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When a few stores do display a Chanukah Menorah, it is less than 10% the size of the Christmas tree displayed in the same store.
More importantly, what, if anything, do these stores display for the holidays that began September 29 and ended October 21?
That isn't about the store favoring one holiday over another. It's about supply and demand. If Chanukah brought in as many customers as Christmas then the store would have as big a Chanukah display.
Your moons are rubbish, astronomer tells Christmas card artists
For Barthel, the last straw was a Unicef Christmas card in 2010 that showed three bobble-hatted children decorating a tree on a snowy hill beneath a waning crescent moon. The scene is unlikely, says Barthel. A waning moon, which looks like a "C" in the northern hemisphere, doesn't rise until around 3am, and reaches the height in the card an hour or two later.
"I don't think the children would be out at that time," Barthel says.
Good try, but still violates the Separation of Church and State, doesn't it?
No it doesn't because "separation of church and state" does not exist in the US Constitution. Songs that contain religious messages (like Christmas songs for example) is not Congress establishing a state religion nor preventing the free exercise of religion. I noticed that when California schools had lessons about Islam that involved them learning the prayers and customs that the ACLU had absolutely no problem with this. When I was in school band, we learned the christmas songs so that we could play them for nursing homes in the area.
I am just pointing out the hypocrisy of many Jews who hate Chistmas because they have a problem with Christ, but have no problem with it as long as they are making money off of it.
So, obviously, the Jews are NOT warring against Christmas.
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I think you're missing the joke, which is an ongoing one here on CD (and around the whole country, it seems). The joke being that there is no War on Christmas... and people who claim there is are usually just Christmas Nazis, who get their panties in a wad over seeing a "Happy Holidays" sign. I'm Jewish and don't care about Christmas, nor do most of the non-Christians in the world. Get over yourselves is more appropriately directed at people like YOU, who think anyone who opts for Happy Holidays instead is somehow attacking your beliefs. I mean, really?
And that's ALL I'm saying about the topic this year - I swear!
LOL...I can even ADD to the joke....it's a PAGAN holiday and the right wingers are so clueless,they defend it without investigating...like they do with EVERYTHING else..
True Christians should take NOTHING at face value....Christmas is only a holiday for Wallyworld and other chain stores.
“The earliest reference to Christmas being marked on Dec. 25 comes from the second century after Jesus’ birth. It is considered likely the first Christmas celebrations were in reaction to the Roman Saturnalia, a harvest festival that marked the winter solstice—the return of the sun—and honored Saturn, the god of sowing. Saturnalia was a rowdy time, much opposed by the more austere leaders among the still-minority Christian sect. Christmas developed, one scholar says, as a means of replacing worship of the sun with worship of the Son. By 529 A.D., after Christianity had become the official state religion of the Roman Empire, Emperor Justinian made Christmas a civic holiday. The celebration of Christmas reached its peak—some would say its worst moments—in the medieval period when it became a time for conspicuous consumption and unequaled revelry.”
Good try, but still violates the Separation of Church and State, doesn't it?
I don't think so, but I suppose that's a matter of opinion unless one sees things in black and white, which isn't me.
I was surprised when my daughter was in high school that her concert band and chorus played and sang some Christmas songs at their holiday concerts. They also included Chanukah music and usually something from a completely different tradition--African or Asian Indian songs, for example. However, some of the Christmas music was clearly Christian and not just commerical Santa Claus-type stuff.
The majority of people in my small town were Christian, although there were a handful of Jewish and Indian residents, as well as people of no religion. Both the band director and the choral director are Jewish.
When in a band, you study and play music. Religion has nothing to do with the subject,...just the music.
Really. Art is often born of a particular religion, but art also transcends religion. In a couple of weeks, I am going to see The Nature of Islamic Art at the Metropolitcan Museum of Art. By all accounts, it is breathtaking. I am not Muslim nor am I interested in conversion, but that's not going to make me dismiss this opportunity.
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