Harry,

Thanks for making my point for me. The celebration of Christmas by
communities and local governments, and the Proclamation of giving Thanks to
God (Thanksgiving) should not be prohibited by our government.

Now that might be offensive to some atheist, but what the hell, you can't
please everyone.


"Harry Krause" wrote in message
news:1100636324.WXJ83E2IMageQdK2+IIbCw@teranews...
Gould 0738 wrote:
Below I have copied Lincoln's Proclamation and all Proclamations from
1940
to 1949. You will see in every proclamation they are giving thanks and
pray
to GOD.



So, is that the Catholic God, the Protestant God, the Born Again God,
the
Jewish God, the Muslim God, or could it be the God of any modern,
monotheistic
faith? One could give thanks to "God" in any number of religions.

Mixing Thanksgiving with Christmas is clever, but not accurate. The God
in the
religious version of Christmas is not the Jewish God, the Muslim God,
etc. Only
that portion of the Christian Trinity represented by Jesus. The Christmas
Story
isn't even acknowledged
by several branches of Christianity.

Incidentally, Muslims revere Jesus very much like Christians respect
Moses,
David, John the Baptist, or what not. You *might* even find a version of
the
Christmas story in the Koran- (I don't know)- but that doesn't make the
Christmas story a "religious" event for them. Until we rewrite the
constitution
there is no room for the government to spend tax dollars promoting
one religious faith or another.


What? Christmas isn't for Christians? Blasphemy!

BTW, Chuckster...does a certain poster here remind you of the Gallowsman
of Atlanta?

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