Comments on: How the Left Stole Christmas http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/ The technology resource you can't resist! Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Frank Sherwin http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-101204 Frank Sherwin Sat, 12 May 2007 04:16:08 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/#comment-101204 Hey Sven - Be sure to check out the cover of the latest 'Acts & Facts'(Lima, PERU). My dinosaur soft tissue article on our web has almost 25,000 hits! Not a good time to be a darwinist - but when is it? Hey Sven -

Be sure to check out the cover of the latest ‘Acts & Facts’(Lima, PERU).
My dinosaur soft tissue article on our web has almost 25,000 hits!
Not a good time to be a darwinist – but when is it?

]]> By: Sven Rafferty http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-96451 Sven Rafferty Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:23:36 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/#comment-96451 Are you trying to get out of my New Years gift by changing the subject? :) Are you trying to get out of my New Years gift by changing the subject? :)

]]> By: TOS http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-96450 TOS Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:16:00 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/#comment-96450 So, Mr. Rafferty: What time will you be going to work on January 1st? So, Mr. Rafferty:

What time will you be going to work on January 1st?

]]> By: Jon http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-96438 Jon Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:02:28 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/#comment-96438 Geez, talk about beating a dead horse. You still haven't recognized that yours isn't the only special day recognized this time of year? It's not the only one, hence "happy holidays," so as to not presume we all celebrate Christmas, so as to not presume that we don't have freedom of religion in this country. No one has taken away your right to practice your religion. You could at least credit the writer (Hans Zeiger), though he's not much of a poet. Do you really want/need your faith endorsed by Target and Lowes? You know your faith is respected when it's exploited by retailers in order to sell, sell, sell. Ugh, I fell right into your tar pit trap. Hey, there's a dead horse in here, and it smells REALLY dead. Silly (and smelly) indeed. Geez, talk about beating a dead horse. You still haven’t recognized that yours isn’t the only special day recognized this time of year? It’s not the only one, hence “happy holidays,” so as to not presume we all celebrate Christmas, so as to not presume that we don’t have freedom of religion in this country. No one has taken away your right to practice your religion. You could at least credit the writer (Hans Zeiger), though he’s not much of a poet.

Do you really want/need your faith endorsed by Target and Lowes? You know your faith is respected when it’s exploited by retailers in order to sell, sell, sell.

Ugh, I fell right into your tar pit trap. Hey, there’s a dead horse in here, and it smells REALLY dead. Silly (and smelly) indeed.

]]> By: Sven Rafferty http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-96431 Sven Rafferty Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:02:02 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/#comment-96431 Nope, don't claim it as mine. Passing it on. Hey TOS, I didn't know you exchanged presents for New Years Eve. What did you get me? ;) I guess I missed that while I was at the mall and everyone was buying *CHRISTmas* presents. :) And if you're going to be consistent, lets start using the same phrase October 31st, too, k? I mean, with all the other holidays celebrated that day, I often wonder where the PC crowd is on that day. Oh right, it's not a Christian based holiday thus no one to offend. :) Nope, don’t claim it as mine. Passing it on.

Hey TOS, I didn’t know you exchanged presents for New Years Eve. What did you get me? ;) I guess I missed that while I was at the mall and everyone was buying *CHRISTmas* presents. :)

And if you’re going to be consistent, lets start using the same phrase October 31st, too, k? I mean, with all the other holidays celebrated that day, I often wonder where the PC crowd is on that day. Oh right, it’s not a Christian based holiday thus no one to offend. :)

]]> By: TOS http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-96430 TOS Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:33:45 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/#comment-96430 Haha. Thats plain silly. The whole "War on Christmas" thing is so last year, and is nonsense to begin with. The only thing stolen is that poem, which has to be at least 2 years old judging from the "Tom Daschle" line. Are you claiming you wrote it? Cool. You're a poet, and I didnt even know it. Corporations often say "Happy Holidays." Yes. Please note that it is plural. This includes Christmas, and the holiday a mere 7 days later: New Years Day. I guess you don't celebrate that one. Just plain silly. Haha. Thats plain silly. The whole “War on Christmas” thing is so last year, and is nonsense to begin with. The only thing stolen is that poem, which has to be at least 2 years old judging from the “Tom Daschle” line. Are you claiming you wrote it? Cool. You’re a poet, and I didnt even know it.

Corporations often say “Happy Holidays.” Yes. Please note that it is plural. This includes Christmas, and the holiday a mere 7 days later: New Years Day. I guess you don’t celebrate that one.

Just plain silly.

]]> By: Sven Rafferty http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-96426 Sven Rafferty Tue, 19 Dec 2006 19:42:50 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/#comment-96426 True, NR, that the original reason was not Christ but rather the pagan Roman celebration of the planet Saturn (as your link describes.) Further reading does state the reason for the season was due to Rome's transformation from pagans to believers. The celebration changed its focus and has remained to the true reason for the season since. In fact, Christmas has been celebrated longer than the Saturnalia has been and thus has more precedented for the cute rhyme. But granted, technically you're correct; however, the poem still is valid as a whole. True, NR, that the original reason was not Christ but rather the pagan Roman celebration of the planet Saturn (as your link describes.) Further reading does state the reason for the season was due to Rome’s transformation from pagans to believers. The celebration changed its focus and has remained to the true reason for the season since. In fact, Christmas has been celebrated longer than the Saturnalia has been and thus has more precedented for the cute rhyme. But granted, technically you’re correct; however, the poem still is valid as a whole.

]]> By: NR http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/comment-page-1/#comment-96425 NR Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:03:56 +0000 http://svenontech.com/2006/12/18/how-the-left-stole-christmas/#comment-96425 Hey Sven, Cute poem, but "the reason for the season" is actually Saturnalia <a href="http://altreligion.about.com/library/weekly/aa121305a.htm" rel="nofollow">[link]</a>. Saturnalia, along with other merry winter solstice celebrations, are still observed by some people today...but were one to wish a roomful of Baptists a "Merry Saturnalia" on the 25th, there'd be quite an outcry and much offense taken! Hey Sven,
Cute poem, but “the reason for the season” is actually Saturnalia [link]. Saturnalia, along with other merry winter solstice celebrations, are still observed by some people today…but were one to wish a roomful of Baptists a “Merry Saturnalia” on the 25th, there’d be quite an outcry and much offense taken!

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