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Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
On 14-Dec-2006, Mike Hunt postmaster@localhost wrote: Laura Sanchez wrote: Too bad Christianity doesn't return the favor. Excuse me? It's Christians that are the only ones defending Israel and denouncing anti-Semitism. Yet, they can't seem to share the winter holiday season by permitting a one Jewish symbol at the airport. I think she is exaggeratedly discussing a different type of Xian. Susan |
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Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
On 14-Dec-2006, "Sancho Panza" wrote: Hanukah is not a religious holiday. It is not mentioned in sacred texts. Oh, okay - I see what you mean when you say it's not religious. Susan |
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Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
On 14-Dec-2006, James A. Donald wrote: James A. Donald: It is like negotiating with the Palestinians. Mxsmanic Maybe. It can't be like the Israelis, since they refuse to negotiate. They negotiated at Camp David, and look at the results. The lying bigot is also ignoring Wye and Oslo. Not that I'm suprised. Susan |
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Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
On 14-Dec-2006, "Anarcissie" wrote: Sancho Panza wrote: "James A. Donald" wrote in message ... "brique" Nobody was 'sueing against the display of trees'. a rabbi threatened to sue if the airport did not also display symbols of his religion alongside the trees. But they were displaying trees, and not a manger, because the manger is a symbol of the Christian religion, and the trees are not. If the trees are not a religious symbol, why is there so much fervor to display them? Yes, that's the question. Why is it so important? And why are they only brought out to celebrate Jesus' birth? Susan |
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Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
In article "brique" writes:
Cary Kittrell wrote in message ... In article James A. Donald writes: Mike Hunt The issue isn't that the Rabbi wanted the Christmas ornaments removed, but he wanted representation of his religion a this public facility. James A. Donald: Christmas is a universal celebration, No, it is not. The fact that some people have secularized it changes nothing. So you are worried that people might look at the Christmas tree and THINK of a manger? Sure sounds like war on Christmas. Sounds like a bar fight against Christmas -- an isolated incident. A war would be large numbers of complaints or lawsuits against displays which contain no specifically Christian symbolism. Yet this is the only story of this nature I am aware of which did not involve things such a manger, wise men, or other related icons. The joke is that the decorated tree is a pagan symbol, adopted by germans christians, imported into England and popularised by the Victorians and thence spread world-wide. It has no relationship to the christian nativity tale at all. Yeppers, not an authentic Christian symbol, like, say....um, bunnies and eggs at Easter? -- cary |
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Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:02:49 -0800, Laura Sanchez wrote:
Too bad Christianity doesn't return the favor. Excuse me? It's Christians that are the only ones defending Israel and denouncing anti-Semitism. By refusing to add a menorah to the airport display? -- Mark K. Bilbo ------------------------------------------------------------ There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels. |
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Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
Mark K. Bilbo wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:02:49 -0800, Laura Sanchez wrote: Too bad Christianity doesn't return the favor. Excuse me? It's Christians that are the only ones defending Israel and denouncing anti-Semitism. By refusing to add a menorah to the airport display? It's not just some kind of festive decoration. The menorah is the NATIONAL EMBLEM OF THE "STATE" OF ISRAEL Like the eagle is to the US!: http://www.science.co.il/Israel-Emblem.asp I would find it highly offensive to have an 8 foot foreign state emblem displayed by legal imposition in my country. But hey, maybe yanks should know who their real masters are. -- Mark K. Bilbo ------------------------------------------------------------ There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels. |
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Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
Sancho Panza wrote: "James A. Donald" wrote in message ... "James A. Donald" But you guys are trying to suppress even the secular aspects of Christmas - you were suing against the display of Christmas trees, not the display of stables and mangers. You are suing against the stuff that people see in Singapore "Sancho Panza" Pretty fast on the trigger with "you guys." Just what guys do you mean? By "you guys" I mean everyone that gets so enraged by the symbols of Christianity that they cannot even stand symbols that are associated with the symbols of Christianity - I mean commies, militant Jews, radical islamists, Gaia worshippers, the usual. Hindus, animists and ancestor worshippers somehow never have this problem. But you are saying in posts right around this one that it is not a religious symbol. Which is it, religious or not? If it's a symbol of Christianity, as you say here, why should other faiths not be similarly represented? What it actually is is the national icon for the "state" of Israel: http://www.science.co.il/Israel-Emblem.asp So, It's a political symbol for start. |
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Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
Anarcissie wrote: Sancho Panza wrote: "James A. Donald" wrote in message ... "brique" Nobody was 'sueing against the display of trees'. a rabbi threatened to sue if the airport did not also display symbols of his religion alongside the trees. But they were displaying trees, and not a manger, because the manger is a symbol of the Christian religion, and the trees are not. If the trees are not a religious symbol, why is there so much fervor to display them? Yes, that's the question. Why is it so important? It's a tradition for most people. What makes you think everything has to have religious connotations? The menorah is a political symbol too, like the swastika: http://www.science.co.il/Israel-Emblem.asp |
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Jews Strive To Restore Christmas Trees At Seattle Airport
"Laura Sanchez" wrote in message ups.com... God bless the Jewish people. They are always the friends of Christians. Too bad it hasn't always been the other way around. -- Robyn Resident Witchypoo #1557 I think religion is so popular because even the village idiot can feel like Einstein without any effort. - Denis Loubet |
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