Corpsegrinder wrote:Don’t change the subject. Your words:
subgenius wrote:During the Civil War , the yankee scourge pretty much considered Christmas a "sin".
That’s not only wrong, but also just plain weird.
subject was not changed, and my words remain true...aside form whatever planet you studied american history form. If you do not even have the fundamental understanding that up to and during the civil war, in america, that Thanksgiving was the preferred holiday in the North and Xmas was in South - then you likely do not understand that the two sides also disagreed on the subject of slavery (not necessarily racism, just slavery). Lincoln was instrumental in using Xmas as a means to unite the country, and post civil war saw its adoption in a more earnest and commercial effort. Perhaps your understanding is that Xmas had not been an English custom, and that Boston had it illegal when Jamestown celebrated it openly is just a myth.....at which case your position is delusional.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
Roger Morrison wrote:Personally, when reading the Bible I often easily replace "God" with what I think is an appropriate word that clarifies the passage. . .
As the word "God" means less and seems redundant/superfluous, being dropped with out injury, would the possibility of replacement, or omission be more reasonable?
Your thoughts??? Roger
I think it’s perfectly reasonable, especially from the philosophical standpoint of someone like Spinoza.
Subgenius wrote:If you do not even have the fundamental understanding that up to and during the civil war, in america, that Thanksgiving was the preferred holiday in the North and Xmas was in South - then you likely do not understand that the two sides also disagreed on the subject of slavery (not necessarily racism, just slavery). Lincoln was instrumental in using Xmas as a means to unite the country, and post civil war saw its adoption in a more earnest and commercial effort.
No, Subby, the Civil War was not a fight over whether Christmas was better than Thanksgiving.
It was a crusade to rid the land of the blood-sucking vampire slave masters that had infested the South and to free their zombie blood slaves.
