(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
In my opinion, it's best that Christians and Jews band together to protect our beliefs before the enemy has their way and destroys our freedom to celebrate either.
From reading the article you would never conclude that the overwhelming majority of people in this country are Christian.
Thomas Sowell, in his excellent Black Rednecks And White Liberals, made the following most excellent points:In all of history no one but Christians - not to put too fine a point on it, white Christians with rifles - has ever opposed the institution of slavery as a general proposition.
- slavery is a very ancient institution, and existed - nay, was taken for granted - all over the world, for millenia.
- although just about anyone opposed slavery imposed on himself or his own kin, for millenia no serious opposition was launched against the institution itself, in principle. That was true not only of midle Easterners and Asiatics and African, but peoples of the Americas and Europe - not only of Islamics and pagans but of Christians, over most of the history of Christianity.
- Christianity changed its attitude during the Enlightenment, and slavery was eliminated in Europe. The American South became the only place to develop a literature trying to justify slavery because the institution had never been under institutional attack anywhere else before.
To the extent that slavery has disappeared as a globally accepted institution, that is due to Europeans and (Unionist) Americans, especially the British (the latter having dominated 1/3 of the globe at the time, and having maintained a squadron of warships off the west coast of Africa for the sole purpose of stopping the slave trade). The British spent a lot of time and effort opposing slavery all over the world. Indeed, Lincoln promulgated the Emancipation Proclamation for the precise purpose of ending British diplomatic sympathy for the Confederacy. Precisely because of the danger of race war inherent in the persecution black had endured in the South, outright abolition was an extreme political position in America. But Lincoln did it because he knew that once the Civil War was officialy about slavery, the British government could no longer give any support to the South. Everyone else but Christians - notably, the muslims - thought those British Christians were crazy.
It takes a lot of selfrighteousness to take an attitude of moral superiority over white Christians as a class.
I am long past giving a crap what the Jews, Muslims, athiest and the ACLU think about saying Merry Christmas.
Well said goldstategop. A little tolerance is all that Christians ask...nothing more, nothing less.
My neice who is two years old, has a birthday coming and she told me that she wanted a "Hanukkah Mickey Mouse Stuffed Animal." She's not Jewish....she's a Catholic. Although she is not yet mature enough to know the difference between Christianity and the Jewish faith, she just appreciated that doll. It's comforting to know that both her parents are already teaching her tolerance and respect for other's.
Thank you for posting this article.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin is a good man!!
Bump.