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To: Lane3 who wrote (90486)	12/13/2004 5:00:56 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 793719

A little more going on under here than I care to get involved with. Guess I'll just move on. Where is it written that reeking religious faith is any more courteous than reeking perfume?

To: Lane3 who wrote (90486)	12/13/2004 6:12:05 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793719

kholt, There was an incident in the Tampa area a couple of days ago, where several of the statues in a manger scene, that was entirely on the property of the church that put them there, were stolen. I seriously hope that you would not condone such vandalism, regardless of your beliefs. I am not a bible thumper, and many Christians chastise me for my belief in evolution, but it would never enter my mind to steal anything from the property of any other belief. Even Islam, and wiccan.

To: Lane3 who wrote (90486)	12/13/2004 7:46:18 PM
From: Valley Girl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793719

Where is it written that reeking religious faith is any more courteous than reeking perfume? I don't see how overhearing one Christian wishing another one Merry Christmas does the listener any harm. I agree that it's discourteous to wish someone Merry Christmas if you're not certain of his or her religious beliefs, and downright disrespectful if you know him or her to be of a non-Christian faith. When in doubt, which is often here in the tech worker melting pot of the SF bay area, I say Happy Holidays. Banners aimed at no one in particular don't trouble me. Because, like, they're not aimed at anyone in particular, so if it doesn't apply to you, why not just ignore it? Anyway, I'm inclined to take any good-spirited holiday greeting I can get! Want to wish me a Happy Hanukah? Why, thank you, same to you! It'd be different if someone were marching around with a placard defaming a religion. Entirely within their rights, and entirely ugly. I seem to recall some "art", shown at taxpayer expense mind you, involving excrement smeared on a painting of Mary. Now, that galls me! Worse still, I'll bet many of the self-proclaimed civil libertarians defending such vulgarities would have no problem loudly condemning a Star of David or a copy of the Koran smeared in excrement. The palpable asymmetry in PC thought further reinforces the alienation Christians feel despite their majority status.