Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
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From: Sancho Panza on 12 Dec 2006 21:22 "Mxsmanic" <mxsmanic(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:cplun29qe4m8aq86ol4680ajolu8c52ukl(a)4ax.com... > flaviaR(a)verizon.net writes: > > > Except for that holy day of obligation & all that. > > I've never heard of that. What is it? > > > We are not frightened by this age-old, and still lame, threat. > > "We"? > > It's not a threat, it's an observation. If you want people to like > you, you should avoid doing things that alienate them. Is that referring to Christians, Jews, Muslims or just who?
From: Sancho Panza on 12 Dec 2006 21:24 "James A. Donald" <jamesd(a)echeque.com> wrote in message news:kjfun2t0j38kou52kig3u6c47msn4lavu5(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. > > Christmas is a universal celebration, heavily celebrated > by pagans such as Chinese and Japanese. It is intended > to be universal. A noble sentiment, but far far far from anywhere near reality. Lots of luck trying to promote it. > - the slogan being "peace on earth and > goodwill to all men", not "Peace between Christians > while we make war on everyone else" > > Whenever someone wishes you "happy holidays" he is > implicitly claiming that Christmas is "Peace between > Christians while we make war on everyone else", which if > the recipient happens to be a Christian, is an insult.
From: Mxsmanic on 12 Dec 2006 22:10 Sancho Panza writes: > Is that referring to Christians, Jews, Muslims or just who? It refers to human beings in general. Very few people are capable of being kind and fair to people they dislike. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Mxsmanic on 12 Dec 2006 22:11 Ben Kaufman writes: > I think calling it Festivus (for the rest of us) would be finer. Festivus sounds like a disease of some sort, but I have no problem with the idea of a different name. But not "seasons greetings" or anything totally bland like that. -- Transpose mxsmanic and gmail to reach me by e-mail.
From: Tchiowa on 12 Dec 2006 22:35
Mike Hunt wrote: > The issue isn't that the Rabbi wanted the Christmas ornaments removed, > but he wanted representation of his religion a this public facility. > > That request was denied, even though the last Supreme Court case on the > subject agreed with the Rabbi. > > The fact that the airport management took down the Christmas ornaments > leads me to believe that they knew they were in violation of that ruling > . Why didn't they simply allow the Menorah to be displayed? Could it be > they are anti-semitic Could it be because the official national holiday is Christmas, not Hannukah? Putting up a menorrah for Christmas makes no more sense than putting up an Easter Bunny for Halloween. Wrong holiday. Should there be a Jewish holiday? Should the US have a holiday for the Eid that ends Ramadan? Maybe. But that's another issue. We have a holiday that celebrates Christmas and like it our not this is a Christian holiday. If someone doesn't like it he doesn't have to participate. But unless you want to try to ban Christmas then people should grow up and leave it alone. |