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2004-12-09 Home Front: Culture Wars

'Nontheists' Add 'Winter Solstice' Sign to Religious Displays

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Posted by Fred 2004-12-09 10:35:36 PM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 AFAIK Mratin Luther King Jr., Sojourner Truth, St. Francis of Assisi, and Mother Theresa had neither hard hearts nor enslaved minds, Ms. Gaylor.

Posted by Korora 2004-12-09 12:07:50 AM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com] 2004-12-09 12:07:50 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It's a funny statement of faith to make - they can't prove a negative, after all.

Posted by CTD 2004-12-09 12:15:28 AM|| 2004-12-09 12:15:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 AIE! Just noticed the typo; should be Martin

Posted by Korora 2004-12-09 12:26:29 AM|| [http://basementburrow.blogspot.com] 2004-12-09 12:26:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure they put on a heckuva food drive, those atheists. Just because I've never actually heard of it doesn't mean anything. Does it?

Posted by eLarson 2004-12-09 2:14:43 AM|| [http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2004-12-09 2:14:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Tecnhically it is winter solstice. The early Christians moved the celebration to coincide with the pagan celebrations of the same time frame so as to both provide cover of their activities [something about state oppression of Christians back then] and to compete with the other religions. There was a 'who has the most holidays' type of appeal among the general population. A lot of what we connect to Christmas comes from pagan sources. That Yule tree is a prime example.

Posted by Don 2004-12-09 9:25:13 AM|| 2004-12-09 9:25:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 It really doesn't matter whether we're talking about Christmas, Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Diwali, the Roman festival of Saturn or just people who like to have some fun as the days get short and dreary: the "Freedom From Religion Foundation" is not about having freedom FROM religion, it's about spoiling freedom OF religion for the rest of us. It's the Islamofascists without the Islam.

Posted by Tom 2004-12-09 9:47:36 AM|| 2004-12-09 9:47:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Last year Saturnalia, this year Christmas. The proles don't really care who's buying the beer, as long as it's free and there's plenty of it.

Posted by Seafarious 2004-12-09 9:55:01 AM|| 2004-12-09 9:55:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Not wanting to celebrate Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa, whatever.....fine.
But, really, can't they come up with something other than this completely lame sign? I know some pretty creative atheists who could do far better than that.
The only thing more bleak than a Wisconsin winter must be a party with this crowd.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-12-09 11:34:58 AM|| 2004-12-09 11:34:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 The sign's getting to be a regular, I'm afraid. And of all the displays in the Capitol, it is the only one that goes out of its way to insult people.

Posted by James 2004-12-09 12:50:36 PM|| [http://www.idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2004-12-09 12:50:36 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Heard a buffoon froom this group on Laura Ingraham while coming to work this AM. He sounds like has some kind of red hot poker stuck in a very sensitive orafice. There is some sort of hang up he has about religiousity. He claimed to be an ex-clergyman. Probably, in truth, a monk stole his twinkie when he was a kid...

Posted by BigEd 2004-12-09 6:18:07 PM|| 2004-12-09 6:18:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 The entire issue is being handled in a ham-handed and asinine fashion by the ACLU, et al. Utterly and totally unnecessary - and can you say "backlash"? I knew you could. I do NOT favor stripping away American traditions in favor of imaginary equality or, to be plain, insane fears that the constitution has been rent asunder. Bullshit hype and hysteria. Beware this tack - it will blow up in your faces, Libby Loons. The Christian traditions do not threaten me , a no-shit athiest, in any way, shape, or form. In fact, I am offended by the entire show by the LLL, gutlessly hiding behind constitutional verbiage to justify a purge - and it actually buys them nothing and serves no practical purpose.

Stupid morons. Creating dissention where none is necessary - prolly just to make themselves relevant.

Only one "religion" deserves special attention, IMHO, and that's Islam - for it is far more than a mere belief system - it is a human pathogen. It, alone, among "religions" of any size membership, advocates violence in every form, from human mutilation to death, for merely failing to adhere to its incomprehensible and contradictory (convenient, that) screed or opposing its domination.

I would happily vote to abolish the ACLU as a seditionist group if I had the opportunity - they, much like unions, may have served a noble purpose once, but no longer. Using Bill Cosby's bit about the tonsils comes to mind - they fought the good fight, but they lost, and now they're on the other side... they have to come out.

Posted by .com 2004-12-09 7:20:01 PM|| 2004-12-09 7:20:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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