Taking 'Christ' out of Christmas

[fifty5]

FiftyFive...

you said in part...

"...My views about organised religions are that they are possibly THE most virulent sources of evil, but my views about (the enormous majority of) individuals who practice those religions is that they're just folk like me.

Live and let live.

Do as you would be done by!..."

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I am certain you intended and most will take that as amelioration. I beg to differ.

Had those advocates of individual freedom and human rights had the courage to intervene in 1917, the graveyard called the Soviet Union would not have taken 65 million innocent lives.

Had the western world the courage to put the Brown Shirts down in the 1930's, there would have been no world war two and the loss of more millions of innocent life.

In the conflict between reason and faith, if mankind fails to contain the 'virulent evil' of both Christian and Muslim, we will visit Armageddon yet again.

Seasons Greetings...

amicus

Sorry amicus, but rather than differing, it seems that you didn't understand my meaning - but I'll grant that I was a bit cryptic.

My neighbours to left, right and back are Muslim (at the front, there's the dentist's surgery). In all three cases both they and I 'live and let live' - in fact, Mr Khan and I exchange Christmas and Eid cards.

They are typical Muslims - and I can accept their differences of opinion to mine as easily as I accept the differences between my opinions and those of Christian friends of mine; who are pretty typical Christians.

All the cases you cite are atypical of the majorities. They are also about people who didn't 'live and let live'.

You may have me down as a wishy-washy liberal, but I do get extremely angry about malevolent lack of tolerance - from no matter where it comes.

In a forum dedicated to the exchange of ideas, I'll listen, debate and present my own views. The circumstances are exceptional.

Elsewhere I tend to hold my peace, unless the malevolence becomes active.

 

[Amy Sweet]

Re: X-mas (EL threadjack sub thread)

The "X-mas" form is actually very old and was never intended irreverently. Nowadays it is used as a sort of euphemism, but it was invented in a monkly context with no denial of Christ in its little heart, at all.

cantdog

Thank you cant. I was going to say that, but I didn't know the details.