Re: OT: It's a Christmas tree daggone it!

lady_freedom25@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I just think that it's a shame that some of us are finding ourselves
wondering how much longer we will have the right---no---the freedom of
speach to be able to say what we want. I have never tried to throw my
religion at someone, and make them believe exactly as I do. Now if
someone wants to know, then I will tell them what I know, but
otherwise, I just let it be, as long as they leave me be. What I'm
getting at is....we don't MAKE anyone say "under God" or anything else
that they don't want to say, but they are making it so that we will not
be allowed to say it either. I think that is unfair. -Just my two cents

Oh, bull***. Say whatever you want. Be prepared for the consequences. The freedoms all still exist. But freedom doesn't mean that anyone can say anything, anytime, to anyone - never have. No one is abridging your right to speak. People are making choices about what they will say, and you don't like their choices. Hard cheese. It's their right to do so, same as for you.

The real issue is that you want others to say things you want them to say, in ways you want them said, in settings you want to suit you. And then you whine like this when it doesn't happen. And try to make it into some giant issue that crumbles with the slightest scrutiny.

All this angst and gnashing of teeth because somebody has decided to say "Happy holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." What a generous portion of crap.

After all the years of complaining that the Christmas season is too commercial, assholes like Bill O'Reilly now want us all to make sure to keep Jesus in retail sales. The contradiction is stunning.

Religion is ostensibly a private and personal thing; between you and your god and nobody else. You want it to be a public spectacle, observed your way by everybody. Your phony strawman about freedoms is even more nonsensical and hypocritical than your desire for everyone to talk to you your way. No freedoms of speech have been affected at all. You want to say "Merry Christmas," go right ahead.

This persecuted minority horse*** from shirt-sleeve, streetcorner Christians gets very old very fast. Looking for sympathy for their victimhood. The vast preponderance of the American population says they're Christian. Peddle that sad, sad crap someplace else about loss of freedoms. You obviously can't see what freedom really means. It means that *everybody* has the choice to do as they please.

Your online handle is a parody of itself.

Pastorio
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