On 12/15/09 8:36 PM, Gene wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:50:10 -0800 (PST), "*e#c"
wrote:

On Dec 15, 6:45 pm, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:59:12 -0500, John
wrote:

Christmas, and the fact that so many people get so much enjoyment from
the season, must really **** off the atheists.

Not only that.... it really ****es off a lot of Christians, because
they know it is celebrating a Pagan holiday with a ton of Pagan
trappings.... and they will do anything to prevent being guilty of
idolatrous worship....

... there are a lot of Christian children around here that will get no
presents and wouldn't want them, if they did.... there are Christian
homes with absolute prohibitions against anything associated with
Christmas.... no trees, no 12 days, no Yule log, no parades, no
exchanging gifts, no ornaments, no mistletoe, no green, no red, no
presents, no Santa, and *certainly* no eggnog. And you'll NEVER catch
THEM saying, "Merry Christmas."http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/Psychology/xmas/celeb.htm

Don't be so quick to paint all Christians with that broad brush.
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no trees, no 12 days, no Yule log, no parades, no
exchanging gifts, no ornaments, no mistletoe, no green, no red, no
presents, no Santa, and *certainly* no eggnog. And you'll NEVER catch
THEM saying, "Merry Christmas."

Sounds like the invading Muslims to me........

Actually, not all that dissimilar, once you think about it....


"Christians" conveniently forget how many wars "christians" have waged
against other christians and people of other faiths, how many
individuals have been murdered, tortured, or maimed in the name of
christianity, or how many cultures have been wiped out in the name of
christianity. In terms of killings over the last 2000 years, there's not
much difference between the christian and muslim faiths.

Hell, you don't have to look further than this newsgroup to find
"christians" who pay no attention to the teachings of their "savior,"
and yet believe their are following their faith.