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11-03-2008, 10:46 PM #1Only the paranoid survive
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They banned Christmas!
I'm ashamed to say I actually used to live here, I couldn't believe it when a friend sent me a copy of this article http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...d-charity.html
Where would we all be without those delightful people who make it their duty to protect us from ourselves?
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Alex
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11-03-2008, 10:51 PM #2what Dad calls me
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If everbody is for it, Christians,Jews and Muslims, why would the council be against it? Oh! I guess I should re-read my sig line!
It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. Twain
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11-03-2008, 11:18 PM #3Coticule researcher
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The day political correctness became a religion...
They canceled Christmas in Oxford.
They prohibited crucifixes above the door in mayor's offices in Belgium.
One starts to wonder if important people have nothing more important to do than taking such senseless decisions.
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11-03-2008, 11:39 PM #4what Dad calls me
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And dont forget they have taken the 10 commandments out of the courthouses in the U.S..
It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled. Twain
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11-03-2008, 11:51 PM #5
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11-04-2008, 12:47 AM #6Super Shaver
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They should call it what it is anyway, Saturnalia. Either that or Horus' Birthday
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11-04-2008, 01:00 AM #7Senior Member
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I would just point out that, with the exception of the occasional zealot (Madelyn Murray O'Hair comes to mind), there was very little trouble with religious paraphernalia until the religious right began their efforts to take political power in the name of Jesus.
In other words, we're not the ones who politicized religion. When you consider what's happened (think Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggert), you might understand how a moderate person might look askance at displays of religious material in the public square.
But I'll make you a deal. Stop trying to teach my kids to believe in talking snakes and that the dinosaurs are extinct because Noah forgot 'em, and I'll support your efforts to have your creche.
Okay?
j
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11-04-2008, 03:11 AM #8Senior Member
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No more Christmas for any of youse. I told Santa I’ve been a good boy this year and he died laughing.
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11-04-2008, 03:22 AM #9Usagi Yojimbo
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Whatever happened to common courtesy?
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11-04-2008, 03:32 AM #10Senior Member
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I agree, attacks on religious holidays are silly. Christmas is as much a secular holiday as a religious holiday.
I think the problem seems to come from the exclusion of other's religious festivities, rather than do away with the Christian holidays, what's the problem with including others? I think the answer should be ours and everyone else's rather than ours or nothing.
