Posted on 12/10/2008 3:52:30 PM PST by Sammy67
I have a better idea. Name your toilet Allah.
Don’t stand next to this @ss clown during a thunderstorm.
'Decorating the house, purchasing Christmas trees or having Christmas turkey meals are completely prohibited by Allah."
And I say, How can a freakin' ROCK forbid anything? Think about that next time you go run between a couple of mountains a couple times, toss some pebbles at a old tree stump, walk counter clockwise around what was once an old marker for a water hole, (later turned into crude "house" without a roof for a bunch of rock gods) and finally sticking your head in what looks like a giant vagina, and planting a smooch on ol' "allah".
Of course no Muslim will question your outrageous claims, because the ability to think rationally has been brainwashed/ sucked out of them by the cult of misery called Islam.
Lawyers on the dole? Wow, times sure are tough in Jolly Olde England.
Looks great! Wheres the little kids table?:-)
“Why the heck is this guy in England if he cant respect English traditions?”
You silly man; to overthrow English traditions and impose Sharia!
It should be called multitribalism, as they only promote the barbarism practiced before they found the lord.
I wonder when "culturama" festivals will start featuring nightly shows where the featured cultural barbarism of the evening does their "sacrifice a fair maiden to the moon god" ritual, to the applause of liberal spectators.
“Your boy lost’’. Pal, yours won and you and seen nuthin’ yet. That bat-eared Marxist git will be the last president America ever has ‘cuz we’re ALL toast, soon to be!
“Your boy lost’’. Pal, yours won and you and seen nuthin’ yet. That bat-eared Marxist git will be the last president America ever has ‘cuz we’re ALL toast, soon to be!
THIS must be why the Obamas don’t celebrate Christmas...
I don’t think I want to name the toilet. I call the dogs the muslims though.
Your not my pal and Obama was not my man. Unlike you I decided not to vote for a Democrat or Republican liberal.
I call BS! Show me any verse in the Koran that says anything about Christmas, Christmas trees, or "turkey meals". As most of these "mullahs" do, he is making crap up and declaring it as religious law. And the wild-eyed, faithful zealots lap it up.
Because he can collect L 25,000 a year plus convert idiots into being insane Muslim jihadi practioners and supporters.
Next question.
Nonsense.
As Christ wished to fulfill the law and to show His descent according to the flesh from Abraham. He, though not bound by the law, was circumcised on the eighth day (Luke 2:21), and received the sublime name expressive of His office, Jesus, i.e. Savior.
He was, as St. Paul says, "made under the law", i.e. He submitted to the Mosaic Dispensation, "that he might redeem them who were under the law: that we might receive the adoption of sons" (Galatians 4:4, 5).
"The Christ, in order to fulfill all justice, was required to endure this humiliation, and bear in His body the stigma of the sins which He had taken upon Himself" (Fouard, A Life of Jesus, tr., I, 54). The circumcision took place, not in the Temple, though painters sometimes so represent it, but in some private house, where the Holy Family had found a rather late hospitality.
The public ceremony in the synagogue, which is now the usage, was introduced later. Christmas was celebrated on 25 December, even in the early centuries, at least by the Western Church, whence the date was soon adopted in the East also. Saint Chrysostom credits the West with the tradition, and St. Augustine speaks of it as well and long established. Consequently the Circumcision fell on the first of January.
In the ages of paganism, however, the solemnization of the feast was almost impossible, on account of the orgies connected with the Saturnalian festivities, which were celebrated at the same time. Even in our own day the secular features of the opening of the New Year interfere with the religious observance of the Circumcision, and tend to make a mere holiday of that which should have the sacred character of a Holy Day.
St. Augustine points out the difference between the pagan and the Christian manner of celebrating the day: pagan feasting and excesses were to be expiated by Christian fasting and prayer (P.L., XXXVIII, 1024 sqq.; Serm. cxcvii, cxcviii).
The Feast of the Circumcision was kept at an early date in the Gallican Rite, as is clearly indicated in a Council of Tours (567), in which he Mass of the Circumcision is prescribed (Con. Tur., II., can. xvii in Labbe, V, 857).
The feast celebrated at Rome in the seventh century was not the Circumcision as such, but the octave of Christmas. The Gelasian Sacramentary gives the title "In Octabas Domini", and prohibits the faithful from idolatry and the profanities of the season (P.L., LXXIV, 1061).
The earliest Byzantine calendars (eighth and ninth centuries) give for the first of January both the Circumcision and the anniversary of St. Basil. The Feast of the Circumcision was observed in Spain before the death of St. Isidore (636), for the "Regula Monachorum", X, reads: "For it hath pleased the Fathers to appoint a holy season from the day of the Lord's birth to the day of His Circumcision" (P.L., LXXXIII, 880). It seems, therefore, that the octave was more prominent in the early centuries, and the Circumcision later.
It is to be noted also that the Blessed Virgin Mary was not forgotten in the festivities of the holy season, and the Mass in her honour was sometimes said on this day. Today, also, while in both Missal and Breviary the feast bears the title "In Circumcisione Domini et Octav Nativitatis", the prayers have special reference to the Blessed Virgin, and in the Office, the responses and antiphons set forth her privileges and extol her wonderful prerogatives. The psalms for Vespers are those appointed for her feasts, and the antiphons and hymn of Lauds keep her constantly in view.
As paganism passed away the religious festivities of the Circumcision became more conspicuous and solemn; yet, even in the tenth century, Atto, Bishop of Vercelli, rebuked those who profaned the holy season by pagan dances, songs, and the lighting of lamps (P.L. CXXXIV, 43).
Christmes was NEVER "introduced as a substitute for pagan celebrations of the winter solstice", or any other pagan celebrations.
I wish they would stay in their own countries myself. I don't plan to adapt to their bs & I certainly think if they can not adapt to the customs of our country they need to not come or leave asap.
You are a crocodile and they are 54% Catholic. They are also known as the Obamalics.
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