Posted on 12/15/2006 1:52:38 PM PST by Ronald ReaganROCKS
The Liberals are stealing Christmas. They will deny it, but they are. Political Correctness dictates that people can't wish eachother "Merry Christmas" in public. Libs will tell you that they just don't want religious symbolism in public but people are allowed to "practice ANY religion or holliday they want." How do I do that? This is where Liberal thinking gets pretty abstract. Do I walk past people on the street and think "that guy just mentally wished me Merry Christmas?"
If I move to Africa, I definitely expect them to stop celebrating Kwanzaa because I'm there. Or how about in the middle of the Chinese New Year, in the middle of that enormous parade they have every year? If I travel there I'm going to say, "You know what guys? If you could just stop doing this in public, and keep it limited to your own homes, that would be great. I'm a Christian."
Oh yeah, if you are Jewish and you wish me "Happy Hanukkah," I'm calling the ACLU. Same with any Muslims who want me to be happy at Ramadan.
===================== This article from gopusa.com from 12/24/04
Forget the Grinch - It's Liberals Who Are Stealing Christmas By Jennifer King December 24, 2004
The Anti-Christian Liberal Union has struck again. In between their quest to homosexualize the Boy Scouts, the ACLU has taken up its' holiday cause celebe - removing any vestige of Jesus Christ from the celebration of His birthday. School boards and communities - plagued by ignorance and fearful of lawsuits - have expunged Christ from the most innocuous of events.
The principal of Lake Washington High School, in Kirkland, WA, has banned the production of Dicken's "Christmas Carol". The "Christmas Carol" is non pc throughout, with its talk of sin, redemption and the true meaning of Christmas, but it was Tiny Tim's prayer, "God Bless us, every one" that formally caused its expulsion. Washington is not alone. The mayor of Somerville, MA, issued an apology for sending out an invitation to a "Christmas" rather than "Holiday" party. The Wichita Eagle likewise ran a correction for referring to a "Christmas" Tree rather than a "Community" Tree at the Wichita Winterfest celebration. The city of Denver refused to allow a Christian church to have a float in the city's holiday parade, although the homosexual Indian support group and the Chinese lion "spirit chaser" dancers were welcome.
School districts from Florida to New York banned the singing of Christmas carols - one school even banned strictly instrumental numbers. Elementary school children in Oregon were not allowed to give out religiously themed Christmas cards. In Rochelle, MN, two girls were reprimanded for saying, "Merry Christmas" in a school play. Department stores like Macy's - which owes a good deal of material success to Christmas shoppers - have even abandoned the traditional "Merry Christmas" greeting in favor of the generic "Happy Holidays". In New York City, a menorah and star and crescent were erected, but a Nativity scene was rejected. Home Nativity scenes have been stolen, broken and vandalized across the country.
This problem is not limited to America. In Italy, the Pope is making a strident call for returning Christ to the celebration of Christmas. Nevertheless, an Italian school in Treviso replaced the Christmas story with that of Little Red Riding Hood, and Muslim-Italian activist Abdel Smith has agitated for the removal of crucifixes from public places. There, as here, Communist front groups are said to be supporting the removal of Christianity from the public square.
What possible threat could a man, long dead, pose to those who seek to expunge him from society? Yet, the European Union, in what is surely a Faustian bargain, decided against any mention of historical Christianity and its impact upon Europe when the participating nations signed their "Constitution" on October 29th, 2004. Separating Christianity from what used to be called Christendom surely takes a willful bit of artful deception and a blind eye to Europe's real problem, which is an unassimilated and sometimes hostile Muslim immigrant population whose birth rate vastly outpaces that of native Europeans.
Nevertheless, Christ strikes fear in the hearts of Communists, socialists and totalitarians because He stands in the way of the establishment of the liberal statist utopia - the tower of Babel on earth. Man's insolence has not changed throughout the ages and totalitarians throughout history have tried to expunge religion -especially Judaism and Christianity - so that they can assume the mantel of the divine. Christ reminds us that we are given our rights, including freedom, by our Creator, not by governments run by sinful men. Christ shows us that we are to have no king, save Him. He tells us that our knee should never bow in submission, except to Him. Dictators and despots have fallen, bested by this seminal truth and those who were willing to fight for it.
In America, thankfully, Christians are finally fighting back against the secularist tidal wave. Lawsuits, boycotts and campaigns have been instigated, and local Christians have mobilized. A woman in Florida successfully won a suit letting a Nativity scene be placed in a display which included a menorah. Supporters of the church float in Denver marched ahead of the parade, singing Christmas carols and passing out hot cocoa. Parents have petitioned intolerant school boards for inclusion. Many are winning.
In a country which is approximately 80% Christian and where approximately 77% of Americans believe in the Virgin Birth and the incarnation of Jesus Christ, it is high time that the majority quit letting the vocal minority dictate policy to them. It is time to assert the old vow, "No king save King Jesus". It is time to put the Christ back into Christmas, where He belongs. Merry Christmas, everyone.
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They won't stop until it's called Merry ___Mas day!
>>Ron Karenga aka Ron Everett,is a racist.
Yes, I will admit he was racist. I had to take a "multiculturalism" class in college, and he was one of the professors in it. Most of the time he would simply talk about how bad white people were, but nothing new. He was one fat dude though.
Show me an instance where a government body said "You can put that nativity there, but we ain't gonna have any stinking mennorhas or let the atheists put up a display" and I'll be with you. But the idea that government must pretend Christ wasn't born in order to avoid violating the First Amendment is just silly.
People who say there are jobs Americans won't do have never watched "Dirty Jobs."
I've read your paragraph of non sequitrs three times and the point remains as elusive as boiled okra. If you're replying to something I have said, please comment on that or just pass by. I'm not into following your straw rabbit down the hole.
Try this:
The presence of a religious display on government property means exactly diddly unless other religions are being excluded. You're the one employing the straw man by talking about government promotion of religious displays.
"The presence of a religious display on government property means exactly diddly unless other religions are being excluded."
You're an intelligent man, Silverback, but if you can't see that government sponsored religious displays don't violate the establishment clause, I can't help you.
Thanks, back at you. As I'm sure you've heard many times, the establishment clause is designed to prevent the government from forming a state church.
Take the folks in Madison, Wisconsin, whos surprisingly have gotten this right. They have displays from all comers in the Capitol, including a display from the Freedom From Religion Foundation declaring an atheist creed. How are they establishing a state relgion when the Christians have a display declaring their belief that the Messiah has come, the Jews have a display that celebrates Hanukkah (and implies that the baby the Christians laud was no Messiah) and the atheists are one the other side of the room with a sign that says there is no God, much less a Messiah? What is the government establishing there?
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