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In show of sensitivity, schools chief renames Easter events
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| 03/23/07
| Gina Macris
Posted on 03/23/2007 5:09:23 AM PDT by Ellesu
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To: Kenny Bunk
Here we go -
Easter
Christmas
St. Valentine's Day
niggardly
refugee
alien
tar baby
tar-and-feather
blackguard
mumbo-jumbo
Jemima
Uncle Ben
Apple Brown Betty
Natural family
Marriage
family values
The Lord's Work
God bless you
There used to be a dance called the Black Bottom but since nobody is complaining about it I won't put it in the list.
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posted on
03/26/2007 6:56:09 AM PDT
by
ladyjane
To: Ellesu
OK, since we cannot use the term P.C. I have a better and more direct word for this, it is called bulls$!t. Not sugar coated, not nice, blunt !
I dont like the term politically correct, Rearick said
To: Ellesu
So who's going to run the "Spring Festival" and "Spring Play" for the "Spring Holiday"?
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posted on
03/26/2007 7:23:16 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: ladyjane
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posted on
03/26/2007 7:25:47 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: Tokra
Interesting discussion. Wasn't it in Alexandria where the elites used the Egyptian mythology of the virgin birth and transfered that myth to Mary?
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posted on
03/26/2007 7:27:43 AM PDT
by
USMMA_83
(Tantra is my fetish ;))
To: Ellesu
Hey! Don't these people know that the
only offensive holiday in the entire calendar is 12/25? There's nothing wrong or sectarian whatsoever about
any other holiday, no matter how "chr*stian" or European! That's why everyone celebrates "halloween" and "St. Patrick's Day" (well, the latter is the ethnic holiday of an ethnic group that has always voted Democrat, so that's perfectly all right)!
I read the ACLU sued to remove a cross from the LA city seal but left in the image of a pagan "gxdess." Don't these stupid liberals know that the name "e*ster" comes from the name of a pagan Germanic spring "gxdess" and ultimately from the Babylonian "gxdess" isht*r? They're supressing paganism! How dare they! What do they think this country is, a chr*stian theocracy??? [/sarcasm]
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posted on
03/26/2007 7:32:29 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Hinneh, 'Anokhi sholeach lakhem 'et 'Eliyyah HaNavi'; lifnei bo' Yom HaShem HaGadol veHaNora'.)
To: PzLdr
Considering the Easter Bunny originated in the symbol of the Celtic Goddess of fertility, the hare, this is almost funny.Don Feder once wrote an article quoting an atheist who ridiculed Fundamentalist chr*stians for attacking the "e*ster bunny." Guess the ACLU-nics are "chr*stian fundies" now!
47
posted on
03/26/2007 7:34:57 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Hinneh, 'Anokhi sholeach lakhem 'et 'Eliyyah HaNavi'; lifnei bo' Yom HaShem HaGadol veHaNora'.)
To: PzLdr
I'm sorry, but it's totally disingenuous to pass off "Easter Bunny" and "Easter" as "nothing to do with Christianity" when we KNOW it IS associated with Christianity and nothing else.
We KNOW today Easter eggs and bunnies and the name itself are meant for CHRISTIANITY. I don't care about the origins, they are dead as dust. If it weren't for Christianity, we would not have Easter egg hunts and Easter baskets filled by the Easter bunny, because it became associated with Christianity (in the past, yes) and THAT is the reason our society uses these things.
They DO NOT use them historically because of an ancient pagan rite.
So it's a bad argument to defend Easter bunnies and the like by claiming it "has nothing to do with Christianity". That's total BS, as another poster said about PC.
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posted on
03/26/2007 7:37:05 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: LonePalm
How about having a show of sesnitivity towards CHRISTIANS for a change. But I guess that is too much to ask.
Ah, but you see, liberals divide the American populations into "host" and "guests." Then, in order to demonstrate their oppeness to the latter, they suppress any and all public expressions of the faith of the former and then publicly fund as many public expressions of the latter as they can find. Then, after they have publicly thanked every "gxd" in the human imagination except the chr*stian one (and of course, HaShem), they congratulate themselves for proving that the US is a non-religious, secular state!
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posted on
03/26/2007 7:37:59 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Hinneh, 'Anokhi sholeach lakhem 'et 'Eliyyah HaNavi'; lifnei bo' Yom HaShem HaGadol veHaNora'.)
To: ladyjane
I notice neither "halloween" nor St. Patrick's Day is on that list of forbidden words.
Do you suppose if the Irish were historically Republican (er, in the American, not the Irish sense) that St. Patrick's Day would be celebrated by so many city governments with public parades and such like?
50
posted on
03/26/2007 7:40:51 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(Hinneh, 'Anokhi sholeach lakhem 'et 'Eliyyah HaNavi'; lifnei bo' Yom HaShem HaGadol veHaNora'.)
To: carton253
What am I to call that plant that we grow on the farm then? Bolls of a fibrous, white substance used for making cloth?
51
posted on
03/26/2007 7:43:02 AM PDT
by
SelmaLee
To: carton253
I bet some of these PC types would be to proud to pick cotton candy for their kids.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
03/26/2007 7:43:30 AM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: Ellesu
What? And I got all dressed up in my Bunny Suit, and the Easter bunny isn't even coming to school? Just d@mn!
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posted on
03/26/2007 7:43:43 AM PDT
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Ellesu
How about using "Peter the Pig".
54
posted on
03/26/2007 8:08:32 AM PDT
by
Colonel PK
(A society that does not VALUE its warriors, will be destroyed by a society that does.)
To: the OlLine Rebel
Pardon me. Although I am, at best a lapsed Catholic, and at worst a deist, my understanding of Easter from the Church of my youth is that it commemorates the suffering of Christ, and His death for the sins of th World, and His Resurrection, as the promise of God's Kingdom for the faithful.
Concededly, it's been years since I've looked at the New Testament, but if you could point me to the passages referring to the Easter Bunny, I'd be most grateful.
The Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs may have become a part of the POPULAR CULTURE surrounding the celebration of Easter, but they are no more "meant for CHRISTIANITY" than Frosty the Snowman is vis a viz Christmas.
And I wasn't defending the Easter Bunny,I was laughing at someone who: [a] Had no clue where the Easter Bunny came from and [b] Failed to differentiate popular culture from religious meaning. Welcome to the club.
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posted on
03/26/2007 8:39:18 AM PDT
by
PzLdr
("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
To: ladyjane
There used to be a dance called the Black Bottom Sweet possibly existent deity, you are really pushing the old envelope. If Hillary is ever elected ... to anything ... you will wind up behind barbed wire in a re-education camp.
Suggest "non-reflective hindquarter coordinated step exercise."
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posted on
03/26/2007 8:57:12 AM PDT
by
Kenny Bunk
(Hillary: A sociopath's enabler in the White House?)
To: SelmaLee
I don't think it is the cotton they protest but the "pickin'" part. Just don't mention how the cotton is harvested and you should be in high cotton.
Oh, wait... you can't say that! Sorry.
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posted on
03/26/2007 9:04:13 AM PDT
by
carton253
(Not enough space to express how I truly feel.)
To: Ellesu
Political Cotrrectness - the Left is hard at work erasing any mention of Christianity in our publik skrools year around.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
03/26/2007 9:09:50 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: ladyjane
Don't forget - "articulate."
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posted on
03/26/2007 9:13:33 AM PDT
by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: Ellesu
At this rate in a few years it will be called the 'Allahu Akbar mini turbin hunt' and only boys will be able to participate.
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posted on
03/26/2007 9:23:53 AM PDT
by
rollo tomasi
(Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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