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From: flaviaR on 13 Dec 2006 23:56 On 13-Dec-2006, James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote: > flaviaR(a)verizon.net: > > So they should have accomodated him they they*should* > > have. > > If someone is offended by Christmas Which was not what was going on here - thanks for changing the subject , you cannot > accommodate him except by canceling Christmas, for if > you accommodate him by making some particular changes, > there is no end of people demanding additional > particular changes. And if there is no legal leg to stand on, no one has to make any accomodations. If there's a legal leg to stad on, there's a reason for that. > > It is like negotiating with the Palestinians. You cut a > deal with the PLO, and then they say "thanks, and now for > the demands of Hamas: ..." If you begin, there is no end. Thanks for telling us just what you think of everyone who is not Xian. Susan
From: flaviaR on 13 Dec 2006 23:59 On 13-Dec-2006, "Sancho Panza" <otterpower(a)xhotmail.com> wrote: > > flaviaR(a)verizon.net > >> Which means only that they have taken the secular > >> aspects they like and abandoned the rest - which is > >> the real affront to Xmas. > > > > But you guys are trying to suppress even the secular > > aspects of Christmas This is a lie: the rabbi just wanted equal time. It was the airport that nixed the trees. > > - you were suing This is a lie > > against the > > display of Christmas trees, not the display of stables > > and mangers. You are suing This is a lie. > > against the stuff that > > people see in Singapore > > Pretty fast on the trigger with "you guys." Just what guys do you mean? Guess. Susan
From: Al Klein on 14 Dec 2006 00:01 On 13 Dec 2006 19:01:58 -0800, "Laura Sanchez" <llaauurraasanchez(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >God bless the Jewish people. They are always the friends of Christians. Too bad Christianity doesn't return the favor. -- rukbat at optonline dot net "Atheism is the world of reality, it is reason, it is freedom. Atheism is human concern, and intellectual honesty to a degree that the religious mind cannot begin to understand. And yet it is more than this. Atheism is not an old religion, it is not a new and coming religion, in fact it is not, and never has been, a religion at all. The definition of Atheism is magnificent in its simplicity: Atheism is merely the bed-rock of sanity in a world of madness." [Atheism: An Affirmative View, by Emmett F. Fields] (random sig, produced by SigChanger)
From: brique on 14 Dec 2006 00:47 James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote in message news:rku0o29k56rshruamdfieea2n8q4frshie(a)4ax.com... > Mike Hunt > > > > The issue isn't that the Rabbi wanted the > > > > Christmas ornaments removed, but he wanted > > > > representation of his religion a this public > > > > facility. > > James A. Donald: > > > Christmas is a universal celebration, > > flaviaR(a)verizon.net > > No, it is not. The fact that some people have > > secularized it changes nothing. > > So you are worried that people might look at the > Christmas tree and THINK of a manger? > > Sure sounds like war on Christmas. Probably the same way you worry that seeing a woman wearing a chador will make people accept Allah and promptly start slaughtering your neighbours..... > > -- > ---------------------- > We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because > of the kind of animals that we are. True law derives from this > right, not from the arbitrary power of the omnipotent state. > > http://www.jim.com/ James A. Donald
From: brique on 14 Dec 2006 00:49
Cary Kittrell <cary(a)afone.as.arizona.edu> wrote in message news:elpusk$bu6$1(a)onion.ccit.arizona.edu... > In article <rku0o29k56rshruamdfieea2n8q4frshie(a)4ax.com> James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> writes: > > Mike Hunt > > > > > The issue isn't that the Rabbi wanted the > > > > > Christmas ornaments removed, but he wanted > > > > > representation of his religion a this public > > > > > facility. > > > > James A. Donald: > > > > Christmas is a universal celebration, > > > > flaviaR(a)verizon.net > > > No, it is not. The fact that some people have > > > secularized it changes nothing. > > > > So you are worried that people might look at the > > Christmas tree and THINK of a manger? > > > > Sure sounds like war on Christmas. > > Sounds like a bar fight against Christmas -- an > isolated incident. A war would be large > numbers of complaints or lawsuits against > displays which contain no specifically > Christian symbolism. Yet this is the only > story of this nature I am aware of which > did not involve things such a manger, wise > men, or other related icons. The joke is that the decorated tree is a pagan symbol, adopted by germans christians, imported into England and popularised by the Victorians and thence spread world-wide. It has no relationship to the christian nativity tale at all. > > > -- cary > > |