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Not nearly as odd as "Christians" who claim to leave the judgement to Jesus, then proceed to continually judge their fellow man. One thing I find odd is that several Christians here enjoy highlighting that Lheym does not have children, yet fail to acknowledge the huge sacrifice that he has made to care for his BIL. That could very well be one of the reasons he is not a father, I do not know. | |||
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Basic math does not include calculus. Algebra II and above should be elective in HS. Name me a trade, profession, or any walk of life that does not involve a basic knowledge of chemistry??? Even lawyers need to understand chemistry. When schools get good at turning out fundamentally knowledgeable citizens…lets talk about the rest. They have not mastered it. And as Scott pointed out…there is just so much time in a day…don’t waste it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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No worries Cat. Other than a bit of our politics we're good! . | |||
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He is taking care of his bil, certainly. I don't think a single one of us is telling him how he ought do it either. Nor or we stating that society oughta tell him how to do it. I understand, your a lefty, you won't want to see the difference, carry on. | |||
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https://www.biblegateway.com/p...%3A13-22&version=NIV Oh Jesus would have a couple f bombs for you Skippy. | |||
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Simply put, 100%. | |||
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I'm sure you are correct, why just last week I bought cattle, or least part of one. I think it might have even been a Friday. I've been looking for that guy https://youtu.be/AqK4Q67rdM4 | |||
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Yep. Me too. When the old fart isn't busy with the foul mouth he makes some sense.... For a lawyer | |||
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I thought Easter was about Christ’s resurrection. How bout Merry Christmas? | |||
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The Christmas Tree is pagan. These are examples of Catholicism (early Church) having to compromise and adapt folk’s culture in order to spread the religion. | |||
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Easter is a Christian holiday. It was decided to celebrate it time wise when it was probably for the same reason the pagans celebrated the equinox time- it is the start of spring, and a natural time of renewal. People want to celebrate something at that time… so something is put there. The Bible tells the story of Christ’s birth, but it certainly doesn’t state it was on December 25. Some religious types refuse to celebrate Christmas because it was not specifically stated to be celebrated in the Bible. So, did the early church co-opt a date to surplant a pagan celebration? Maybe, but that doesn’t make it a pagan celebration that the Christians took over. The Christians would celebrate Christmas and Easter regardless- just maybe a different date or time. | |||
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Christmas is a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ. We all know this. It’s also a national holiday. The USA is a culturally Christian nation and has been since its inception. It’s irrefutable | |||
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Culturally Christian? So, what does this mean? Prayer in school? You do know that the first white settlers in North America were fleeing England because they wanted to make their own religious choices? | |||
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True. They wanted freedom OF religion. But they were also Christian. They wanted no State Church but they could not conceive of folks who didn’t believe in God. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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They wanted the Federal Government to stay out of Religion. Plain, simple, and stop. | |||
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You edited out the rest of my response. The Christmas Tree and the date are non Christian things. The Inited States is not cultural Christian. We are culturally a Constitutionally a Limited Democracy. Tell it to all the Muslims, Jews, Buddhist, atheists, etc that enjoy all the Rights and privileges of Citizenship as you. | |||
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Exactly! Completely away allowing like minded communities to have what they like — in their schools and there local courthouses. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ J. Lane Easter, DVM A born Texan has instilled in his system a mind-set of no retreat or no surrender. I wish everyone the world over had the dominating spirit that motivates Texans.– Billy Clayton, Speaker of the Texas House No state commands such fierce pride and loyalty. Lesser mortals are pitied for their misfortune in not being born in Texas.— Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Texas in May, 1991. | |||
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Then We Incorporated that prohibition against the States ad the Bill of Rights originally did not apply to the States. It is called the 14th Amendment. It is one of those your Texas GOP Platform calls to abolish. Glad we agree. | |||
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Total B.S., thank God the Feds are there to stop "like minded people" from trampling on the rights of the minority. We do not live in a Democracy but rather a Representative Republic, the founders were well aware of the terrany of the majority and designed our system to protect against it. Your ideas about religion and Government are downright scary. | |||
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“Tell it to all the Muslims, Jews, Buddhist, atheists, etc that enjoy all the Rights and privileges of Citizenship as you.” Tell them what? Enjoy your day off work as the whole entire country, in a federally recognized holiday, celebrates the birth of Christ? | |||
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Christmas, like Easter, is now both a religious and a secular holiday. Even Americans who aren't Christians celebrate these holidays. You don't find Santa and Rudolph in the Bible, do you? | |||
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I absolutely swear I don't want to trample on any other Americans rights. Call me on the phone or tell me to fly down there and look you in the eye while I say I don't want to trample on your rights and I will. ( Please don't, that's a huge waste of air miles!) But we do sing Christian Christmas hymns in our public school at Christmas and I genuinely don't think anyone minds. It's cute, the little kids love it and it makes me teary eyed. If the Somali Muslims in Doc Butler's town wanna Allah Akbar,.....well, whatever that's their gig. If the Oakland Californians wanna Ebonic their way thru Kwanza I dig it. Way out here in my corner of earth we, "Silent Night" and," Oh Little Town of Bethlehem". I gotta say, I would really dig being in a heavy Hispanic community and attending their version of a school Christmas pageant or a southern African American communities school Christmas pageant. I bet it would be awesome. | |||
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Uh oh. Thank you for making my point. Even Americans who aren’t Christian…are celebrating Christian holidays. Why? The USA is culturally Christian. If it makes you feel better, I wish I had made your point. | |||
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It doesn't matter if you are not Christian on a holiday like Christmas. If the damn place isn't open, pretty stupid to show up for work. | |||
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You've ignored my point to make your own. Saying the US is culturally Christian is the same as saying the US is a white nation. The dominant culture in the US has been white European, and that included their religion. You can't claim the US for your own religion without diminishing the contributions of others and ultimately diminishing our country. The nation isn't culturally Christian. Maybe your family is. Lane's family is. I am culturally Christian, but my wife is not. She's culturally Buddhist. She's just as much a part of the US as you or I. Her vote counts the same as ours. | |||
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After some more thought, I've decided I don't like the term "culturally Christian." It makes us think backwards at the issue. Religion is part of culture, not vice versa. A number of different cultures are Christian. And our culture (if the US even has a single culture, which it doesn't) includes more religions than Christianity. | |||
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one of my associates was “over my shoulder”as i viewed this thread and sent me this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9UJ-kJYLsQ DuggaBoye-O NRA-Life Whittington-Life TSRA-Life DRSS DSC HSC SCI | |||
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In my line of work, we are open 24/7. I don't see the nonchristians volunteering to work the christian religious holidays even for an exchange to one of theirs. In fact, they usually want (and get) both. Yes, everyone gets their share of holidays to work... but there was only one jewish guy who was willing to say I will take christmas, if you will take one of mine for me... The rest all played games with it. | |||
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