This "war on Christmas" garbage has got to stop. Seriously, is the average fundamentalist's faith so easily broken that any dissent will cause it to disappear? Does everyone have to raise your god above all others in your presence at all times? Should everyone be made to believe as you do?
And if so, how are you different than, say, the Taliban?
2007-12-15 04:12:34 · 12 answers · asked by Schmorgen 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Agent Zer0: A fir tree, I think. Some kind of evergreen, anyway. Does your entire system of belief evaporate if it isn't a Christmas tree?
2007-12-15 04:24:02 · update #1
I am not a Christian or have a religious bone in my body, But the answer to your question is easy.
Christians feel that their religious practices are attacted while other religions in america dont have the same problems.
The reason they jump at every single time someone or some group does this is the old adage Give an inch they will take a mile. Every time they ban something christian from being done they set up legal precidence to do it again.
I am an agnostic and to be hosnest I find it so silly that people make such an effort to stamp out christian practices. They act all offended over them. I dont beleive in the boogeyman so I spend no time trying to cast him out of my closet in my bedroom, The same I dont beleive in god so I spend no time trying to stop him or his image from being displayed.
As an Agnostic I expect others to respect my right to believe that way, but in the same way I must respect their right to beleive the way they do and against popular opinion amongst unbeleivers a tree in the local mall doesnt interfere with my not beleiving in god.
Just my opinion
2007-12-15 04:29:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is especially interesting that most won't even admit that Christmas is actually a pagan holiday that was adopted by early Christianity. The Bible is supposed to be the final word on everything and there is not one mention of Christmas in the bible.
BTW that Christmas tree is actually a pagan tradition.
2007-12-18 03:14:44 · answer #2 · answered by beren 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christ has been gone for over 2000yrs and there is still billions of Christians world wide. How is the war on Christmas a reinforcement of faith. Comparing Christians to the Taliban shows your ignorance.
2007-12-18 03:14:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Allowing a religion the same rights others have, is hardly reinforcement. Like it or not it is a basis for this country and always has been. Little by little everything has been eroded away and if you know anything about the process of taking rights away it's done a piece at a time under the guise of something good. If you have a cookie and you are to share.....taking the cookie from you and giving it all to someone else is not sharing. That is what I see happening. Oh it's OK to learn about Muslims which culture and religion is inseparable, but there can't be a moment of silence because Gods knows they're praying.
Take a holiday and all it's symbols and call it something different to satisfy someone who doesn't like the holiday. There are alot of holidays others celebrate that I don't but I'm not going to block their right to have them or call them something else just because I don't celebrate them.
I remember when all our businesses closed on Sunday because of Christian church beliefs. Enough people weren't Christians and they wanted the stores open. Fine....the stores opened. Strange thing though....wasn't non-Christians doing the work on those days. It made Christians compromise their moral beliefs to please a few. With as many relegions out there not once have I ever had a non-Christian offer to work for me so I could celebrate my relegion. Never was my beliefs even taken into consideration when they were making out a schedual or anything else. Many have lost jobs because out of 7 days a week, 24 hours in a day.....they asked to not be schedualed Sunday mornings, Christmas and Easter. Yet people are demanding a workplace where multiple times a day they are allowed extended prayer periods, bathrooms re-done to accomodate their rituals and who knows what else down the pike. Or all together dis-allowing any relegious practice. I mean there has be some compromise if we are all to live together. But totally trying to wipe out and re-name one relegious practice while others do as they please isn't right either.
The Christians have compromised about all they can and there comes a time when enough is enough. Whether it's for another relegion or non-believers. I bet there are a ton of athiests and people of other relegions who are more than happy to run to the bank with their extra pay or holiday bonus because of a "Christian" holiday they don't celebrate. I bet they are standing in line and fighting for the "sales" and tapping in on the benefits of those holidays. I could care less what you believe. Just shut-up and bah-humbug your way home and leave me alone. I'm tolerating a whole lot of things on a daily basis I don't agree with. I hate strip clubs and porno and all that scene brings. It's in my face on TV and everywhere else I turn. I'm told, don't drive down the red-light district, change the channel, don't go to that business. OK....same rules apply for others then. Tolerance doesn't mean you have to agree or join in or change your beliefs. It means you put up with it because in turn somebody is putting up with something you do.
I totally agree with those who have pointed out that alot of the Christmas holiday practices are not at it's core a Christian belief. They are Pagen. They adopted alot of those things in order to mesh in and adapt with the celebrations of the times and the people of the times. Sunday isn't really the sabbath either, it's Saturday. They did what they had to do to accomodate and fit in with all the different practices of different periods in time. Probably to the point many don't even know why they do what they do anymore. The water has been so muddied with adaptations and concessions. Guess that's why so many are standing harder and firmer now. We've about accomodated, adjusted and adapted ourselves out of existance. That's why this country was founded.....so it wouldn't happen again. Freedom of relegion....not from it.
2007-12-18 03:14:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Libs often attack Christmas at every turn.
Let me ask you this... why call the Christmas tree a "holiday tree?" What kind of tree is put up during the winter months? Life as a lib must suck because they suck the life out of a good thing
2007-12-18 03:14:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately I feel that American Christmas has little to do with religion it is more about consumerism, materialism and greed that is perpetuated on Americans by the banks, retailers and credit card companies. Most "Christians" know very little about their religion other than Easter and Christmas.
2007-12-18 03:14:44 · answer #6 · answered by David F 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People who call themselves 'christians' and celebrate a pagan holiday? Hmmm...plus the fact that lots of non-believers love to celebrate it? Get real. It's all a bunch of hokum. Merchants, presents and money are the reason for the season.
2007-12-18 03:14:44 · answer #7 · answered by Constitution 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When it is so difficult to believe in something it is very difficult to withstand any criticism. Why do I believe in God? Because the bible tells me it is true. Why do I believe the bible? Because it is the word of God. I have to just have faith to believe.
2007-12-18 03:14:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they are competing with the IRS for the pocket change of America
2007-12-18 03:14:44 · answer #9 · answered by whirling W dervish 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All alcolytes have to have their devil to persecute, without it, they have no direction, and wouldn't be easily controlled by their cult leaders.
2007-12-18 03:14:44 · answer #10 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋