Replying to a message of Jeff Snyder to Bob Ackley:

 JS> On 06/23/09, Jeff Snyder quoted Bob Ackley: Thought Police in Bri.

 BA>> A group of atheists put up a display next to a Christmas display in a
 BA>> Seattle shopping mall.  The display consisted primarily of a sign
 BA>> welcoming readers to the winter solstice (which is December 21st)
 BA>> and pointing out that long ago Christianity co-opted that pagan
 BA>> holiday celebration as their own.  Assuming that the biblical story
 BA>> of Christmas is true, then Jesus could *not* have been born in
 BA>> December and was most likely born in the late spring - right around
 BA>> the time of Easter.  In any case that sign was stolen/destroyed;
 BA>> since the only people who would have been upset by it would be
 BA>> fundamentalist Christians one can safely assume that those were the
 BA>> perpetrators.

 JS> /d14-15

 JS> Bob, that is ridiculous. Those foolish atheists were purposely picking
 JS> a fight, and you know it.

No moreso than Christians have been doing to others this country for decades.
The mall was and is private property, and all 3 displays (there was also a
Jewish menorah) were installed with the permission of the mall's owners.

As I said in the original post, when that one display was vandalized were I
the mall manager the other two displays would have been removed as well.

Christians, and particularly fundamentalist Christians, are notoriously intolerant.

The particular sign did not make any attack upon Christian beliefs as such, I 
don't recall that they were even mentioned.  I'm sure the text of that sign is
available someplace - probably several someplaces - on the Internet.

 JS> They might as well as gone up and poked the Christians in the eye. You
 JS> "safely assume" because that is what you want to believe.

Cui bono?  Some "good" Christians found the sign offensive and
destroyed it, why
would anyone who didn't care about such things perform such an act?  These
"good"
Christians hide in the dark and do things in secret - like bomb abortion clinics and
shoot unarmed people.  BTW, that last is terrorism, pure and simple.

 JS> I will agree, however, that Christmas is a
 JS> Christianized pagan holiday, and that Jesus was born nowhere near
 JS> that time of the year. Even the Bible offers evidence of this point.

I'm glad we can agree on something.

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