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From: flaviaR on 14 Dec 2006 08:59 On 14-Dec-2006, "Sancho Panza" <otterpower(a)xhotmail.com> wrote: > Hanukah is not a religious holiday. It is not mentioned in sacred texts. Oh, okay - I see what you mean when you say it's not religious. Susan
From: flaviaR on 14 Dec 2006 09:00 On 14-Dec-2006, James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote: > James A. Donald: > > > It is like negotiating with the Palestinians. > > Mxsmanic > > Maybe. It can't be like the Israelis, since they > > refuse to negotiate. > > They negotiated at Camp David, and look at the results. The lying bigot is also ignoring Wye and Oslo. Not that I'm suprised. Susan
From: flaviaR on 14 Dec 2006 09:02 On 14-Dec-2006, "Anarcissie" <anarcissie(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Sancho Panza wrote: > > "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? > > Yes, that's the question. Why is it so important? And why are they only brought out to celebrate Jesus' birth? Susan
From: Cary Kittrell on 14 Dec 2006 10:15 In article <1166075431.42271.0(a)demeter.uk.clara.net> "brique" <briquenoir(a)freeuk.c0m> writes: > > 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. Yeppers, not an authentic Christian symbol, like, say....um, bunnies and eggs at Easter? -- cary
From: Mark K. Bilbo on 14 Dec 2006 11:22
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:02:49 -0800, 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. By refusing to add a menorah to the airport display? -- Mark K. Bilbo ------------------------------------------------------------ There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels. |