Momma Angel wrote:DTOM,
I have no problem with some "just don't get it" no matter which faction, side, etc. What I "just don't get" is the derogatory way some treat others because of those different beliefs. Just boggles my mind.
yeah, i can understand that.
so i guess you can understand how ticked off i get when i hear some religious leaders and their friends at fox goin' off about the evil secularists.
it's really strange to me. secularist implies that while you don't actively seek to end religion, you don't want it to splash over into your daily life either. what's so bad about that ?
i had an interesting conversation with a good friend over the holidays.
he started recounting to me all of the ways that the secular liberals were cagily removing christmas and replacing it with holidays.
so, we talked some and i asked him if he really got why business people say "happy holidays" instead of "merry christmas". his response was because of political correctness.
but the real reason that we use it is because in business you interact with people from nearly every religion these days. he didn't think that was good enough. "it's CHRISTMAS break", he insisted.
i pointed out that this year, chanukah fell at the same time as christmas. "so we could easily call "chanukah break", would you have a problem with that ?"
"yes." "why ? " "because it's *^&%$@# CHRISTMAS !!!"
so then it back to the hoopla over saying "merry christmas"... after it was established that nobody was keeping us, personally, from using that greeting, i asked him;
"so how many times did you say "merry christmas" this season ? "
.......... silence........
so, here is but one example of religion being used to further an agenda that in reality had nothing to do with the teachings of christ.
although it did seem to have quite a lot to do with a book written by one of the fox news personalities , entitled "The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday Is Worse Than You Thought". released in late october. "makes a great stocking stuffer !!".
surely you can understand why some people have really had enough of "the conservative attack on people of non-faith".
surely we must all have better things to do ?
As for being an easy target, well, if being a Christian makes me an easy target, fire away! :wink:
I wish you had just left the other link and left me to wondering why you posted it. 
Couldn't help myself. 
), i can tell you that when i became more inclined towards buddhism, the first temple i joined wa a complete nightmare. the last thing that anyone wanted to talk about was the teaching of lord buddha. donations and evangelism took the firat and only place on their agenda. 
