Posted on 12/25/2005 10:37:22 AM PST by Alouette
Good on ya to keep it up.
Don't let the Viking kitties have it until we have played with it some more.
While I sympathize with this poster's feelings of exclusion, I do not in the slightest feel his reaction was justified.
He should simply have told the prinicple that he was not Christian and he felt it inappropriate for his child to participate in a program which he viewed as Christian oriented. An understandible reaction.
But what this individual should think about is
1) What would have happened to a non-Jewish student in a similar situation in Israel?
2) Despite all the recent rhetoric to the contrary, nobody in their right minds for the past 300 years would have viewed the concept of America as "Christian" nation as in any way odd or reprehensible.
Most recently, most Christians refer to us as a Judaeo-Christian nation and to our Judaeo-Christian background - a truism in that Christianity, like it or not, started out as a Jewish sect and is based on the Old Testament as much as the new.
So, I would have to disagree with this individual and wish him a Happy Hannukah, but respectfully direct him to respect OUR traditions or return to from whence he came.
LOL, you're one of the good ones. I wish people said that more often.
Since the "talkback" was heavily FReeped, some FReeper's comments may have been included in this selection.
Doing a rather poor job of instilling their faith in the kids, too.
Oh, where, where, where is thy tolerance, O' "diversity NAZI" Liberal?
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________"Some human beings will never understand. I will respond to him."
"Listen up, Mr. Hanky.
As others could tell you, I am one of the jewiest Jews on Free Republic.
I learned to sing Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht and O Tannenbaum on my nanny's knees, and my nanny was echts Deutsche (German Christian who fled Hitler in the 1930's)
Guess what? I DIDN'T DIE and I DIDN'T LOSE MY JUDAISM over these songs. When I was a teenager I belonged to a "folk singing group" and we had gigs in hospitals and old age homes where we sang Christmas carols.
This liberal whiney-pants has screwed her kids up so bad not only by getting a reputation as "The Gritch (that's a combo of "grinch" and "beyotch") Who Stole Christmas" but she has also transgressed the original GOLDEN RULE as taught by Hillel: Do not do to others what would be hateful if done to you.
Now, run along and play with the chunk of coal that Santa left in your panty hose." AMEN!!!! Thank you "Alouette"
If she went to India would she get bent out of shape over all the Hindu hoopla in their schools?
If this person is the same Theresa R. Farrisi that comes up on Google, she's a writer (book on diapers),music teacher AND a homeschooler.
Why would a homeschool mom substitute in the EVIL public schools? Sounds to me like she had an agenda. hmmmmm
I certainly think the school could have made an amicable accommodation had they been asked (like send the kids to the library while the music class was going on with the Christmas carols), but these yokels look like they never asked, they just let it come at them like a freight train without budging then complain when they get squished. What did they expect in redneck gentile America, the Hatikvah? I am a Christian by conviction and I don't believe in Christians forcing anybody against their will in proclaiming the gospel whether it be by Christmas carols or anything else. Only God Himself can force that issue on somebody through conviction of soul. But these people had reasonable choices they didn't take.
The pageant was not even held during school hours. It was a special activity which was entirely voluntary. They could have opted out with no problem at all but Mommy Dearest wanted her little darlings to be in the glee club.
The Jews were sinners in the same sense that all people are sinners. God did it this way, by having Himself born as a Jew among people that He had a very special and unique covenantal relationship with, in order to paint in the huge neon letters of the Cross just how horrible the sin of humanity was. By the way, it wasn't the rejection of the Cross that has brought tragedy upon the Jews -- it was the sin of Adam, living in them all just like it lives in all humanity.
Oh I see. She wanted glee for them, she just didn't want THAT kind of glee.
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