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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 09:44 PM
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Christmas Wars Episode II: Attack of the Fundie Clowns
The freaks will be with us. Always. :freak:


from the American Family Assn's OneNewsNow:



Multicultural displays 'neutering' Christmas
Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 12/18/2008 6:30:00 AM


Christmas is being compromised in one New York town in the name of inclusivity.

In the New York village of Armonk, officials have placed a menorah for the Jewish faith and the Islamic star and crescent for the Muslim faith alongside the town's Christmas tree. Bill Donahue of the Catholic League does not believe a Christmas tree correctly represents the Christian faith. Instead, he says the Christian religious symbol of this season should be a nativity scene.

Last year, a Muslim resident in Armonk asked officials to display Islamic symbols so Muslims could be included in Christmas celebrations. This year, the town complied.

"There's something perverse in the land. This multicultural rage has been implemented basically to neuter Christmas," Donahue notes. "If you can dilute its significance by celebrating everybody else's religious and ethnic and cultural traditions, then you can really water down Christmas -- and that's really what's going on here."

According to WorldNetDaily, the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha does not always fall in December, yet it has representation in holiday displays. Donahue believes something is terribly wrong with this picture.

"To think that we're taking a country which is grounded in the Judeo-Christian ethos and we're standing religion on its head to accommodate radical secularists whose whole goal is to assault religion, and particularly Christianity, is really troubling," he concludes.


http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=355582 (If the dark side of the force Rick-rolls you, you can find this story in the onenewsnow area of www.afa.net. )


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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 09:47 PM
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1. Let's invite 'em to the inauguration! nt
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 09:49 PM
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2. Geez.....Can this thread be spared that pissing match?
Some of us are trying to avoid it.


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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 09:50 PM
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3. I wonder if he even understands the phrase "Judeo-Christian"
all the while objecting to any display other than Christian ( and quite likely, just Catholic ).

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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 09:50 PM
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4. delete - dupe - damn DU website.
Edited on Thu Dec-18-08 09:51 PM by lapfog_1


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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 09:58 PM
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5. Jeezus H. Keyriced. Christmas is represented best by a busy mall scene,
Santa Claus, and some pissed off little boy who didn't get what he wanted. That's what Christmas is really all about.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 10:16 PM
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7. Don't forget the Clean Coal in the stocking ...
... hung by the chimney with care. :rofl:
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Spectral Music Donating Member (349 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 10:26 PM
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9. Frosty the coal man, was a jolly happy soul....
http://watthead.blogspot.com/2008/12/frosty-coal-man-coal-industry-dresses.html

"...When you peddle a product that blows the tops off of whole mountains, is the leading contributor to global warming and toxic air pollution, and is facing an increasingly effective grassroots and legal assault, what are you to do? Well, apparently what you do is dress up your ugly product in cute Christmas garb, pen some songs to the tune of favorite seasonal carols, and then sit back and wait for the public to rush to your side.

At least that's the apparent logic behind the coal lobby's new "Clean Coal Carolers" web page, (and FaceBook group) where - I'm not making this up! - you can dress up little, floating, anthropomorphic chunks of coal in scarves and ear muffs and have them sing versions of your favorite carols, brazenly updated to shill for the mythic "clean coal" the industry is peddling these days. "Silent Night" is now "Clean Coal Night" and "Frosty the Snowman" is the "portable and adorable" "Frosty the Coalman."..."
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-19-08 10:52 AM
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10. LOL! Yeah, that magic clean coal!!!! nt
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HeresyLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 10:11 PM
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6. Christians aren't supposed to have Christmas trees.
Jeremiah 10:2-4: "Thus 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. For 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. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." (KJV).
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 10:22 PM
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8. Note to Donahue, the Catholic Church incorporated the Christmas Tree
to get converts centuries ago. It is Catholic and Christian "tradition". :crazy:
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