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Re: Well, call it what you want, I don't care....I am going to celebrate
Who knows who makes those determinations. It doesn't really matter. You go ahead and celebrate Christmas any way you want! 
posted by
JimmyA
on December 20, 2011 at 1:50 PM
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That's true. Sometimes certain groups of people have no idea how good they have it here. The reason you can express yourself openly is because others made great sacrifices for you to do so. Kudos to your son! 
posted by
JimmyA
on December 20, 2011 at 1:48 PM
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Re: There is a continual soft-core kind of evangelism that goes on
And that's why Ghandi was who he was. Like I wrote, personally, I feel if people exercised a little more of that "Live and let live" policy, certain "things" may not be so bad! It's disheartening sometimes. 
posted by
JimmyA
on December 20, 2011 at 1:29 PM
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Well, call it what you want, I don't care....I am going to celebrate
Christmas as I have all my life. Actually why is it a public Holiday?
posted by
Kabu
on December 19, 2011 at 3:26 PM
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It should be live and let live; but it may never be this way! I think a few people from both sides should be doing what my soldier son will be doing in Afghanistan, patroling the area so that those who may not agree with the holiday celebration do not interfer with the soldiers who are celebrating! Now, they would have a little more danger to deal with other than WORDS! sam 
posted by
sam444
on December 19, 2011 at 9:49 AM
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There is a continual soft-core kind of evangelism that goes on
from a portion of the Christian community that simply can't seem to let non-their-kind-of-Christians go about their own way. And there is that less-deliberate societal pressure that assumes that everyone is Christian, and agrees on all the basic tenets, and so is part of the In Crowd. This is the same one that assumes the Founding Fathers were also part of that Crowd, when in fact, several of them including Jefferson were staunch humanists.
So... this subtle and not-so-subtle pressure wears on the sense of fairplay of other Americans, I suspect. They over-react, I believe.
To want to have a little Christ in Christmas may be a poke at Christians For Holiday-Loot mentality, not necessarily to everyone. For anyone to assume that the winter soltice belongs solely to Christians is ludicrous, besides being historically mistaken. It belonged to everyone else, long before the Christians adopted this time of year to slip their own celebrations in amongst all the others.
Personally, I am with Ghandi, who was asked by an American what he thought of the separation of Church and State in the US. He said, "It's a good idea, you should try it."
posted by
Ciel
on December 19, 2011 at 9:30 AM
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