Easter - ABC Style

[Annie]

I am glad I am not a catholic, methinks

I'd assume all Christians that are not Catholic agree with you.

 

[no1tovote4]

I am glad that I am not a Christian that has spent most of his Easter holiday posting here about another Christian and how they weren't Christian enough because they were posting here....

I'm so confusticated. It seems that one spent almost the whole day by posting about how another shouldn't have posted....

 

[maineman]

I am glad that I am not a Christian that has spent most of his Easter holiday posting here about another Christian and how they weren't Christian enough because they were posting here....

I'm so confusticated. It seems that one spent almost the whole day by posting about how another shouldn't have posted....

I was at church from 8:30 until 11:30...and then I came home.... logged on....watched the masters.... prepared Easter dinner.... what IS your point?

 

[no1tovote4]

I was at church from 8:30 until 11:30...and then I came home.... logged on....watched the masters.... prepared Easter dinner.... what IS your point?

I have read your posts all day about how poor of a Christian another was because of spending time posting here on this holiday. So as I posted earlier:

Pot, meet Kettle. I am sure you will get along famously.

 

[maineman]

I have read your posts all day about how poor of a Christian another was because of spending time posting here on this holiday. So as I posted earlier:

Pot, meet Kettle. I am sure you will get along famously.

and if you cannot see the difference between one poster who goes to church on Easter and one who doesn't. then you really do not have enough perception to determine the color of pots or kettles

 

[no1tovote4]

and if you cannot see the difference between one poster who goes to church on Easter and one who doesn't. then you really do not have enough perception to determine the color of pots or kettles

You didn't even ask if he did. You simply assumed that because he posted today that he didn't go to church....

However, I present to you that those who go to church on this day, but not on others then spend the day telling others that they are not a good enough Christian, might have a bit of introspection coming their way.

Yes, Pot, meet Kettle. Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than sitting in a Planetarium makes you a Astronomer.

 

[no1tovote4]

Anyway, MM, I don't think you are a "bad" Christian for posting. Or for talking about another who did. I just think that it is odd that you posted an entire day about how somebody else shouldn't have been posting on that particular day...

Whether they go to church on this day doesn't make any person more Christian than another, any more than a person going to the Buddhist Center more often than another makes them more Buddhist than I. Shoot, just going to the Buddhist center doesn't even make one a Buddhist any more than the previously assigned Planetarium would make me an Astronomer.

Spending a day in discussion of the religion had to have a positive benefit for both of you, a day of introspection. I can see few better ways to learn.

 

[red states rule]

and if you cannot see the difference between one poster who goes to church on Easter and one who doesn't. then you really do not have enough perception to determine the color of pots or kettles

Translation - You are making to many good points so I will play the intellectual superiority card now

 

[maineman]

Translation - You are making to many good points so I will play the intellectual superiority card now

translation: I know what Easter is about... and it ain't bunnies and colored eggs....

and I know that I do not feel that my continued celebration of Easter is "threatened" in any way by secular liberals.... and I am the one to worry about that, because, unlike you, I actually do celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and not the commercial hawking of bunnies and eggs to boost retail sales.

 

[red states rule]

translation: I know what Easter is about... and it ain't bunnies and colored eggs....

and I know that I do not feel that my continued celebration of Easter is "threatened" in any way by secular liberals.... and I am the one to worry about that, because, unlike you, I actually do celebrate the resurrection of Jesus and not the commercial hawking of bunnies and eggs to boost retail sales.

I am pointing out some offended libs are trying to ruin the holiday - as they do every Christmas

Libs have this obsession whith trying to impose their views on tohers - they have to learn to shut up and take it - or libs will fly into a tizzy

 

[maineman]

I am pointing out some offended libs are trying to ruin the holiday - as they do every Christmas

Libs have this obsession whith trying to impose their views on tohers - they have to learn to shut up and take it - or libs will fly into a tizzy

and again...what you pointed out had to do with easter bunnies and colored eggs, and I am saying that those things have nothing to do with easter.

and again...why are YOU so upset? You don't even celebrate easter.... meaning, you don't even celebrate the resurrection of Christ.... you may celebrate bunnies and eggs, but, as shown, that really isn't easter, is it?

 

[red states rule]

and again...what you pointed out had to do with easter bunnies and colored eggs, and I am saying that those things have nothing to do with easter.

and again...why are YOU so upset? You don't even celebrate easter.... meaning, you don't even celebrate the resurrection of Christ.... you may celebrate bunnies and eggs, but, as shown, that really isn't easter, is it?

I am not upset - I expact libs to attack most holidays

Libs, however get upset when others point the attacks out

Like you for one

 

[maineman]

I am not upset - I expact libs to attack most holidays

Libs, however get upset when others point the attacks out

Like you for one

you were the one who started this idiotic thread....

I am a liberal....I am a Christian... and I can attest to the fact that NOTHING being said or done by secular liberals threatens me or my observance of Easter or any other religious holiday in any way.

 

[red states rule]

you were the one who started this idiotic thread....

I am a liberal....I am a Christian... and I can attest to the fact that NOTHING being said or done by secular liberals threatens me or my observance of Easter or any other religious holiday in any way.

I started the thread to show how some libs try to impose their views on others

You are having your mormal fit when their actions are pointed out

In Novemeber these same idiots will start their annual war on Christmas, and I will be pointing those actions out as well

I am sure you will attack me and defend them as you are doing now

 

[maineman]

I started the thread to show how some libs try to impose their views on others

You are having your mormal fit when their actions are pointed out

In Novemeber these same idiots will start their annual war on Christmas, and I will be pointing those actions out as well

I am sure you will attack me and defend them as you are doing now

all I have ever said was that attacks on the easter bunny were not attacks on the holiday. easter bunnies have nothing to do with the religious holiday of easter...neither do colored eggs. And I fail to understand the basis for your claims about an "annual war on Christmas" eihter.... that is a fiction created by the right wing to stir up their base. Real Christians know that Christmas does not need mangers in shopping malls. It needs devout Christians remembering the birth of the Christ child... and all that he brought to this earth. Real Christians could care less about commericalized public trappings.

 

[red states rule]

It is only April and you are defending them already

Yes, to libs kids singing Christmas Carols and having a Christmas parties in school will destroy America

To libs, Christains should shut up and keep their faith to themselves when they are attacked

 

[maineman]

It is only April and you are defending them already

Yes, to libs kids singing Christmas Carols and having a Christmas parties in school will destroy America

To libs, Christains should shut up and keep their faith to themselves when they are attacked

to conservatives, keeping Christmas carol singing in churches and homes will somehow make children become heathens! lol

My kids and I join a whole bunch of fellow carolers from our church and we go carolling all around our neighborhood during advent. It is really fun, and no one has ever suggested that we discontinue that practice.

 

[red states rule]

to conservatives, keeping Christmas carol singing in churches and homes will somehow make children become heathens! lol

My kids and I join a whole bunch of fellow carolers from our church and we go carolling all around our neighborhood during advent. It is really fun, and no one has ever suggested that we discontinue that practice.

Jingo Bell Crock
Shiver me timbers and jigger me with a yule log, the Holiday Season is upon us once again and the whole city is aglow with decorations. It seems like only yesterday that Peaceblossom and I bundled ourselves up in our matching hemp sweaters and took a long, romantic stroll through the neighborhood, singing "Jingo Bell Crock" at the top of our lungs and kicking over nativity scenes. Ah, the memories! I can still recall the delicious, teary-eyed look of dumbstruck horror on that crazy geezer's face as I punted Baby Jeezus across her front lawn.


"STOP RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE NOW!" I shouted at the shriveled old zealot.

"GO BACK TO JESUS LAND, YOU DOGMA-SPEWING FASCIST!" Peaceblossom chimed in as she merrily stomped the three wise men into the dirt.

"Lawrence Engels Chomstein, you little BASTARD!" Gramma cried. "I'm calling the police!"

Goddess, I miss her. It's so hard to get into the holiday spirit without her around. Peaceblossom, that is. I long for the good ol' days when we were still a team, standing up to religious fanaticism wherever we found it. I sure could have used Peace by my side Saturday, when I ran smack into the very same sort of ugly, blind hatred that Gramma displayed for her very own grandson last Christmas.

With the Blog Awards less than a week away, I had planned to spend all weekend at the public library, frantically voting. But when I walked in the main entrance, all my hopes and dreams were brutally shattered by the great, big, aluminum baseball bat of reality. Before me, in all it's obscene splendor, stood what I will one day describe to my grandchildren as a "Christmas Tree". Decked out in crudely crafted ornaments, stringed popcorn garnish, and sneering gingerbread men, it was as if my all worst nightmares had somehow come to life. The final kick in the crotch was perched daintily atop the vile monstrosity: a single yellow construction-paper star signifying the horrific event that led to 2000 years of genocide and opression in the name of religion.

I couldn't breathe. The room spun around me. How could this be? Had the whole world gone mad? I thought the King County Master Librarian issued a Fatwah banning Christmas trees from the libraries. I thought he was one of the good guys! Didn't he care at all about the feelings of non-Christians who might walk in and see that horrific fungus staring back at them?

For a long time I just stood there, gazing with disbelief and disgust at its sheer naked depravity. Then, the floodgates burst wide open and out poured years of pent-up rage over religious opression in the form of a high-pitched, girlish scream. I screamed and screamed and screamed some more. I screamed for a good five minutes, yet drew only looks of mild annoyance. When I realized that no one was going to come running over in truckling response to my feminine hysterics, I screamed even louder. Finally, a bespectacled little rat-faced librarian idled over and tugged at my sleeve.


"Sir," she wheezed. "The P.E.S.T. group therapy session is being held in the library auditorium, through the double-doors and past the big pile of spent kleenex."

I stopped screaming and jabbed a finger furiously at the giant Tree of Hate.

"What is THAT?" I demanded.

"It's a Christmas tree," she answered hesitantly.

"In a public building? HAVEN'T YOU EVER HEARD OF THE SECOND AMENDMENT?""Yes, but it's sort of a library tradition," she explained. "Local cub scouts decorate it every year with ornaments they made by hand. People can bid on the decorations and the proceeds goes to charity. It's really a nice thing."

I didn't know what was more infuriating: The way she proudly admitted that the Hitler Youth were responsible for this obscenity, or how she actually believed that offending people in the name of some bogus charity actually justifies the crime.

"A nice thing?" I spat. "A NICE THING? What about the Jewish kid who saunters in, suddenly discovers that we're celebrating a Christian holiday, and becomes so offended that he claws his own eyes out in shame? Is that a 'nice thing'? What about the poor homeless man who comes in out of the cold to surf child porn in a warm, welcoming environment, but is instead accosted by a 10-foot icon of exclusion? Is a that a 'nice thing'? And what about the gay couple who visits the library to check out Eminem's latest CD, but is greeted at the door by the scowling symbol of a religious faith that doesn't accept or celebrate their lifestyle? Is it a 'nice thing' that they become targets of physical violence because a group of knot-tying nazi larvae want to maintain their tax exempt status? Don't you have any regard for the feelings of others? HAVE YOU NO COMPASSION?"

"Well, actually, we haven't received any complaints from..."

"Oh, but of course not," I cut her off. "Who's going to lodge a complaint about the burning cross on their front lawn when all the cops are in the Klan? People are too terrified to complain."

"Terrified of a tree?"

"Absolutely! It may appear to be just a harmless plant, but if you give these evangelical's an inch, they'll take a mile. Today, it's a Christmas Tree in the library lobby. Tomorrow, Santa Claus will be burning heretics on your front steps. That's why George Jefferson wrote the wall between church and state right into the Constitution - so that no one should ever have to feel insulted or threatened by large, brightly festooned conifers. Libraries especially should be places where people of all faiths can go without fear of being offended or excluded, except for Christians but they'll just have to learn to live with it. The biblethumping Whos down in Whoville can whine all they want, but Christmas Trees serve only to divide America and turn us against one another, creating conditions ripe for the very same sort of religious dictatorship that our forefathers came here to escape."



She seemed to let it sink in for a moment, then slowly shook her head.

"I disgree, sir," she said. "While it has roots in Christian and Pagan beliefs, the American tradition of Christmas is not so much a religious holiday as a celebration of the human spirit and love for our fellow man. During the Christmas season, Americans are more tolerant of one another, they go out of their way to be nicer to their neighbors, they smile more and spread good cheer. Yes, it IS a "nice thing", and it's a shame that some small-minded jerks want to destroy the only day of the year that people actually try to get along!"

It was then that I realized that the broad was mentally ill, perhaps dangerous. "Human spirit?" Obviously, this lunatic had never been in the mall on December the 24th. I'd like to see how much "good cheer" she'd have left after being beat up by her "fellow man" for the last copy of Halo 2.

I started to slowly back away when I suddenly remembered why I was there in the first place.


"Where are your computers?" I demanded.

"Second floor," she said. "But they're all taken by homeless people surfing child pornography. I can put you on the waiting list..."

"Forget it," I growled, and turned to leave.

"Merry Christmas!" she said to my back.

"Seig Hiel," I replied, and marched out the door.

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[maineman]

cut and paste RSR....incapable of formulating his own thoughts into coherent sentences.... truly pathetic.

How can I make you understand that I really want to debate YOU....not the staff at newsbusters or any of the other websites you go to for your cut and paste articles....I want to debate YOU.

Will you ever do that? Or am I wasting my time trying to get you to?

 

[red states rule]

cut and paste RSR....incapable of formulating his own thoughts into coherent sentences.... truly pathetic.

How can I make you understand that I really want to debate YOU....not the staff at newsbusters or any of the other websites you go to for your cut and paste articles....I want to debate YOU.

Will you ever do that? Or am I wasting my time trying to get you to?

How many times have we heard about a looney lib freaking out over a Christmas tree in a school or library?

It happens every year and will happen this year