Posted on 12/26/2005 8:11:14 AM PST by Conservatrix
This particular teacher acted on her own in an officious manner. She destroyed the joyment of the poem for these small children. Regardless of what you think, she was and continues to be a cruel person who is not fit to be around small children.
Do you go off on the "Tooth Fairy" too?
You were the one who brought up discussing abortion (an adult topic) with 6-year-olds, not me.
It's difficult to tell from what you've written above, but when you write of 'adult topics', are you talking about about Santa Claus or abortion?
I'll have to take your word for it.
This particular teacher acted on her own in an officious manner. She destroyed the joyment of the poem for these small children. Regardless of what you think, she was and continues to be a cruel person who is not fit to be around small children.
This is your opinion and you're welcome to it. I happen to disagree.
The primary conclusion that I draw is that religious nutbags that call themselves conservatives can be every bit as dangerous as non-religious nutbags that call themselves liberals.
At times it may be hard to distinguish the two.
And I kept waiting for conservatrix to come back to answer the accusation that she in fact is the Wench Who Stole Christmas. I'm assuming that's because she doesn't want to admit it and doesn't want to lie, even to adults. So she won't answer.
While I respect everyone's rights to hold their own opinion, this action went way over the line. I'm glad she didn't have to read a story about a stork bringing a baby, or she'd feel compelled to demonstrate to the class how babies are really made.
Guess again Santa Claus AKA Saint Nicholas is based upon the life of an actual Saint.
Care to cite a source for this?
That is the truth.
People can justify getting upset about anything and everything I suppose.
I've studied Greek for well over thirty years.
Why do you think I object to "Xmas"?
Dan
I can't make any sense out of that question. Is there any?
Then you realize churchmen themselves used X as an abbreviation for , and that Xmas has been in use in respectful application to "Christmas" for centuries?
Why do you think I object to "Xmas"?
I don't know....because you think people are beyond hope and cannot be educated?
To your question, of course.
To the rest -- did you not really want a dialogue? Or is your best understanding of my position, honestly, that I "think people are beyond hope and cannot be educated?" You read the entire essay, you thought, and that's the best you can do?
Dan
A tempest in a teapot...
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This controversy has nothing to do with YOU, or YOUR rights to INTERFERE in what other parents, many of whom are Christians, teach their children about Santa.
#1. It is a PUBLIC school... I pay taxes, I vote (always Republican or not at all)...
#2. Christians are supposed to follow what is in the Bible, and I don't see a Santa clause (sic) anywhere in it...
I may not be a religious person or a Christian, but I will not defend or champion the heresy of others.
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It's called respect and common decency.
Render unto to Caesar what is Caesar's...
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I suggest you do more reading in your guilded (sic) Bible (and please spare me the pagan speech).
My gilded Bible is a fine work of art as far as I am concerned. If you herald Christmas as a Christian celebration of Yeshua, it is you that needs to better read it, as I have demonstrated.
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I think we're done with this conversation because frankly, I'm sure it will only continue to go nowhere.
Nothing is but what is not. (Macbeth)
Go take your meds. I'm done with you....
Yes, it is. So is the Song of Solomon.
I think this is a fun, tempest in a teapot issue about contemporary Christians and their conceited heresies...
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Santa Claus is a cultural persona...
Santa is a phantasm. Who is prince of phantasms in the Bible? Beelzebub.
Consider the words: fan (fanatici), fantasy (phantasien), fantastical, fanatical, fantasia, phantom, phantasm, phantasmal, phantasmagoric, etc.; with their etymological and definitive relations to each other.
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fairy tales
That term caught my eye...
Thomas Hobbes...
Part IV. Of the Kingdom of Darkness
Chap. xlvii. Of the Benefit that proceedeth from such Darkness
...the kingdom of fairies (that is, to the old wives' fables in England, concerning ghosts and spirits and the feats they play in the night).
The fairies, in whatever nation they converse, have but one universal king, which some poets of ours call King Oberon; but the Scripture calls Beelzebub, prince of demons.
The fairies and ghosts inhabit darkness, solitudes, and graves.
The fairies also have their enchanted castles and certain gigantic ghosts that domineer over the regions round about them.
The fairies cannot be seized and brought to answer for the hurt they do.
An Orthodox bishop...
How would you know? You taught high school...
There have been recent threads about just that...
May I ask what is so offensive about Santa Claus.
I think the idea of someone giving to children for nothing in return a very nice thing. I don't see how it can be offensive.
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