“Human Rights Day”? Can’t tell you.

What I can tell you about though is the holiday that my brother and I came up with called “Marshall Law Day”. Now THAT will have everyone celebrating 4th of july again, let me tell you.

RetFireman said:
i know, there are a great many Evangelists that are probably going to try and come through the computer screens at that thought, but it is true. A great many holidays are based on the Pagan calendars as are the rituals It was done that way in order to make conversions easier for them.

Your funny, I could’nt get my fat ars through the screen if I tried, I agree and I’m a Pedestrian, but if you take time to study it many thing’s in the early church are not what some believe today. There were other books written that did not make the cut so to speak. The book’s that were chosen for the New Testament best told the story of Jesus and the will of God.

RetFireman said:
Even Christ’s offering of His Body and Blood at the Last Supper was a ritual form of cannibalism if you think about it.

Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ? And is not the bread that we break a participation in the body of Christ? Because there is one loaf, we, who are many, are one body, for we all partake of the one loaf. 1 Corinthians 10:16-17

i know, there are a great many Evangelists that are probably going to try and come through the computer screens at that thought, but it is true. A great many holidays are based on the Pagan calendars as are the rituals It was done that way in order to make conversions easier for them. Even Christ’s offering of His Body and Blood at the Last Supper was a ritual form of cannibalism if you think about it.

Sorry guys, just twelve years of Catholic education with four of it being Jesuit trained. They do like to offer up a healthy dose of different religious thought. That, and then there were those years of independant study.

The greatest Christian holiday is not Advent (Christmas) but rather Holy Week (Good Friday and Easter). The Earliest Church looked forward to Easter Rather than Christmas throughout the year, and there was a reason.

Unfortunately, over time, Christmas became more popular because of the Presents.

The Incarnation is a Holy, and Wonderful event, and I share the joy of my bretheren. But lets not forget about Why he was Incarnated. To die and be wounded for our Transgressions, and to be raised in Glory Defeating Death and Hell.

How do you think they came up with the list of these other holidays? Don’t you think that the source for these other holidays had Christmas listed SOMEWHERE? All that needed be done was look at a regular caledar. As far as I know, they still list it.

No, it sounds to me as this was yet another ploy of the Liberal PC police to keep people from being offended by the greatest of holidays which only asks for “Peace on Earth” and “Good Will Towards Men” This, as we all know, goes in direct opposition to the teachings of Islam, and we wouldn’t want IRB running amuck up there would we?

So really think about this and ask yourself again why in the world you think someone could or would believe that Christmas could possibly be imitted off a list when it guarantees the staff two weeks off with paY?

ggchuck: It wouldn’t be such a big deal if we weren’t faced with a daily barrage of how ANYTHING even remotely Christian is somehow a violation of the non-existent “separation of church and state” clause…

englishqueen01(#48): That’s exactly why this phony outrage is so counter productive. The omission of Christmas was stupid. To have purposely omitted it would have be extremely stupid as it had a 100% chance of causing embarrassment. Even Liberals aren’t that extremely stupid.

The issues to be outraged about are those that are done on purpose and with no apology or retraction offered such as (examples in San Diego): the removal of the memorial cross on Mt. Soledad, the removal of the manger display in Balboa Park, the renaming of ‘Christmas on the Prado’ to ‘December Nights,’ etc.

To harp on a error detracts from the outrage of legitimate issues. Though the consequences are magnitudes apart, I find this topic analogous to the phony outrage expressed at the naming a stuffed bear Mohammed.