dxAce wrote:

Larry Ozarow wrote:


RHF or somebody else posted this screed
in the past. It is a collection of incorrect,
whiny, self-pitying claptrap. Pretending to
stand up for American principles, the author
tells anyone who doesn't share HIS personal
beliefs to leave, which is about as un-American
as you can get. America served as a haven
for dissenters and religious minorities from the
beginning and was founded on determinedly secular
principles, and let's hope it doesn't succumb any
further than it already has to the kind of narrow
sectarian absolutism reflected in this kind of
article.


I can understand what you are saying, however, are we to be a haven for those
who are intent upon destroying our very way of life?

Something to think about at any rate.

dxAce
Michigan
USA


Steve,

I don't think that wishing people "Merry Christmas" rather
than "Season's Greetings," or maintaining the absurd fiction
that somehow the ten commandments are central to our form of
government are important aspects of our way of life. The overwhelming
majority of immigrants, Christian or non-Christian, buy into
all the same things most native-born Americans believe in. They
work, they vote, they send their kids to school, and they pay
taxes.

The OP is clearly offended by the very existence of variant
religious beliefs and cultures. They're not being rammed down
his throat, and there's nothing wrong with people who don't share
his beliefs not wanting them rammed down their throats either.
The overwhelming majority of Americans celebrate Christmas and are
free to continue to do so. It's perfectly all right and well within
the American tradition that people be free to not celebrate it,
and furthermore not pretend to celebrate it. Our "official" culture
can afford to be secular and all-inclusive and still allow and even
encourage all groups to believe what they want.

It's interesting that with all the attacks and threats against
Christianity and Americanism certain people think they see, Americans
are the most religious people in the western world, and of course
almost all of those religious people are Christians.