Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
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From: Ben Kaufman on 14 Dec 2006 07:29 On 14 Dec 2006 01:06:37 -0800, "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > >Mike Hunt wrote: >> Laura Sanchez wrote: >> >> >>Too bad Christianity doesn't return the favor. >> > >> > >> > >> > Excuse me? It's Christians that are the only ones defending Israel and >> > denouncing anti-Semitism. >> > >> >> Yet, they can't seem to share the winter holiday season by permitting a >> one Jewish symbol at the airport. > >Which "holiday" are you talking about? There is only one *NATIONAL >HOLIDAY* and it isn't a Jewish Holiday so why would you put up a Jewish >symbol? > >Putting up a Jewish symbol would be celebrating a holiday that is >*PURELY* a religious holiday and not a national holiday and thus would >be in clear violation of separation of church and state. Ah constitutionally based bigotry, way to go! Ben
From: Sancho Panza on 14 Dec 2006 07:55 "Tchiowa" <tchiowa2(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1166087197.224084.194910(a)80g2000cwy.googlegroups.com... > > Mike Hunt wrote: >> Laura Sanchez wrote: >> >> >>Too bad Christianity doesn't return the favor. >> > >> > >> > >> > Excuse me? It's Christians that are the only ones defending Israel and >> > denouncing anti-Semitism. >> > >> >> Yet, they can't seem to share the winter holiday season by permitting a >> one Jewish symbol at the airport. > > Which "holiday" are you talking about? There is only one *NATIONAL > HOLIDAY* and it isn't a Jewish Holiday so why would you put up a Jewish > symbol? > > Putting up a Jewish symbol would be celebrating a holiday that is > *PURELY* a religious holiday and not a national holiday and thus would > be in clear violation of separation of church and state. Hanukah is not a religious holiday. It is not mentioned in sacred texts. It is a military/political pep rally.
From: Sancho Panza on 14 Dec 2006 07:57 "James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote in message news:vd02o21oloh3g8sq4btpbb06v6auqchb1t(a)4ax.com... > James A. Donald: >> > 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. > > flaviaR(a)verizon.net >> Thanks for telling us just what you think of everyone >> who is not Xian. > > But there was no end: Consider for example Kwanza. > > And while the Christmas trees are designed to be as > inoffensive as possible, "Goodwill to all men" the > menorah is not - it the equivalent of putting a manger > at the airport, That is severely uninformed. A menorah has absolutely no religious meaning whatsoever, and there is no way that you can show that it does.
From: Sancho Panza on 14 Dec 2006 08:04 "James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote in message news:1q22o2tk6mvuj1rse31hh73mn9h6q2pc04(a)4ax.com... > "James A. Donald" >> > But you guys are trying to suppress even the secular >> > aspects of Christmas - you were suing against the >> > display of Christmas trees, not the display of >> > stables and mangers. You are suing against the >> > stuff that people see in Singapore > > "Sancho Panza" >> Pretty fast on the trigger with "you guys." Just what >> guys do you mean? > > By "you guys" I mean everyone that gets so enraged by > the symbols of Christianity that they cannot even stand > symbols that are associated with the symbols of > Christianity - I mean commies, militant Jews, radical > islamists, Gaia worshippers, the usual. Hindus, > animists and ancestor worshippers somehow never have > this problem. But you are saying in posts right around this one that it is not a religious symbol. Which is it, religious or not? If it's a symbol of Christianity, as you say here, why should other faiths not be similarly represented?
From: Sancho Panza on 14 Dec 2006 08:04
"James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote in message news:ur32o2pml2l2q7o6jrp89rmg02ebd0octs(a)4ax.com... > "brique" >> Nobody was 'sueing against the display of trees'. a >> rabbi threatened to sue if the airport did not also >> display symbols of his religion alongside the trees. > > But they were displaying trees, and not a manger, > because the manger is a symbol of the Christian > religion, and the trees are not. If the trees are not a religious symbol, why is there so much fervor to display them? |