Replying to a message of Jeff Snyder to Bob Ackley:

 JS> On 05/06/09, Jeff Snyder quoted Bob Ackley: Thought Police in Bri.

 BA>> I was until one or more of them destroyed a display that disagreed
 BA>> with their own.  If they aren't going to respect other peoples'
 BA>> beliefs and rights why  should anybody else respect theirs?

 JS> Obviously, I am not familiar with the event in question, and I
 JS> likewise don't know who specifically was behind the incident.

A group of atheists put up a display next to a Christmas display in a Seattle
shopping mall.  The display consisted primarily of a sign welcoming readers
to the winter solstice (which is December 21st) and pointing out that long
ago Christianity co-opted that pagan holiday celebration as their own.

Assuming that the biblical story of Christmas is true, then Jesus could *not* have
been born in December and was most likely born in the late spring - right around
the time of Easter.  In any case that sign was stolen/destroyed; since the only
people who would have been upset by it would be fundamentalist Christians one
can safely assume that those were the perpetrators.

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