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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
Pretending there is not an organized effort to eliminate all mention of Christ from any public arena doesn't make it so.
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Happy Monkey got it. If you mean "the government" by "public arena", there is certainly an organized effort. My tax dollars don't need to go to sponsor any religion, including Christianity.
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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
Kwanzaa my ass. We've allowed a small group of people to create the false impression that the Christian holiday is just one of many that are actively being celebrated
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Trying replacing "Kwanzaa my ass" with "Hanukkah my ass" or any other number of major religious holidays. Your concept of any religion's validity and recognizability is beside the point, however.
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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
and that by paying attention to xmas, we are somehow offending practitioners of other faiths.
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That's funny, because the imression I've gotten is that a small portion of Christians are making it seem that it is as if they are being offended when their faith isn't expressly referenced
everywhere by
everyone. Why is it that when the system references
nothing and permits people to observe
anything that this small group of Christians think they are being expressly excluded?
Besides, this is all about a private business on private property using a phrase of their choice to wish their customers to what pretty much translates to "have a nice day". If you think there is an organized attack of Christmas, you need to adjust that foil hat of yours. Everything you see happening is either freedom of speech in action or the people of the US attempting to keep their government from mixing with a select religion and excluding taxpayers that don't subscribe to it.
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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
If I move to India, I don't expect Indians to remove all signs of their predominant religion to keep my white Christian ass happy.
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This is amusing, because India is supposed to be a democracy, too, yet they still seem to constantly fall into the trap of truly being a Hindu theocracy. The Indian government suffers from the same illness the US does.
Well, maybe you'd prefer to move to a country where the government recognizes a specific religion of your preference? Would that make you feel more secure about your faith?