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2007 Christmas Stamps (Vanity)
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| 10-25-2007
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Posted on 10/25/2007 11:48:44 AM PDT by lilylangtree
The Postal Service announced the new 2007 Christmas stamp "The Madonna of the Carnation" for Catholics. Also, the USPS came out with the Christmas stamps commemorating the Muslim holiday of EID (Sep 28). Plus, USPS will release stamps recognizing Kwanzaa and Hanukkah (Oct 26). And for those in the "none of the above" category, the Holiday Knits stamps series will be available as of today.
I commend the Postal Service for its political correctness. However, as a Christian that believes in Jesus Christ, where is the Christmas stamp to represent the Christian belief?
Has our country moved so far away from its Christian foundation that we must now ask "where is our representation"?
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To: FreePaul
It also looks like a thirty-nine cent stamp. When are we supposed to use this? When you don't care if and when your mail arrives. :-)
To: verity
To: Elsiejay
Do you know what the English translation is for the Latin word coredemptrix?
To: Elsiejay
I happily use Madonna and Child stamps because they're pretty. Also, Mary is one of the people prophesied in the Bible ~ and if the Catholics think she's a Co-redemptrix, that's between them and their crowd.
I'd go for a John the Baptist stamp for that matter. He's also prophesied.
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:14:32 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: AppyPappy
I wont use a stamp with Jesus on it unless he looks like a hippie. Don't forget the "Buddy Christ"!
To: xjcsa
Correction...the Madonna stamp is Madonna and child - this seems to reflect a bit of a Catholic perspective, How is that a "Catholic perspective" as opposed to a Christian perspective? What would be a Christian perspective? Santa Claus?
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:15:35 PM PDT
by
It's me
To: AppyPappy
"Arent Catholics considered Christian?" We'd better be - WE started Christianity!
To: muawiyah
We had that problem with the Roosevelt stamps. Post offices all over the country would be down to their last stock on hand and it'd be Roosevelt stamps the locals wouldn't touch because, as they said "They'd not kiss Roosevelt's a**". I think I would be that way with a XXX-42 stamp (or even worse a PIAPS-44 stamp).
On the other hand I still have a few Reagan stamps that I can't bear to use because then I wouldn't have them anymore.
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:15:59 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
To: Bluegrass Conservative
He was a convicted criminal sentenced to the death penalty. Whether he was fairly convicted or not is a different matter. No, it's the heart of the matter. If He earned death, then He wasn't the unblemished, sacrificial Lamb of God. Jesus was not a criminal... not even by the standards of the day... and your point, albeit a humorous take, is nonsense.
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:15:59 PM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Duncan Hunter 08--You want to elect a conservative? Then support a conservative!)
To: lilylangtree
Why would the USPS put out a stamp with the Madonna and a flower—a carnation yet?
I could see the Madonna of the INCARNATION. That makes plenty of sense. But then I’m just a Papist.
“And the Word was made Flesh and dwelt among us....”
ET VERBUM CARO FACTUM EST, et habitavit in nobis...
Frank
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:18:09 PM PDT
by
Frank Sheed
(Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
To: Bluegrass Conservative
While I do disagree with them, many evangelicals do not consider Catholics, Mormons, Jehovahs Witnesses, etc. to be Christians.That's their problem.
Do they consider Jesus to be Mary's mother? Because a picture of the two seems rather appropriate for Christmas.
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:18:14 PM PDT
by
highball
("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
To: LibertarianLiz
All REAL EVANGELICALS consider Catholics to be Christian.
Like that correction?
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:18:14 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: Bluegrass Conservative
Whether he was fairly convicted or not is a different matter.With all deference to you, that is a huge, huge point. In fact, the whole of Christianity pivots on this point, for if He was rightly convicted He was guilty of a crime and thus could not be the Christ.
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:18:17 PM PDT
by
Obadiah
To: lilylangtree
"The Madonna of the Carnation" for Catholics.Please correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the Madonna the Virgin Mother and Child. So what's the problem?
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:18:44 PM PDT
by
Tanniker Smith
(When the dog bites, when the bee stings, when you're feeling bad -- Bush's fault)
To: pgyanke
Jesus was not a criminal... not even by the standards of the day... and your point, albeit a humorous take, is nonsense. I'm not really trying to be humorous. I'm sure if you could find the records of the day, Jesus would be listed as a convicted and executed criminal.
Do I think he had sinned? No. Do I think he deserved to be executed? No. But that doesn't take away from the fact that he was a convicted criminal.
I'm sure he was not the first nor the last innocent person to be convicted and executed.
To: Bluegrass Conservative
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:19:46 PM PDT
by
lilylangtree
(Veni, Vidi, Vici)
To: verity; SouthTexas
Hey, 3 seconds apart. Texas puts out some great minds!
To: verity; SouthTexas
Hey, 3 seconds apart. Texas puts out some great minds!
To: Elsiejay
I guess you’re saved then...
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posted on
10/25/2007 12:20:12 PM PDT
by
Frank Sheed
(Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)
To: Bluegrass Conservative
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