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Posted by pancho (Guest) - Monday, December 11 2006, 18:59:20 (CET)
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...at Seattle airport. A Rabi complained that the symbol of the tree in a public space shared by all faiths was "disturbing" to him...so down it went. People will call that "PC run wild"...I call it "chickens coming home to roost". While Christians contiue to identify every act of violence in the Muslim world as a MUSLIM crime..they refuse to accept their two world wars and so many others as CHRISTIAN wars...and CHRISTIAN crimes.

Christians love their identification of themselves and their religion as one of peace and love. They find if difficult to understand how the rest of us don't see it that way...that while they are consoled by trotting out the Christians who got it "right"..we have been damaged by the vast majority who got it wrong!

It's not as easy for the rest of us to view the religion as a benign one when we see the death and desruction the followers of this religion continue to bring to the rest of us. I can definitely see good reason why Jews in particular would be upset at the sight of a Christmas tree...or a cross.

A Christian convent wished to set up shop in front of Aushcwitz some years back with a prominant cross on display...you know, to "pray" for the souls etc. They were stopped when Jews around the world said this would be a sacrilege to the memory of all of those killed BY Christianity and its cross.

You have to travel in the shoes of another to understand his or her point of view..and if you DON'T care about the point of view of other's...you will lose....simple as that. Tyranny is ALWAYS defeated...that inculdes Christian tyranny.

There's no reason to place Christian symbols in common areas where other's, often the victims of that religion, congregate...there's no need to continually remind them of who did what to whom. I like Christmas trees...always had one...but it has nothing to do with Jesus...as Tiglath and Maggie told us...it's a pagan celebration and the good thing about being pagan today is that NO ONE has an axe to grind with you...we pagans never ran a death camp like Auschwitz...Christians did that.

And while we're at it...on the subject of how people can dissociate their cherished symbols from what those symbols actually represent...what about the cross? How did an instrument of execution and toture ever become a symbol for a religion of peace and love? Even after the Romans turned Christian they continued crucifying criminals...

Would the inappropriateness of such a symbol become more obvious if Jesus had been hanged? Or shot to death by a firing squad? Would a golden hangman's noose on a chain, or a silver carbine rifle hanging from the necks of millions of people appear as "sweet"? What if Jesus had been put to death with a lethal injection? Might the gruesomeness of this symbol be more evident if little children wore a hypodermic syringe round their necks...or knelt down before an image of Jesus, strapped to a gurney instead of the cross, with a syringe in his veins? Would that be the best symbol of a religion of love and peace...to show the world? A world suffering the ravages of Christians gone wild?

Christmas trees ARE pretty...as trees or pagan symbols...I don't think any Jew denies that...but this pagan symbol has been co-opted by Christianity...and Christianity has murdered millions of innocent people, while displaying it's polite facade for photo ops...the VICTIMS aren't fooled...and they have every right not to be reminded of the price they paid as a result of actions taken by people who put up Christmas trees...in fact, it could be seen as a reminder and WARNING!

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