Thursday, December 27, 2007

Bloggers For Chad Farnan - Looking Through 'Jesus Glasses'

When you put on your Jesus glasses, you can’t see the truth. - James Corbett, Teacher

Much like Rosa Parks, Chad Farnan sat in the back of the bus too many times. Only with Farnan, it’s not about a bus, such as the ones during Parks’ era in which blacks were told they could only sit in the back seats.

For Farnan, he sits in a high school history class where he is told by his teacher for more days than he cared to tolerate that Christians and Christians like himself were ignorant. Farnan doesn’t want to sit in a classroom anymore where he is required to listen to Christian bashing…so he and his parents are suing the Capistrano Valley Unified School District.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Christmas Scrooges Assault Boy Scout Tree Lot

NORTH COLLEGE HILL, Ohio - Three thieves threaten Christmas tree lot volunteers, hit boy scout with shotgun and escape with less than $400 Monday night.

This Week’s Top Scrooge - Dec. 7, 2007

By ALEXANDER
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The three men, This Week's Top Scrooge(s), are still on the loose, but a pissed-off community rallies to support the local Boy Scout's effort to raise money for educational trips...and police are resolved to find the heartless thugs.

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Community's Christ-like spirit kicks into high gear for Boy Scout Christmas tree lot...and the search is on for the robbers.

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The moral of the story?

What the devil attempted to make evil, God turned to good. The community of North College Hill is just a little bit more loving this week...and some people arose to giving a whole lot more of themselves then they ever knew they had.

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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Merry Tossmas for the 'Holiday' Catalog Hater in You

Tossmas for the rest of us! (apologies to Festivus celebrants)

Hey Y'all! Trailer Park Christmas Shoppin'

Taking care of your gift needs the trailer trash way...and I mean that in a good way!



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Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Freethought Society Mocks Christmas Tree Tradition

A Tree of Knowledge

Atheists in Philadelphia have apparently chosen Christmas time to start their own tradition of putting up a cut pine tree…only instead of Christmas decorations, the tree is adorned with book covers.

The Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia's ‘A Tree of Knowledge’ is displayed at the Chester County Courthouse beside three traditional holiday displays.

Ah yes, “A Tree of Knowledge”…nothing brightens an atheist’s “holiday” time more than a tree decorated with copies of covers of books, including “Why I Am Not A Christian,” “Why I Am Not a Muslim” and “Judaism Beyond God.”

Oh, yes, there’s a cover of the Koran and Bible, too! What a gloriously all-inclusive holiday this is!

Despite a large portion of Americans giving reverance to the Christmas tree and it’s relation to a holy day in the Christian calendar, none have called for the members of the Freethought Society to be whipped, jailed, or even executed.

The Tree of Knowledge stands next to three other religious displays and as the group’s president Margaret Downey said, is “welcoming to agnostics, atheists, humanists, skeptics, rationalists of all kinds.”

This from The Philadelphia Inquirer:

As there was last year, there is also a Chamber of Commerce tree - 32 feet high - meant to attract shoppers, as well as a Christian creche and a Jewish menorah.

When told of the Freethought display, Colin Hanna, a former county commissioner whose organization - Pennsylvania Pastors Network - is sponsoring the creche, said, “Their intention is to use the courthouse to make a political statement?

“That seems to me a pretty fundamental perversion of the purpose of holiday displays . . .”

Downey said her display, which she is calling “A Tree of Knowledge,” is decorated with covers of works such as the Bible.

“The reason we advocate reading the Bible,” she said in an interview, “is because so many people become atheists upon completing the entire reading of it.”


What a loving group this is! What a “thoughtful” group, too! Never mind that many more become SAVED after reading the Bible, deciding to accept Jesus Christ!

I have no problem with the Tree of Knowledge going up whatever time of year. I think it’s a great time to ask atheists what they are so really angry about. Why do they have to mock Christmas and Christians (apparently really dumb because they don’t read enough books)?

I’ll tell you what, Freethought Society. You go ahead and put “free thought” above all else and we’ll see where your best thinking gets you.

As for me, I’ll be happy to recognize that I’m really not that smart, but for the grace of God.

I’m happy to recognize something else as well:

I’m living in a country where no one is calling for your heads, even for such obvious mockery.

- Alexander, TheScroogeReport.com

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