A C----mas Story
on 12/21/2006 at 12:47 PM
I grew up in a Los Angeles neighborhood where a mixed Anglo/Jewish neighborhood butted up to a Mexican neighborhood and a Japanese neighborhood. While each of us had our own identity and culture, we also respected each other and enjoyed what each group brought to the table. We were Americans. It was normal in my elementary school for us to sing Christmas Carols and Chanuka songs. No one was offended and we all learned good things. In the spring, we celebrated Cinco de Mayo and then there was the Oban festival also. This politically correct world we’re living in looks a lot poorer than the rich diversity that I grew up in.
A short note to any liberals or progressives who happen to read this - come on - explain how your program is better than what I grew up with. Why is it better to shut down Nativity scenes and Menorahs then to enjoy the blessings that each group brings to our culture?
Yes, Dr. Jeff you are beginning to see the reality to the left/pc World - one glowball world of peace love and understanding has the huge problem of what language, what religion, what money, etc and then Who decides. For a brief while we get beige, pale sameness until someone from the fringe speaks up and then and then. It all explodes as each one wants to be the one and what happens - usually war to end the clamoring (especially after the oh, so peaceful and non-violent pc police turn out to be every bit as vicious and nasty as any despot tyrant known in history) and so it goes.
I see the above story as a pointed attempt to silence Christianity. Many reasons, but chief among it is that Christianity is the basis for America - it’s values, it’s morals, it’s core beliefs. Destroy Christianity and you are a long way toward destroying America.
Take a look at the ‘view’ of Christianity propagated now days - actually taken from the old Testament (Judism) and called hard line, unforgiving and rigid. That is not Christianity as I was taught it or know it. . . but then if you don’t know about religion, how can you be expected to depict it correctly.
As Skipper said, not much has changed in 2000 years . . . I guess it is the way it used to be.
Golly, I am so tired of this nonsense. Every damned year, in every city and town, over and over and over. Shut the !@%* up already. Moronic rigid absolutist asshats.
How do you get “it’s the government’s duty to deny religion, especially Christianity” from “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion” which means nothing more and nothing less than that the federal government will not force an official religion on the people.
Every town park in America should have a creche scene and a Menorah up this time of the year. This is our heritage, this is who we are. Proud of it and IN YOUR FACE. And those parks should also have two giant slabs of granite displayed all year long: one carved with the Bill of Rights, the other carved with the Ten Commandments.
I’m done being nice. I’ve turned the other cheek long enough. Time to take a lesson from Stuck Mojo; it’s Open Season on the enemies of America.
Wardmama, I actually still see myself as a liberal. The questions of language and customs that you raise, to me are the reason for different States of the Union and different countries around the world. Mexico has different traditions and language than Russia. New York has different laws and customs than Nevada. The United States was founded squarely on Judeo/Christian ethics and and our language is English. If someone doesn’t like that, they are free to go where the ethics and language suit them. Our approach to life seems to be a lot more successful than anything that’s been tried anywhere else in the world. That how we became the richest, most powerful nation on the planet. Why change what works?
I’m just in total disagreement with the current crop of Neofascists that have taken the Liberal name and dragged it in the mud. I date back to when liberal meant liberal. That does not include any endorsement of victimhood, state compulsion of the individual, rewriting history, denying the greatness of my American heritage, being un-American, gun control, hating myself or apologizing for myself because I’m a white, male, heterosexual or any of the other crap that I hear coming from virtually all Democrats and even some Republicans.
I believe in real diversity. The kind of diversity that I grew up with. The kind of diversity where you understand that your neighbors can be different from you and still be cool. Not a government mandated, bean counted, court supervised sham.
I believe that if someone is good enough to do a job, they should have the opportunity to get that job, regardless of race, religion, or gender. Please note that the key qualifier is that the person must be qualified for the job. Affirmative action is just another kind of bigotry. A job should go to the person best qualified to do it. To chose a black man for a job over a white man, based solely on skin color is just as much bigotry as choosing the white man over the black man because he is white.
I believe in the G-d of my understanding and pray to him regularly. So do you. If learning about your faith can help enlighten me, wonderful. If learning about my faith can help enlighten you, equally wonderful. However, no one has any business telling either of us how to believe. As far as public display of faith is concerned, I believe that it should be limited by good manners, respect for others and general modesty. These are not things that can be legislated.
So, the truly crazy part is that my liberal beliefs of 40 years ago, seem to qualify me to be a conservative today.
