heck we are a CHRISTIAN nation.. for the WHITE HOUSE is a symbol of America and it is done up in christmas decorations not a dradle and candles, made up kwanza relics, nor ram-a-dong ( or whatever its called) crap.
2006-12-27 06:11:26 · 7 answers · asked by liketaknow 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
cuz they are a bunch of Scrooges and Grinches.
I agree with you on a Christian nation too. We should celebrate it the Christian way.
2006-12-27 06:14:11 · answer #1 · answered by Cuddly Lez 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First, why are you so disrespectful of others' beliefs?
Please reference the following quotes from our Founding Fathers.
John Adams
Adams signed the Treaty of Tripoli (June 7, 1797). Article 11 states:
“The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.”
From a letter to Charles Cushing (October 19, 1756):
“Twenty times in the course of my late reading, have I been upon the point of breaking out, ‘this would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.’”
Thomas Jefferson
From Jefferson’s biography:
“...an amendment was proposed by inserting the words, ‘Jesus Christ...the holy author of our religion,’ which was rejected ‘By a great majority in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and the Mohammedan, the Hindoo and the Infidel of every denomination.’”
Jefferson’s “The Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom”:
“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions, more than on our opinions in physics and geometry. . . .”
Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia (Query 17, “Religion”):
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. . . .”
Jefferson’s letter to John Adams, April 11, 1823:
“The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”
James Madison
James Madison
Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments:
“Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise....During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.”
Additional quote from James Madison:
“Religion and government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.”
Thomas Paine
From The Age of Reason:
“What is it the Bible teaches us? — rapine, cruelty, and murder.”
From The Age of Reason:
“Loving of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has beside no meaning....Those who preach the doctrine of loving their enemies are in general the greatest prosecutors, and they act consistently by so doing; for the doctrine is hypocritical, and it is natural that hypocrisy should act the reverse of what it preaches.”
2006-12-27 06:20:23 · answer #2 · answered by tristanrobin 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not a christian nation, we are a secular democracy. Please don't even suggest that the US is a theocracy!
Christmas is nonsecular and does not belong in public buildings.At home, in Church, all well and good, but the concept of separation of church and state should be widened to include religious celebration in secular governments.
If you want your child to celebrate religion in school send that child to a religious school
2006-12-27 06:23:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because not everyone is religious and it may offend some people so the school rather not get mixed up in these matters. They just stick to educational school functions.
2006-12-27 06:53:45 · answer #4 · answered by justmmez 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of different denominations of people don't believe in it and if they have it in schools those people would say its offensive to their religion.Which could cause problems that could easily be avoided by not having Christmas in school
2006-12-27 06:22:55 · answer #5 · answered by Mrs.Beckford 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are not a christian nation we are a nation that welcomes everyone from around the world including their religion. the US does not have an official religion it is IN THE CONSTITUTION. read it.
send your kid to a christian school if you want christmas.
2006-12-27 06:14:52 · answer #6 · answered by cadillacrazy 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Hey, be more sensitive...
...like our public schools.
It's not really a christian nation anymore, they've taken out prayer, the 10 Commandments from the courts and they're working on taking God out of the Pledge of Allegiance.
2006-12-27 06:14:28 · answer #7 · answered by Sgt. Pepper 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋