Posted on 12/18/2005 7:51:03 PM PST by nickcarraway
At a Christmas tree lighting ceremony recently in Manhasset, N.Y., a crowd of 200 gasped at the intemperate words uttered by a public official who was angry at a priest for an invocation the official considered too religious.
In Huntington in nearby Suffolk County, people are still fuming about the lawsuit filed last week to remove the crèche and the menorah displayed on the village green.
In Florida, rather than a complaint about too much religion, conservative Christian lawyers brought suits recently against two towns whose holiday displays on public property the lawyers considered too secular.
The suits demanded that Nativity scenes be placed there, and they were.
If nothing quite says holiday spirit to you like family tension and the perennial rehashing of old scores, then this might be your kind of holiday season.
With a new aggressiveness, some conservative Christian groups have declared war this year against what they see as an attack of secularization on Christmas, using boycotts and lawsuits to invoke the baby Jesus and the words "Merry Christmas" with an unusual fervor.
At the same time, members of other religious groups and civil libertarians have mounted a resistance to what they see as a creeping imposition of religion on public and commercial places, in a few cases filing suits of their own.
But in the vast middle - in that central core of the population where people shop and the Chipmunks sing, and contradictory notions live in peace, and the Festival of Lights shares deep and undisputed psychic space with the glittering Christmas tree - there is a sense of impending loss.
If the bellicose atmosphere of national politics can infect even this season of childhood and enchantment, as this thinking goes, we are all in some kind of big trouble.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What utter biased rot. If the Liberals hadn't tried to bully Christmas out of the public square, we wouldn't have to fight them.
Once again, the Leftists and their sympathizers ignore the fact that their patently anti-American, anti-Christian actions caused this conflict. And no, we should never assent to their secularizing the holiday of the birth of Christ.
I say it's about damned time those idiots be made to practice some of the "tolerance" that they profess to possess in abundance.
You took the words out of my mouth. They sound like the schoolyard bully who hits you in the eye without warning and then starts blubbering and whining and runs to the teacher the minute you hit him back.
Reading various newspaper articles and advertisments, the unwillingness to use "Christmas" was jarring. It almost as though it wa a dirty word.
Merry Christmas to all of you from Mexico.
merry Christmas!
"Aggressiveness" , eh? When atheists and ACLU 'ers file lawsuits, is it EVER described in terms like "aggressiveness"?? No bias here, folks!!/s
Translation: If you right wing nut cases and religious wackos will just stop resisting and let we NORMAL PEOPLE (translation within a translation: = Leftist wackos) run things, then everything will be fine.
Agreed, and it's great we finally started confronting those wackos, Many were mistaken in bending over backwards in the beginning (in the name of political correctness), give 'em an inch, they'll take a yard and then they want to change the culture? Good to say at last, "we will not let that happen"!
And a very Merry Christmas to You & Yours from Taiwan.
...ATheism is a religion...
We had our big family Christmas party today. My daughter's new mother in law pointedly said "Happy Holidays" even though IT WAS A CHRISTMAS PARTY and everyone was telling each other Merry Christmas. We all just ignored it and hugged her and said, "Merry Christmas."
I love how Christmas Day is referred to as 'the Holiday' in business. I just merrily say the "C" word.
" What utter biased rot. If the Liberals hadn't tried to bully Christmas out of the public square, we wouldn't have to fight them.
Once again, the Leftists and their sympathizers ignore the fact that their patently anti-American, anti-Christian actions caused this conflict. And no, we should never assent to their secularizing the holiday of the birth of Christ.
I say it's about damned time those idiots be made to practice some of the "tolerance" that they profess to possess in abundance."
Dittos
All of this would be a moot point if only the major Christian denominations would agree to move the celebration of Jesus' birth to the time of year when "shepherds watch their flocks by night" in the Holy Land. Then the secularists could have their "Hollyday" with Frosty and Rudolf and all the other mythical creatures (and all the commercialized gift-giving one can stand), and Christians could celebrate a "holy day"/holiday.
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