by Hugo Black in a June 1962 decision (ENGEL v. VITALE) where Black used the phrase "constitutional wall of separation between Church and State". (Thomas Jefferson used a similar phrase in a different two hundreds earlier, but it was the use of the phrase by Ku Klux Klanner Black in 1962 that has been twisted and distorted recently by the ACLU.)
Here is the most interesting paragraph from (ENGEL v. VITALE) (my emphasis):
"The petitioners contend among other things that the state laws requiring or permitting use of the Regents' prayer must be struck down as a violation of the Establishment Clause because that prayer was composed by governmental officials as a part of a governmental program to further religious beliefs. For this reason, petitioners argue, the State's use of the Regents' prayer in its public school system breaches the constitutional wall of separation between Church and State. We agree with that contention since we think that the constitutional prohibition against laws respecting an establishment of religion must at least mean that in this country it is no part of the business of government to compose official prayers for any group of the American people to recite as a part of a religious program carried on by government."
See how "government.... composing official prayers" has been perverted over the past 40 years by the athiests of the ACLU and the Democrat Party into today's sick attack on the free expression of religious values and traditional American values in general?
Kids are being sent home from school for wearing crucifixes; honors graduates are being told they are not allowed to refer to their religion in their graduation speeches; teachers are warned to tread carefully when they get to that part of the Declaration of Independence where it refers to "our Creator"; traditional Christmas concerts are gone from schools; and hundred-year-old monuments with reference to the Ten Commandments are being removed in little towns in the Midwest. Etc.
It's sick.
The scumbags of the ACLU are domestic enemies of the United States who must be confronted and defeated. It is VERY ENCOURAGING to read (above) that people are finally getting fed up and are fighting back.
Thanks for the post, Coleus.
Yes, this year was the final straw. It should have been the final straw about 10 years ago.
Yeah, and higher than homosexuals, too.
Fervent prayer, and home education.
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