Group calls for end to Christmas Culture wars

Journalstar.com ^ | 12-29-2007 | Bob Reeves

[stan_sipple]

Group calls for end to Christmas Culture wars

The outrage by some people over department stores using the phrase “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” is a distraction from real moral and social issues, according to a group of concerned Catholics and evangelical Christians.

The group has called for a “cease-fire in the Christmas culture wars,” and challenged conservative talk-show host Bill O’Reilly and others who have lashed out against a so-called secular “War on Christmas.”

In an “Open Letter to Christmas Culture Warriors” published as an advertisement in the New York Post, Washington Times and the National Catholic Reporter, the group says the debate about words used in greetings detracts from the Christmas message of love and good will.

“Christmas marks a season of hope, peace and the light of justice illuminating the dark corners of our world," said Alexia Kelley, Executive Director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. "At a time of a real war in Iraq, and 37 million of our American neighbors living in poverty, we should be focusing on promoting peace and human dignity in our world."

For more information visit www.catholicsinalliance.org.

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

Say what?
I’m afraid you are really stretching on this one!

The anti-Christian movement is certainly NOT fomented by the Masons who are quite religious in their own right.

Where do you get this stuff????

[Mrs. Don-o]

The colossal sloppy flop of Golden Compass is indeed one thing I use to cheer me up whenever I'm feeling a little blue. Just thinking of it --- it made in 4 weeks less than 1/2 of the opening weekend of Alvin and the Chipmunks! Ha! And it cost $200 million to make! Ha HA! And there will never be a sequel, no subtle knife, no amber spyglass, ha HA HA!

Whew. (Catches breath.)

Thanks, Biggirl. I needed that.

[Biggirl]

Your welcome!!!!

[Hunton Peck]

Typical leftist tactic: Start a war on some traditional value and wage it as aggressively as possible until the Good Guys get organized and start to push back, and then call for a ceasefire.

"At a time of a real war in Iraq, and 37 million of our American neighbors living in poverty, we should be focusing on promoting peace and human dignity in our world."

Funny that they didn't mention the million and more abortions committed every year. Guess these "Christians" aren't so interested in uniting against the violence and indignity inflicted on the most innocent. All people of real faith should keep fighting the culture war against these evil ones.

[unspun]

Because that is when the Church does its best to atract new members is when it is being persecuted. The SP forgets that when Christianity is attacked, it grows and spreads.

Then, do your best to destroy the Christ-affected culture, so we all can be persecuted for the Gospel! /s

[stan_sipple]

Good point about this group’s silence on abortion. Even on their website, I didnt see too much about abortion.

[TaxachusettsMan]

JUST LOOK AT THE PICTURES!

Especially of the “Sisters” or “Nuns” !!!!!!

HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

Pearls, earrings, fashionable clothes.

RSM (Real Sad Messes, aka The Ms’s of Misery) and SSJ (Sisters of Social Justice) you would expect, but OP ?????

Guess she’s not part of the Nashville Dominicans.

And poor sad O’Brien from Holy Cross College (just barely Catholic), who was whining recently in The Boston Globe about Cardinal O’Malley’s (just barely vocal) complaint about liberal Democrat Catholics . . . .

By all means, yes, lets declare a truce in the Culture Wars = by which, of course, they mean SURRENDER.

I’ve got a better solution: how about these 60s Leftover Lefties get out of the way and go stuff envelopes for the Hillary Campaign and leave the warfare to those of us who actually believe in something.

[stan_sipple]

i didnt know much about these folks but I did recognize that some belonged to the Maryknolls who were helping the commies in Central America back in the 1980s