Atheist Group Backs Parents Upset School Wants To Take Kids To See ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’

CBS Atlanta ^ | November 20, 2012 | Unknown

[Las Vegas Ron]

Full title: Atheist Group Backs Parents Who Are Upset School Wants To Take Kids To See ‘Charlie Brown Christmas’ At Church

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (CBS Atlanta) — Charlie Brown has been caught in the crossfire of the “war on Christmas” mantra.

KARK-TV reports that some parents were upset that Terry Elementary School in Little Rock wanted to take children to go see a play of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at a local church.

[dfwgator]

Here You Go

It’s Jihad Farley Towne
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT6ayqjmrQ0

[thecodont]

Would that we could again have a country in which such a cartoon could be broadcast again on a major network, in prime time, and there wouldn’t be an uproar over it.

[Las Vegas Ron]

You know nothing about everything, including the founding of this Country,

Go bad to the KOS and DU dummies

FR is a site for God, Country and Constitution.

PS, luv ya lj....gonna look up " A Charlie Brown Christmas" and watch it on the tube~

[dfwgator]

From Wikipedia

Network executives were not happy with several aspects of the show, forcing Schulz to wage some serious battles to preserve his vision. The executives didn’t want to have Linus reciting the story of the birth of Christ from the Gospel of Luke; the network orthodoxy of the time assumed that viewers would not want to sit through passages of the King James Version of the Bible. But Schulz was adamant about keeping this scene in, remarking that “If we don’t tell the true meaning of Christmas, who will?”

[little jeremiah]

I did not have a happy childhood but I remember with extreme fondness the every Christmas watching of “Amahl and the Night Visitors”. Touched my heart deeply. I haven’t seen it in decades, never saw the Charlie Brown one.

Even doing the Christmas decorations at school was such a happy time for me, all other memories of school (other than the last day before summar vacation) were so unpleasant. I had to be dragged to school...

[little jeremiah]

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There is no such thing as "values neutral". And by NOT mentioning Christmas, it is a purposeful action. It is not neutral. How about kids learning about Christmas and Hanukkah. What's wrong with that? And no wiccan crap, either. (pardon language, my tolerance went away.)

[little jeremiah]

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There is no such thing as "values neutral". And by NOT mentioning Christmas, it is a purposeful action. It is not neutral. How about kids learning about Christmas and Hanukkah. What's wrong with that? And no wiccan crap, either. (pardon language, my tolerance went away.)

[reg45]

Wouldn’t it be less expensive to rent the DVD?

[little jeremiah]

Until very recently no one ever thought there was anything wrong with mention of Christmas or God in public schools. Only because of secular humanism/marxism is God taken out of schools. And since 85% or more of the US population celebrates Christmas, I don’t see why dragging in Satan and Ramadan is relevant. Actually Ramadan and other Islmic crap is shoved down kids’ throats in schools all over, and atheists never say a word.

Odd how secular leftists luv Islam. I guess the dominance, violence and hatred just naturally attract them.

[Nowhere Man]

Oh, criminy! Ir as the article shows, Good Grief! Can we get Linus to use his blanket as a sling so he can knock out these bozos and feed them to the Kite Eating Tree. Better yet, let Snoopy use them for target practice in his Sopwith Camel. Good Grief!

[GenXteacher]

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”- George Washington

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”- John Adams

Contrasted to:
“To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.”- Vladimir Lenin

Not a hard choice to make.....

[berdie]

Don’t know your age..

But I will say this.

This country was founded on Judeo/Christian values, was it not?

The majority, today at least, in this country are Christian.

If you travel to another country with a different religion, Christians are not accomadated. So much for this pc crapola.

If a parent of a minority (at least today) religion wants to opt out of their child going to see a Christian production..that is fine with me. Let the majority go. In my mind it is pretty simple.

[Nowhere Man]

BTW, when I was in grade school, we watched it every year. The teacher wheeled out the TV, usually black and white and we used a Sony 1 inch video tape reel-to-reel helical scanning recorder (VTR). This was 1973 to 1979 although we were starting to get color TV’s by 1977 but the VTR was black and white only. We saw a lot of other Peanuts specials too.

[Nowhere Man]

I recently read that certain groups deemed Charlie Brown as too violent. Alrighty then. Let’s look at what they watch now.

Yet, I remember the day when Race Bannon would slug the guy and people actually died on "Jonny Quest" and "Speed Racer" too. Can't show that, to un-PC but there is a lot of trash out there today.

[LibsRJerks]

Ha. Wegman’s has a HUGE Charlie Brown Christmas tree promotional display right out in front of their stores this season... it’s so cute ... I love it!

You’ve got to wonder what type of people find problems with a show like Charlie Brown’s Christmas ...seriously. What miserable souls.

[Hound of the Baskervilles]

I grew up exactly the way you did and it was wonderful. Shoot I grew up
In Catholic schools in the 50’s. But America was a more homogeneous country then. And it was not a good thing in every single way.

Do you want to go back to segregation, to women not getting higher education,
To Latinos being nothing more than gardeners and gays being shoved into the dark corners of society? Of course you don’t.

We have to look back and accept that the end of white, Christian, male privilege is over.

There is a positive side. In my community and at my job, there are all kinds of people, black, white, gay straight, religious and nonreligious living and working side by side. My boss is Latina, her boss is gay, the blbacks I work with are prospering. and I am so glad I lived to experience this.

All is not lost. I think more than anything the media gives the impression that there is constant chaos going on in America. But when I walk out my front door and go into real life with all its new diversity everthing is great. Sometimes I think I am lucky and living in a bubble.

But it just might be that if there was no media brining us news of every wacko
Lawsuit, grievance group and malcontent we could get the big picture that there are changes that are good and the media are the ones living in a bubble.

[berdie]

I don't remember Race Bannon or Speed Racer..

But Bugs Bunny, Road Runner and the Three Stooges were not policitaly correct by today's standard.

I have yet to go out and commit a mass murder because of them.

[SECURE AMERICA]

Religious holidays are wonderful. Celebrate them at home in church or temple but not in the public schools.

Being run by the Government means the schools follow Government holidays. Christmas is a Government holiday

[berdie]

No reason you can’t go to work. The work place is usually attainable.

[Nowhere Man]

I would not give it back for anything. I have to say “A Charlie Brown Christmas” makes me cry like a baby. My husband got me the complete Charlie Brown holiday DVD gift box a few years ago.

If you want a real tear jerker from the Peanuts gang, watch "What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown" from 1983 where the gang was in France and they go see Normandy and Flander's Fields. Linus does a beautiful job is discussing Normandy as you saw rotoscoped animation showing our troops hitting the beach, the Eisenhower speech about Normandy he made in 1964 looking back and him explaining we almost gave up until we broke through at the Pointe Du Hoc. Also, I loved his reading of "In Flanders Fields."

Runner up, "Why, Charlie Brown, Why," (1990) where Linus falls in love with a new girl at school, she gets luekemia and goes through chemo and the works. She loses her hair but is able to go to school, although she ended up in hospital a couple of times. She was bald at school and a bully picks on her and Linus just loses it and lets him have it.

Still Linus reading the Bible on the real reason of Christmas, sends chills down my spine.

If I may, Hound, I see where you're coming from and I see myself a libertarian leaning on many things, but I see no harm is showing kids programs like these in school. We did it and more back in the 1970's and we turned out fine. I can see your point if someone would force people to believe by sticking an M-16A1 in their face but I don't see it here. If an atheist does not want their kid to see it, just have him excused, why should the rest suffer?