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Post by RHDraneyChristmas songs with "Jesus" excluded from winter concert >
By Karina Bolster NBC 12, nbc12.com October 10, 2018 >
Midlothian, VA (WWBT) -- A Chesterfield parent is concerned
after he was told students would not be singing any
Christmas songs with the word "Jesus" in them at upcoming
concerts.
David Allen said he found out about the situation last week
from his child who attends Robious Middle School.
I hope he's happy with his middle-schooler doing "Baby
it's Cold Outside"....r
"Jesus" is in quotes, and there is good Christmas music
that doesn't mention him by name. Presumably they can
still sing "Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the
Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace".
(Several ngs eliminated) -- And how about Adeste Fideles?
An example of "hysteria" on both sides.
I went to high school with a bunch of ultra right-wingers,
some of whom are Friends on Facebook.
One of them recently posted a meme, "It's not 'Happy
Holidays'; it's 'Merry Christmas', to which I posted,
"What's wrong with both?"
"Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you!"
No comments except one from a woman: "I hope it will
always be 'Merry Christmas'.
What is wrong with these people? It is frightening.
The terrorist mission of Jesus stated in
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came
not so send peace, but a sword.
"For I am come to set a man at variance against his father,
and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in
law against her mother in law.
"And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
-- Matthew 10:34-36.
The Christian Edict To Exterminate Non-Christians
"Unbelievers deserve not only to be separated from the
Church, but also to be exterminated from the World by
death." -- Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologica, 1271).
Christian civilization, by virtue of its exclusivist heresy
and monotheism, became the self justifying destroyer of all
non Christian culture.
http://www.hiddenfromhistory.org/
http://www.towahkon.org/endofimperialism.html
http://divineirony.tumblr.com/post/34901578902/unbelievers-deserve-not-only-to-be-separated-from
"[Saint Thomas] Aquinas is held in the Catholic Church to
be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood.
The works for which he is best known are the Summa
Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. One of the 33
Doctors of the Church, he is considered the Church's
greatest theologian and philosopher. Pope Benedict XV
declared: The Church has declared Thomas doctrine to be her
own."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_aquinas
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[ Jesus supported Jewish Law which supports killing of
[ disobedient children and male POWs, raping and enslaving
[ female captives
[
[ Anyone converting to Christianity from Hinduism needs a
[ psychiatric examination.
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[ From a knowledge-based religion like Hinduism to a faith-
[ based absurdity like Christianity is a step backwards.
[
[ Only bribes or violence can get this accomplished.
[
[ Jesus supported Jewish Law, which requires the killing of
[ disobedient children, killing of male POWs, and rape and
[ enslavement of women and children captives. Jesus says
[
[ "It is easier for Heaven and Earth to pass away than for
[ the smallest part of the letter of the law to become
[ invalid." (Luke 16:17)
[
[ The Evil Bible
[ http://www.evilbible.com
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[ Crusade Watch, Evangelism Watch and Conversion Watch
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[ http://www.christianaggression.org
[ http://www.crusadewatch.org
[
[ War is being waged against Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism
[ and Sikhism. The aggressors will not stop. All inter-
[ faith dialogues are for the benefit of the aggressors.
[ The sooner Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs understand
[ this, the better for them.
[
[ The hate-filled ideology of Christian Missionaries and
[
[ "Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism and other non-
[ Christian religions must be destroyed. Hindus,
[ Buddhists,Jains, Sikhs and other non-Christians must be
[ converted to Christianity."
[
[
[ "Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place
[ worse than they found it."
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[ "Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle
[ the Hindu brown for the Christian riles and the Hindu
[ smiles and weareth the Christian down; and the end of the
[ fight is a tombstone while with the name of the late
[ deceased and the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here who
[ tried to hustle the east".
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Post by Dr. Jai MaharajHitler Was a Christian
http://www.evilbible.com/evil-bible-home-page/hitler-was-a-christian/
Dhanyavaad for your post, fanabba jee!
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi Om Shanti
Let's see: Dec. 25 was originally a Pagan holiday.
Jesus was born some other day. And Santa? A U.S.
invention. 'C' for Christmas, or cash
By Leonard Peikoff
The Phladelphia Inquirer
Saturday, December 25, 1999
Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human
ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of
life. Yet all of these are castigated as "materialistic."
The real meaning of the holiday, we are told, is assorted
Nativity tales and altruist injunctions that no one takes
seriously. In fact, Christmas as we celebrate it today is
a 19th-century American invention. The freedom and
prosperity of post-Civil War America created the happiest
nation in history.
The result was the desire to celebrate, to revel in the
goods and pleasures of life on earth. Christmas (which
was not a federal holiday until 1870) became the leading
American outlet for this feeling.
People have long celebrated the winter solstice as the
time when the days begin to lengthen, indicating the
earth's return to life. The ancient Romans feasted and
reveled during the festival of Saturnalia. Early
Christians condemned these Roman celebrations. The
Christians were waiting for the end of the world and had
only scorn for earthly pleasures.
By the fourth century, the pagans were worshipping the
god of the sun on Dec. 25, and the Christians came to a
decision: If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. They claimed
(contrary to accepted tradition) that the date was Jesus'
birthday, and they usurped the solstice holiday for their
Church.
Even after the Christians stole Christmas, they were
ambivalent about it. The holiday was inherently a pro-
life festival of earthly renewal, but the Christians
preached renunciation, sacrifice, and concern for the
next world, not this one.
Then came the major developments of 19th-century
capitalism - industrialization, urbanization, the triumph
of science - all of it leading to easy transportation,
efficient mail delivery, the widespread publishing of
books and magazines, inventions making life comfortable
and exciting, and the rise of entrepreneurs who
understood that the way to make a profit was to produce
something good and sell it to a mass market.
For the first time, the giving of gifts became a major
feature of Christmas. Thanks to capitalism, there was
enough wealth to make gifts possible, a great productive
apparatus to advertise them and make them available
cheaply, and a country so content that men wanted to
reach out to their friends and express their enjoyment of
life. The whole country took with glee to giving gifts on
an unprecedented scale.
Santa Claus is a thoroughly American invention. There was
a feeble holiday once connected to a St. Nicholas (on
Dec. 5). In 1822, an American named Clement Clarke Moore
wrote a poem about a visit from St. Nick. It was Moore
(and a few other New Yorkers) who invented St. Nick's
physical appearance and personality and came up with the
idea that Santa travels on Christmas Eve in a sleigh
pulled by reindeer, comes down the chimney, stuffs toys
in good children's stockings, then goes back to the North
Pole.
Of course, some denounced Santa as the Antichrist,
because he had succeeded in pushing Jesus to the
background.
Furthermore, Santa implicitly rejected the whole
Christian ethic. He did not denounce the rich and demand
that they give everything to the poor. On the contrary,
he gave gifts to rich and poor children alike.
Nor is Santa a champion of Christian mercy or
unconditional love. No, he is for justice - giving only
to good children, not bad ones.
All the best customs of Christmas - from carols to the
tree to spectacular decorations - have their roots in
pagan ideas and practices. And these customs have been
greatly amplified by American culture as the product of
reason, science, business, worldliness, egoism (i.e., the
pursuit of happiness).
America's tragedy is that its intellectual leaders have
typically tried to replace happiness with guilt by
insisting that the spiritual meaning of Christmas is
religion and self-sacrifice for Tiny Tim or his
equivalent.
The spiritual must start with recognizing reality: Life
requires reason, selfishness, capitalism. Those things
are what Christmas should celebrate - and, really,
beneath all the pretense, they are what Christmas
celebrates.
It is time to take the Christ out of Christmas and turn
the holiday into a guiltlessly egoistic, pro-reason,
this-worldly, commercial celebration.
Leonard Peikoff, who founded the Ayn Rand Institute, is
the foremost authority on objectivism, the philosophy of
Ayn Rand.
Source - http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/99/Dec/25/opinion/PEIKOFF25.htm
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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