On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:49:08 -0500, Gene
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On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:34:51 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:22:12 -0500, Gene
wrote:

On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:56:41 -0500, John H
wrote:

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:56:01 -0500, I am Tosk
wrote:

In article ,
says...

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:59:12 -0500, John H
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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/...xmas/celeb.htm

Don't be so quick to paint all Christians with that broad brush.

Wow, and in my 50 years I have never met one, much less heard of one
trying to shut down my celebration... hummmmmm...

Me neither. But Gene has many living right around his house. Do you
reckon he polls the neighbors to see which are Christians, which
prohibit anything to do with Christmas, which don't say "Merry
Christmas", and so on.

Must be hard to get all those questions answered.

Nah, it is quite easy. I have in-laws that constantly want to *save*
me with their particular twist on "the way the truth and the light." I
don't have to ask to get questions answered.... you folks are usually
pretty "in your face" about what your Lord and God demandeth other
folks shall know and follow.

I have a tree and mistletoe, they don't.... go figure.....

Oh, yeah, I forgot.... some of the Quakers.... locally, the Quaker
college doesn't even have an American flag on campus! But I've got one
of those!

Have a Happy Holiday!

Thanks! Right back atcha!

Your phrase, "...there are a lot of Christian children around here..."
is what led to my comments above. I was wondering how you knew so much
about your neighbors.

I think all of my neighbors go to the Methodist church at the end of
our road. They aren't the nutcase variety, although at a restaurant
tonight, one nosy old broad (who I didn't even know) took us to task
(wife and son included) for not attending church often enough. I was
nice, you would have been proud...

So all those children to which you refer aren't from 'around here',
i.e. around you.

Probably 55% of this county is hard core, either Southern Baptist or
Primitive Baptist.

What I MEANT was that there are a lot of fundamentalist denominations
in this area, which I have already enumerated. I don't peer into my
neighbor's windows, I just know a lot about the denominations and
their rites. Why?

Why what?

My father owned a stone company and I have been to every church and
synagogue in (it seems) NC/SC/VA/TN that had a cemetery. I learned a
lot from all of those folks. I also graduated from a Methodist
college. I didn't drop down from another planet, with no experience in
the matter.....

Good for you.
--

John H