Well, I will make a feeble attempt to at least answer your post. It is SO COLD right now, even though the sun is shining, that I drank a little glass of Sicilian dry marsala just to stay a tiny bit warmer, so I am not in top form for debating or anything. I guess I should be chasing a chicken around the backyard with a hatchet and cooking up some chicken marsala for Mr. Grainne, but since we don't eat chicken anymore, I'll just sit here and get my exercise drinking and typing instead.
Was it not you who was arguing for Christian Christmas displays in schools, and carols being sung there, and saying that only a very small percentage of Americans were not Christian? That is why I posted the article about the tree and the menorah at the Sacramento capitol--I thought you would find it interesting.
Now what I got from the article is two things. First, like I think I was telling you, Christmas trees (and most of the symbols we associate with Christmas) are not actually Christian--they are pagan. So does what some of us want to display even represent what people think it does? Not really. I always enjoy good discussions about pagan symbols and the way the Christians glommed on to them.
Then the second thing in the article is that so many Americans seem to be so confused about what is, or is not, okay to decorate public places with these days, that it is almost comical. Well, it would be comical--menorah in, menorah out, do the hokey pokey--if so many people weren't being offended each time. That was my original argument against religious symbols of any kind in public places--they always manage to offend someone, and even homeless people in America have enough space in their shopping cart to stick in a little display of something that is special to them, and for goodness sake most of us have houses or even palatial estates and can put nativity scenes everywhere that we own, so why not just do it that way? |
