From: flaviaR on

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

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
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]
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From: brique on

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

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
>
>


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