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Posted by The Other Kim on December 10, 2007, 5:17 pm
How about a knitted Flying Spaghetti Monster???
http://lunastrixae.blogspot.com/2006/01/fsm-sighted.html
The Other Kim
kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom
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Posted by Taueret on December 10, 2007, 5:59 pm
I LOVE IT!
Taueret
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NSW, Australia
http://taueret.typepad.com
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> How about a knitted Flying Spaghetti Monster???
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Posted by Mary Fisher on December 11, 2007, 6:13 am
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> How about a knitted Flying Spaghetti Monster???
> http://lunastrixae.blogspot.com/2006/01/fsm-sighted.html
> The Other Kim
> kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom
That's fun.
But can someone tell me why the word 'Christmas' is never said or written?
I could be wrong of course (it has been known!) but that tree looked like a
Christmas tree and the upcoming holiday is surely the Christmas holiday?
Mary
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Posted by enigma on December 11, 2007, 9:23 am
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>> How about a knitted Flying Spaghetti Monster???
>> http://lunastrixae.blogspot.com/2006/01/fsm-sighted.html
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> That's fun.
>
> But can someone tell me why the word 'Christmas' is never
> said or written?
because it's an American site & Americans are oh-so-
politically-correct about not favoring one religion over
another. it might offend someone to mention Christmas, despite
the fact that it has become a pretty much totally secular
holiday here.
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> I could be wrong of course (it has been known!) but that
> tree looked like a Christmas tree and the upcoming holiday
> is surely the Christmas holiday?
apparently it escapes the notice of the politically correct
that most religions have some sort of holiday around the
winter solstice... usually involving lights, or the return of
the sunlight. i really don't understand how mentioning the
name of the holiday you celebrate at this time of year could
or would offend others, or if it does, why that should bother
one. it is, after all, the offendee's problem, not yours. some
people take offense at the weirdest things.
lee
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Posted by The Other Kim on December 11, 2007, 10:26 am
Lee wrote:
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>>> How about a knitted Flying Spaghetti Monster???
>>> http://lunastrixae.blogspot.com/2006/01/fsm-sighted.html
>> That's fun.
>> But can someone tell me why the word 'Christmas' is never
>> said or written?
> because it's an American site & Americans are oh-so-
> politically-correct about not favoring one religion over
> another. it might offend someone to mention Christmas, despite
> the fact that it has become a pretty much totally secular
> holiday here.
Yes, it's pretty much become a secular holiday, but the fact is that
there are people here, like me and my family, who don't celebrate
Christmas even in a secular way. Sure, I have a tree, but I celebrate
Solstice, which always happens before Christmas. The rest of my family
is Jewish, and Hanukkah ends tomorrow. No Christmas here.
I have no issue if someone wants to talk about Christmas on their
website; it's theirs, they can talk about whatever they want. I have,
however, started responding to workers in grocery stores who with me a
"Merry Christmas" with "Glad Yule". I think it's rather arrogant to
just assume that everyone acknowledges Christmas. When I was a kid all
stores wished everyone "Happy Holidays" and no one got all offended by
that.
Then you have people like Bill O'Reilly who made up this "war on
Christmas" a few years ago, mostly to bash folks like the ACLU who have
rightly brought court cases against municipalities who put up religious
Christmas displays without allowing other religions to have their
displays.
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>> I could be wrong of course (it has been known!) but that
>> tree looked like a Christmas tree and the upcoming holiday
>> is surely the Christmas holiday?
> apparently it escapes the notice of the politically correct
> that most religions have some sort of holiday around the
> winter solstice... usually involving lights, or the return of
> the sunlight.
And Christmas was put there to counteract the pagan celebrations.
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> i really don't understand how mentioning the
> name of the holiday you celebrate at this time of year could > or
> would offend others, or if it does, why that should bother
> one. it is, after all, the offendee's problem, not yours. some
> people take offense at the weirdest things.
> lee
Well, since I acknowledged my paganism some 7 years ago I've become more
aware of which stores near me understand that Christmas isn't the only
holiday at this time of year, and I tend to avoid those who only promote
Christmas. Call me petty, but it's my money and I'll spend it where I
please.
Why does every store have to acknowledge Christmas at the exclusion of
others? Besides, it wasn't non-Christians who fired the first shot in
the so-called "war on Christmas". It was Christians who threatened to
boycott stores because they dared to say "Happy Holidays". What you're
seeing from non-Christians is called backlash. These Christians groups,
like Focus on the Family - and maybe they should focus on their own
highly dysfunctional families instead of others' - are doing their
damnedest to shove their religion at everyone, and they get upset when
the Constitution is shoved in their faces in response. Too bad. We
have a secular government, with no mention of God in the Constitution -
a "Creator" is mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, but that's
not the foundational document of this country - and John Adams signed
the Treaty of Tripoli, which clearly states that this country is in no
way a Christian nation; this matters because the Constitution states
that any treaties that have been signed and ratified become supreme law
of the land.
Offense is in the eye of the beholder, this is true; however, maybe
there's a reason for the offense people take at some things. This is
just the latest.
The Other Kim
kimagreenfieldatyahoodotcom
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