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Old 12-06-2005, 03:03 PM
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Give that there is no alternate to obtaining the legal benifits, we have no choice.

I just like the pretty lights. My wife is catholic, I'm agnostic but the lights are really cool.
Sure there is. What about civil unions or whatever they call it? I don't recall being in a church for a wedding of mine but I got all the benifits of marriage via a JP

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Old 12-06-2005, 03:06 PM
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I think at least some of you non-believers are trying to create an antiseptic non-believing society. Why are non-believers so disturbed by a public christmas tree or nativity display, or intent on erasing all signs of a religious-based past from monuments and buildings? Couldn't give a rat's ass?
Why would they have a problem with you puting up a nativity, satanic or whatever display on your property? I never encounted someone telling me to take it down because they are offended or whatever. On state owned property, that might be different since we are trying not to have religious stuff sponsored by the state in one way, shape or form. That I can agree with as long as they say everyone has to conform and not just the buddhist, hindus, jews, etc, etc
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:08 PM
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they celibrate festivus...... only strangely on Christmas day.
I look on it as an excuse to buy my buddies goodies and they can return the favor. That way I can say "Oh, look! John gave me a Radix Supercharger! How thoughtful. I have been wanting one of those but never wanted to spend the money on it." Of course, then to be fair, I would buy him the set of heads he always wanted but didn't want to spend his money on.
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:10 PM
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Why would they have a problem with you puting up a nativity, satanic or whatever display on your property? I never encounted someone telling me to take it down because they are offended or whatever. On state owned property, that might be different since we are trying not to have religious stuff sponsored by the state in one way, shape or form. That I can agree with as long as they say everyone has to conform and not just the buddhist, hindus, jews, etc, etc
Well said. I enjoy Christmas displays, they just don't belong on government property.
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Why would they have a problem with you puting up a nativity, satanic or whatever display on your property? I never encounted someone telling me to take it down because they are offended or whatever. On state owned property, that might be different since we are trying not to have religious stuff sponsored by the state in one way, shape or form. That I can agree with as long as they say everyone has to conform and not just the buddhist, hindus, jews, etc, etc
its has everything to do with 85% of the USA population being christian and the country being founded by christians...not aetheists.....
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:15 PM
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My marriage has nothing to do with any sort of religion. Also,Christmas to us is a gathering of friends and loved ones,no religion there either.
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:17 PM
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My marriage has nothing to do with any sort of religion. Also,Christmas to us is a gathering of friends and loved ones,no religion there either.
then why do you celibrate it? CHristmas is still christmas if you celibrate it...a christian holiday..regardless of what you try to call it.
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:19 PM
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then why do you celibrate it? CHristmas is still christmas if you celibrate it...a christian holiday..regardless of what you try to call it.
Probably for the same reason you celebrate Saturnalia.
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:24 PM
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I think at least some of you non-believers are trying to create an antiseptic non-believing society. Why are non-believers so disturbed by a public christmas tree or nativity display, or intent on erasing all signs of a religious-based past from monuments and buildings? Couldn't give a rat's ass?
raymr, no ammount of Christmas decoration makes me upset.Keep all the writings on all the buildings throughout history.BUT,get rid of these TV a-holes wanting to save my soul for a small donation! What a bunch of BS!
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I've been offered some pretty enticing stuff that I have passed on because in my own belief that although it is legal I didn't think it was moral, coincidentally the godless gang jumped all over the opportunities for the sake of holding more "in god we trust" marked pieces of paper in thier pocket.
I'd say the godless people in that instance were also immoral. I think morality has much more of an appeal if it is divorced from God.
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:26 PM
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Well said. I enjoy Christmas displays, they just don't belong on government property.
Simple but concise.
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Probably for the same reason you celebrate Saturnalia.
not any more....My brotehr has proud possesion of that car today....
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:27 PM
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its has everything to do with 85% of the USA population being christian and the country being founded by christians...not aetheists.....
The south was very certain about puting them n1ggers in chains where they belonged too. Should we have let them have slavery in the south since a large percentage of them belived it was ok?
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:28 PM
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Well said. I enjoy Christmas displays, they just don't belong on government property.
I say a couple percent of the population have no business forcing their aetheism on the rest of the population.85% of whom celibrate Christmas and are christian..adn have no legal standing to do so except for a few recently bought liberal judges...legislating illegally from the bench.
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Old 12-06-2005, 03:34 PM
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I say a couple percent of the population have no business forcing their aetheism on the rest of the population.85% of whom celibrate Christmas and are christian..adn have no legal standing to do so except for a few recently bought liberal judges...legislating illegally from the bench.
Crack me up.

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