How the Religious Right Stole Christmas

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Christine Gregoire had "insulted Christians all over the world" when she "allowed" a Winter Solstice display to stand next to a Christmas tree and a Nativity scene in the state's capitol building.

Uh, the Christmas tree is already an abomination according to the Bible. I challenge anyone to find Biblical support for the idea of bringing a tree indoors and adorning it with lights and ornaments. In fact, it's a tradition that dates to long before the time of Christ. Jeremiah (of the Old Testament, before Christ) tells us that the LORD prohibits the practice.

Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

As long as the Capitol building has already been thoroughly defiled by that pagan tree abomination, what's the harm in adding a little cheery Winter Solstice display?

Uh-oh...these kinds of historical facts are bound to throw the Religious Right into a head spin.

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Then there are those other Federal holidays that shouldn't recognized be they upset some people who aren't represented by the holiday.

Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Memorial Day

Independence Day

Labor Day

Columbus Day

Veterans Day

Thanksgiving Day

And what about Atheists.... they have a holiday too APRIL 1st

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Then there are those other Federal holidays that shouldn't recognized be they upset some people who aren't represented by the holiday.

Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Memorial Day

Independence Day

Labor Day

Columbus Day

Veterans Day

Thanksgiving Day

Shhhhhhhhhhh!

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