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Re: The meaning of Christmas (was Re: Christmas Train update
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sat, 12 Dec 1998 22:19:40 GMT
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cjc@newsguy.AVOIDSPAMcom
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Steve Berry <steveb@codenet.net> wrote:
> No offense, but could you be taking Larry's side on this because he comes
> close to your own ideological stance on this issue? Or, is it because, as you
> say, footnoting something divisive in a Trains newsgroup is o.k.?
I'm certainly not an atheist, but if I were to decide to choose
"sides" in this very small, very insignificant disagreement, I would
have to side with him.
Little footnotes at the end of a message just aren't that big a deal,
especially worded the way he words them. It's not like he wrote:
(1) I'm building a Christmas train because Christmas is fun, but I
don't celebrate Christmas for the reasons Christians do. In fact, I
hereby declare all Christians idiots and hypocrites - so there.
He said he did it because it was fun, not because of Christ.
A little off-color? To some, maybe. Mostly irrelevant? To me,
certainly. You people can worship cobblers or carpenters, shoes or
doorframes, for all I care. And I mean ALL you people, not just
Christians. I guess when I expire and head upstairs God might let me
know I should have been a little more concerned with making sure
people believe what I know in my heart is right, but I'm pretty sure
he'll forgive me that and all the other failings I have.
I'm not a big fan of the oft-used PC term "tolerance", but with
respect to the arguments outspoken athiests and outspoken Christians
usually get into, I'd say both groups need a lot more of it.
I'm rambling, though. Gee, was it really *that* divisive? Didn't
bother me any. Nor would it bother me if I saw you post one that
said:
(1) Renounce the overly commercialized nonsense that our society has
attached to Christmas and celebrate it for the real reason - Christ's
birth and our salvation.
Hell, I could post that. I've said that or something like it at least
2 or 3 times this past week.
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