moleman
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Are you putting up a holiday tree ?
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Originally posted by rthompson
Actually i believe the 25th of dec started as a pegan holiday and christians adopted the date to celebrate the birth of christ which was closer to sept if i remember right. and jmo i think easter should be celebrated more than christmas. look at what the apostles preached the resurection not the birth. And look at what christians go thru else were we should not complain the lord said we would be persecuted and killed for him and to count it as a blessing when it happens. never the less if happy holidays is what they wanna say i wont be offended at all. as many people that say terrible things as there are out there if somebody goes out of their way to extend a christmas or holiday greeting it should be welcomed.
Some Christians and organizations such as Pat Robertson's American Center for Law and Justice cite alleged attacks on Christmas (dubbing them a "war on Christmas").[215][216][217] One controversy is the occurrence of Christmas trees being renamed Holiday trees.[216] In the United States there has been a tendency, in some contexts, to replace the greeting Merry Christmas with Happy Holidays.[218] Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union have initiated court cases to bar the display of images and other material referring to Christmas from public property, including schools.[219] Such groups argue that government-funded displays of Christmas imagery and traditions violate the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the establishment by Congress of a national religion.[220] In 1984, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Lynch vs. Donnelly that a Christmas display (which included a Nativity scene) owned and displayed by the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, did not violate the First Amendment.[221]
In November 2009, the federal appeals court in Philadelphia endorsed a school district's ban on the singing of Christmas carols.[222] The US Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal.[223] In the private sphere also, it has been alleged that any specific mention of the term "Christmas" or its religious aspects was being increasingly censored, avoided, or discouraged by a number of advertisers and retailers. In response, the American Family Association and other groups have organized boycotts of individual retailers.[224]
rthompson, when you give in to the politically correct an let them have their way to do what they want you may as well just fold it up and join them, they try and push their beliefs down every ones throat and people just go along with it because they are scared of getting sued or hurting someones feelings, i would not take the back seat because they would not for you.
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