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Subject: RE: BS: Secular vs Religious Public Celebrations From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 23 Dec 04 - 06:57 PM When it comes to heavy proselytising, the 14 posts-so-far nameless GUEST seems pretty adept (or maybe it's a team of fourteen nameless GUESTS who more or less agree about something). There's three issues here - one is the evidence that Christmas is being stolen and distorted by money-grubbing cynics. And that's something that people who actually value Christmas as a Christian celebration, and who don't buy that kind of thing, should be resisting, by the way they celebrate Christmas themselves, and I am sure many of them are doing exactly that. And the second issue is that, for some people, there is an objection to the idea of Christmas as a Christian celebration. And I can't see that as any more worthy of regard than people who object to other types of religious celebrations, just because it's not a religion to which they adhere. And I think that is a kind of bigotry. The more celebrations there are, the better. And the third issue is the claim that there is an oppressive and triumphalist Christo-Americanism on the march here - and if that's true, the way to challenge it is as being anti-American, and anti-Christian. In political terms that kind of movement would amount to a kind of treason, and in religious terms to a kind of blasphemy. |
Subject: RE: BS: Secular vs Religious Public Celebrations From: GUEST Date: 23 Dec 04 - 07:01 PM Lawyer's Christmas card From me (`the wishor`) to you (hereinafter called `the wishee`): Please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stress, non addictive, gender neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, and without limiting the generality of the foregoing, practised within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasions of your choice or secular practises of your choice with respect for the religious/secular traditions of others or their right not to practise religious or secular traditions at all and a financially successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2005, but with the due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures or sects, and having regard to the race, creed, colour, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform, or the dietary choice of the wishee By accepting this greeting you are bound by these terms that: This greeting is subject to further clarification or withdrawal; this greeting is freely transferable provided that no alteration shall be made to the original greeting and that the propriety rights of the wishor are acknowledged; this greeting implies no promise by the wishor to actually implement any of the wishes; this greeting may not be enforceable in certain jurisdictions and/or the restrictions herein may not be binding on certain wishees in certain jurisdictions and is revocable at the sole discretion of the wishor; this greeting is warranted to perform as well as reasonably well may be expected within the usual applications of good tidings, for a period of one year or until the issuance of subsequent holiday greeting, whichever comes first; the wishor warrants this greeting only for the limited replacement of this wish or issuance of a new wish at the sole discretion of the wishor; any references to the Lord, Father Christmas, Our Saviour, or any other festive figures, whether actual or fictitious, dead or alive, shall not imply any endorsement by or from them in respect to this greeting; and all propriety rights in any referenced third-party names and images are hereby acknowledged. |
Subject: RE: BS: Secular vs Religious Public Celebrations From: Peace Date: 24 Dec 04 - 02:59 AM The card is from the following site, lest anyone wish to verify the accuracy of the cut and paste. www.wilk4.com/humor/humorm132.htm |