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Thread #117109 Message #2520120
Posted By: frogprince
19-Dec-08 - 04:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: the true Christmas holiday
Subject: RE: BS: the true Christmas holiday
I just received this "inspirational" poem a couple of days ago: This is the reply I sent back to the source:
It's one thing to be dismayed at the commercialisation of Christmas, and court decisions prohibiting displays on government property because of fuss raised by a handful of extremists. But this "inspirational poem goes to a whole other level. Hanging a Christmas tree upside down is an odd idea that first turned up a few years ago; a Christmas tree isn't really a sacred symbol, and turning it over as a decorating gimmick isn't a sacrilige. But if that was all the further this poem wentt, I wouldn't think anything much about it.
Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton ! At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter. I would challenge the author, or any of you, to produce one word that any one of these individuals has said attacking Christmas or our right to celebrate it as we please, or to show any evidence of "a clatter to eliminate Jesus" at the top, bottom or middle of the senate. This, under the guise of inspiration, is a screed of groundless accusations against people whose political stances the writer disagrees with. Have you heard the words, "You shall not bear false witness?". May you and your families have a blessed, happy, and Christ-centered Christmas. Dean Elkins I could have put it stronger, and more "leftist" than that, but I already was probably wasting words that the sender won't be able to hear.