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US Army to Soldiers: Don't Say 'Christmas'
Newsmax ^ | December 24, 2013 | Joe Schaffer

Posted on 12/25/2013 7:01:52 AM PST by ZULU

A military diversity training officer instructed a group of U.S. soldiers at Camp Shelby, Miss., not to use the word "Christmas," Fox News columnist Todd Starnes reported Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: christmas; obama
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1 posted on 12/25/2013 7:01:52 AM PST by ZULU
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To: ZULU

“In Your Face, America!”


2 posted on 12/25/2013 7:09:47 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all my fellow Americans. "Whatever" to everybody else!)
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To: ZULU

Recently related...
* VA hospital in Augusta, GA bans all religious Christmas carols
* VA hospital in Dallas, TX refuses to accept Christmas cards that say “Merry Christmas” or “God Bless You”

Something is afoot in the Obastard regime.


3 posted on 12/25/2013 7:10:48 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ZULU

Here’s General Patton’s prayer for fair weather during the Battle of the Bulge and his Chrismas,1944 message to his soldiers, now prohibited.

http://pattonhq.com/prayer.html


4 posted on 12/25/2013 7:13:03 AM PST by Sasparilla
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To: ZULU

..."and joy was spread across the land"

5 posted on 12/25/2013 7:14:35 AM PST by Baynative (Guns have only two enemies: rust and politicians.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Obamabastard and his Marxist Muslim buddies are behind this.


6 posted on 12/25/2013 7:17:50 AM PST by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama the Doctor Mengele of Medical Care)
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To: ZULU
The military brass is becoming one of the most liberal institutions in the country.

All I hear on the radio from them anymore are commercials urging females to enlist. Don't they need anyone else?

7 posted on 12/25/2013 7:26:44 AM PST by skeeter
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Sharia.


8 posted on 12/25/2013 7:30:08 AM PST by expat2
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To: ZULU

How about “Happy Birthday to Jesus Christ, Lord and Savior of the Universe”?


9 posted on 12/25/2013 7:33:55 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Nothing is more savage and brutal than justifiably angry Americans. DonÂ’t believe me? Ask the Germa)
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To: ZULU

Cut military pensions, cut their health care, order Millions spent on benefits for homosexual “spouses”, persecute Christians, impose impossible rules of engagement in combat zones, force them to kowtow to Islam........and on and on. This is all a Satanic attack on our armed forces. Pray to God for our military, please.


10 posted on 12/25/2013 7:34:20 AM PST by SkyPilot
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To: ZULU

We’re going to say “Merry Christmas” regardless what the atheists, pagans and anti-Christians think about it!

SO ... Merry Christmas to one and all ...

Matthew 1:18-25

18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was as follows: After His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Spirit.

19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not wanting to make her a public example, was minded to put her away secretly.

20 But while he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take to you Mary your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

21 And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.”

22 So all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying:

23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.”

24 Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife,

25 and did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he called His name Jesus.

Luke 1:26-35

26 Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a city of Galilee named Nazareth,

27 to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.

28 And having come in, the angel said to her, “Rejoice, highly favored one, the Lord is with you; blessed are you among women!”

29 But when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and considered what manner of greeting this was.

30 Then the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

31 And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bring forth a Son, and shall call His name Jesus.

32 He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Highest; and the Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David.

33 And He will reign over the house of Jacob forever, and of His kingdom there will be no end.”

34 Then Mary said to the angel, “How can this be, since I do not know a man?”

35 And the angel answered and said to her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Highest will overshadow you; therefore, also, that Holy One who is to be born will be called the Son of God.

Luke 2:4-20

4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,;

5 to be registered with Mary, his betrothed wife, who was with child.

6 So it was, that while they were there, the days were completed for her to be delivered.

7 And she brought forth her firstborn Son, and wrapped Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

8 Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night.

9 And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid.

10 Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid, for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which will be to all people.

11 For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.

12 And this will be the sign to you: You will find a Babe wrapped in swaddling cloths, lying in a manger.”

13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying:

14 “Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace, goodwill toward men!”

15 So it was, when the angels had gone away from them into heaven, that the shepherds said to one another, “Let us now go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has come to pass, which the Lord has made known to us.”

16 And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the Babe lying in a manger.

17 Now when they had seen Him, they made widely known the saying which was told them concerning this Child.

18 And all those who heard it marveled at those things which were told them by the shepherds.

19 But Mary kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.

20 Then the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told them.

John 1:1-18

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 He was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.

4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.

5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

7 This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe.

8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.

9 That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

10 He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.

11 He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name:

13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’ “

16 And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.

17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

18 No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him.


11 posted on 12/25/2013 7:36:09 AM PST by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: ZULU

Ridiculous! This soldier says Merry CHRISTmas!!! HOOAH!


12 posted on 12/25/2013 7:39:43 AM PST by bradley75 (Christmas)
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I am a Christian—The US Army back in Basic Training summer of 1969 trained us to recognize General George Washington’s General Orders —to include the one where he expected “every Officer and man to so live and act as becomes a Christian Soldier...’ Neither Washington—nor the Congress that adopted the Articles of War were opposed to Christ, God, Scripture...If the VA Policy is now excluding Merry Christmas, and any Christmas Cards—or reference to Christ, or Scripture they act contrary to the principles that we were trained to defend. I do not impose my religious beliefs on any—Neither will I allow a godless and rebellious State to impose it’s antiChristian policies upon me.Merry Christmas. to ALL —For when the Savior was born -as it is written” and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying Glory to God in the Highest,and on earth Peace,goodwill toward men!” Luke 2:13-14 as it is written in the gospel according to John “this then is the condemnation,that the light has come into the world, but men preferred the darkness ,rather than the light,because their deeds were evil. Chapter 3:verse 19.I cannot control what other men may do with that Truth. As a Christian I am commanded by my Lord and Savior to go and to tell the good news—see the Gospel of Mark chapter 16 verse 15-18 and as this is reflected in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 28:verses 18-20; and as it is written so let it be done.


13 posted on 12/25/2013 7:44:57 AM PST by StonyBurk (ring)
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VA hospital refuses to accept ‘Merry Christmas’ cards
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3105123/posts?page=58

Outrage as Army bans word ‘Christmas’: ‘Treats pornography better than it does Christmas’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3105065/posts?page=5

Army: Don’t say Christmas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3104900/posts


14 posted on 12/25/2013 7:45:33 AM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: ZULU

I’m always skeptical of anything that comes out of the National Guard at Camp Shelby.


15 posted on 12/25/2013 7:47:46 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: skeeter

Queers. They need lots and lots of queers.


16 posted on 12/25/2013 7:53:56 AM PST by Kozak ("Send them back your fierce defiance! Stamp upon the cursed alliance! To arms, to arms in Dixie!)
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To: ZULU
For those in uniform, obligated by law (unjust law, but still one with severe penalties) to follow orders, I hope they will comply with the letter of this command but not in any way with the spirit.

"Merry December 25th!" (or are the thugs going to ban the calendar too?)

"Merry X-mas!" (or is the self-proclaimed ruling class going to ban the letter "X" too?)

"Feliz Navidad!"

"Feliz Natal!"

"Joyeux Noël!"

"Frohe Weihnachten!"

"Buon Natale!"

Members of our military should OBEY unless they have the stomach to accept the severe penalties that will be inflicted on anyone who refuses to bow down to Obama's demands, but only to the minimum extent they can get away with. They should also make marginal compliance with the unconstitutional orders a game that everyone wants to play.

The choice is simple, and the better answer is obvious:


17 posted on 12/25/2013 7:56:38 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine
A Savior Has Been Born !


18 posted on 12/25/2013 8:12:15 AM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ZULU

America is becoming a communists Nation and the destruction of belief in God or Christ will be declared. Church’s, your time will come and by the way, how did your sheep vote? Miss Romney yet?


19 posted on 12/25/2013 8:28:40 AM PST by Logical me
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By the way, Merry Christmas and may God go with you.


20 posted on 12/25/2013 8:29:56 AM PST by Logical me
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