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To: Grainne who wrote (98824)	3/20/2005 3:22:39 AM
From: Augustus Gloop	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

The article just says what I believe I said with some fairly pointed examples. There are good Christians and bad ones just as in every religion. I see "Christians" almost every day that I see take the bible (a book of love and a cookbook for a good life) and use it as a weapon to judge others. The same can be said of Muslim extremists who take their religion and turn out terrorists. Since so much of any religious book is open to interpretation it leaves room for abuse. But abuse and sin are in every corner of our globe. Now don't tell anyone....but I've never sinned. I'm keeping it quiet so that I don't get pounded to some wooden beams while wearing a thistle on my head. But all kidding aside - the point I want to make is that while the US and its culture isn't perfect we can't fall into the trap of believe that someone else is because that just isn't true. I don't have a good answer for the school issue. I don't want to impose my religious beliefs on anyone. But here's a thought....Christmas and Christmas break from school is there because the vast majority of our population is Christian. Christmas is the time that Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus. It seems to me a whole lot more people celebrate Christmas and get paid holidays than are willing to admit any sort of Christian beliefs or affiliation. Without that belief or affiliation there is only one other Holiday thats widely accepted around Christmas which is Chanukah. Now if I walked into my employer and said I wanted Chanukah off and paid I'd get both. But if I told him I was really Lutheran I'd get neither. Now go back to that article where it spoke of Happy Holidays. America and the globe didn't just whip up a December holiday period. So if a person isn't Jewish and they aren't Christian then why aren't their kids in school and why are all the businesses closed? Where is the block of atheist teachers and professors that scream so loudly about any public mention or demonstration of religion? There are only two possible answers here. Either they're celebrating (which begs the question WHAT?) or they're taking paid time off from work that they aren't entitled to. The last 2.5 weeks of December were NEVER intended to be free days off. That period of time happens to be when a couple major religions celebrated a significant religious belief/event. So Happy Holidays is a false term because its not a general Holiday like 4th of July. It's a religious period that gives peoples of those religions LEGAL time off. Happy Holidays does not and so non believers are screaming one thing while they enjoy the benefits of cloaking themselves as something they aren't for 2 weeks. Now that the facts are clear I doubt many of the atheists would bitch about Merry Christmas cards if it meant they pissed away their 2 week break and had to work.