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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 10/01/2009 : 17:10:58
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The annual Christian Christmas Cacophony of Iidiocy, '09 version, is beginning, and it ain't even Halloween yet. One notices that the WorldNetDaily is involved.
It is a ritual of autumn to decry the ever earlier placement of Christmas decorations in retail establishments. The holiday, a celebration of commerce wrapped in religious themes has become a weapon for Christian Domininionsts to demonstrate their belief that America is an exclNetDaily is involved.usively Christian nation and that American Christians are uniquely persecuted for their beliefs. So it is not surprising that the War on Christmas canard begins early as the nation celebrates its first Christmas holiday under an African-American president.
In a report today on WorldNetDaily.com the Alliance Defense Fund claims that the U.S. Forest Service has banned the name of Jesus from decorations being assembled by children in Arizona for a blue spruce from the state that will become the Capitol Christmas Tree this year. Right wing Christian activists are using their children to make a political point and as a front for their judicial activism.
"Banning Christmas from the Capitol Christmas tree is just absurd. Christian students shouldn't be discriminated against for expressing their religious beliefs," said Jonathan Scruggs, litigation staff counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.
"The First Amendment does not allow government officials to exclude schoolchildren's ornaments for the capitol's Christmas tree merely because they communicate a religious viewpoint," he said yesterday. |
They can boast numbers that dwarf all other faiths in the country, including those that have no faith, and yet, they whine and mewl when some shopkeeper wishes somebody a Happy Holiday instead of Christmas. And these jerk-offs wonder why so many are leaving the churchs.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 10/01/2009 : 23:41:08 [Permalink]
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The sectarian decoration of a public-property tree with Christian slogans and symbols is one thing.
What Ron Moore, the author of the Examiner piece, misses (perhaps due to his dislike of capitalism and/or holiday commercialism) is that the secularization of Christmas in retail outfits is driven much more by the quest for the Almighty Dollar than it is by Constitutional church-state separation considerations (which don't apply to private stores, anyway).
Retailers know that their customers are a mix of Christians, "Nones," Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims. They also know that many Christians are put off by attempts to use the Baby Jesus to sell products. So they make the holiday generic, because that creates better sales. They don't do it because the ACLU is threatening them.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
 Posted - 10/02/2009 : 06:06:34 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Retailers know that their customers are a mix of Christians, "Nones," Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims. They also know that many Christians are put off by attempts to use the Baby Jesus to sell products. So they make the holiday generic, because that creates better sales. They don't do it because the ACLU is threatening them.
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Yeah, but where's the outrage in that? These nincompoops need to attach evil satanic intent to anything that discomforts them. Nobody gave them the month of December to own to the exclusion of everybody else's beliefs. Screw 'em. |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 10/02/2009 : 08:29:08 [Permalink]
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I'm thinking of organizing a boycott of any business that fails to wish their customers a Debauched Solstice!
I doubt if it'll go over very big, but why should the fundie, Christian theocracy-droolers have all the fun? Share the stupidity, I say!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 10/02/2009 : 20:26:16 [Permalink]
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"Banning Christmas from the Capitol Christmas tree is just absurd. Christian students shouldn't be discriminated against for expressing their religious beliefs," said Jonathan Scruggs, litigation staff counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund.
"The First Amendment does not allow government officials to exclude schoolchildren's ornaments for the capitol's Christmas tree merely because they communicate a religious viewpoint," he said yesterday. |
That's for the lawyers to decide. So since Mr. Scruggs is (presumably) a christian, we'll let his bible dictate what he should do about christmas trees and ornamentation:
Jeremiah 10:2-4 (King James Version)
2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
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Hmmm... Seems like some kinda sinnin' goin' on there son.
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You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Getting an early start....
