Politics - Jason X

[Lexx]

"In God We Trust"

 

real smart

 

To me this always sounded a bit like Allahu Akbar. Not much difference, tbh.

[Namutree]

It was a pretty big thing a few years ago, but I don't think Christians ever whined about the phrase Happy Holidays.

I know for a fact that isn't true, and if you doubt me I'll create a compilation of Christians whining about happy holidays.

[Namutree]

 

 

I didn't think you of all people would be opposed to privatization and purging of unions.

 

They also think Usury is bad. I love usury. They're unacceptable.

 

 

 

EDIT: If people want high interest loans, that's fine by me.

 

EDIT2: Regarding unions. Private sector unions are good. Public sector unions are bad.

Edited September 28, 2017 by Namutree

[Guard Dog]

Remember the situation the situation in Salt Lake City with the cops who never heard of the 4th or 5th Amendments and wanted to take a victims blood without a warrant? A nurse stopped them and they arrested her, roughly arrested her? More news has come of that. Sadly the accident victim (who WAS a victim by the way) had died from his injuries. But the thing of the story is the Salt Lake City police Union chief is lamenting how the exposure of their bad acts has made "pariahs" of their two fine officers.  http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/09/26/accident-victim-at-center-of-university-hospital-blood-draw-controversy-dies/

[Malcador]

You would think cops would realize perception matters by now. Well or care, I suppose.

[Guard Dog]

I stand by my original prediction. They will dither over this make the right noises, say the right things then quietly scuttle the investigation once they think everyone has forgotten.

[Volourn]

"I know for a fact that isn't true, and if you doubt me I'll create a compilation of Christians whining about happy holidays."

 

1. That was people  counter protesting  the push for 'happy holidays'.

 

2. It isn't just Christians who roll their eyes at the demand for it to be 'happy holidays'.

[Elerond]

"I know for a fact that isn't true, and if you doubt me I'll create a compilation of Christians whining about happy holidays."

 

1. That was people  counter protesting  the push for 'happy holidays'.

 

2. It isn't just Christians who roll their eyes at the demand for it to be 'happy holidays'.

 

People should just accept that it is "Hyvää Joulua" (Have good Yule), like we do in Finland and everybody can be miserable or happy for fact that it isn't their holiday that gets praised and there isn't constant need for battle which phrase to use during midwinter holiday season  

[injurai]

 

"I know for a fact that isn't true, and if you doubt me I'll create a compilation of Christians whining about happy holidays."

 

1. That was people  counter protesting  the push for 'happy holidays'.

 

2. It isn't just Christians who roll their eyes at the demand for it to be 'happy holidays'.

 

People should just accept that it is "Hyvää Joulua" (Have good Yule), like we do in Finland and everybody can be miserable or happy for fact that it isn't their holiday that gets praised and there isn't constant need for battle which phrase to use during midwinter holiday season

 

 

Sounds too close to "hallelujah" to ever work.

[Elerond]

 

 

"I know for a fact that isn't true, and if you doubt me I'll create a compilation of Christians whining about happy holidays."

 

1. That was people  counter protesting  the push for 'happy holidays'.

 

2. It isn't just Christians who roll their eyes at the demand for it to be 'happy holidays'.

 

People should just accept that it is "Hyvää Joulua" (Have good Yule), like we do in Finland and everybody can be miserable or happy for fact that it isn't their holiday that gets praised and there isn't constant need for battle which phrase to use during midwinter holiday season

 

 

Sounds too close to "hallelujah" to ever work.

 

 

It don't think that they have similar sound

 

https://translate.google.fi/?hl=fi#fi/en/hyv%C3%A4%C3%A4%20joulua%0Ahallelujah

[Blarghagh]

https://www.google.nl/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/28/50-cent-says-trump-offered-him-500000-to-join-presidential-campaign

 

This made me laugh.

[HoonDing]

take from the poor and give to the rich

 

[Gfted1]

Nice legs!

[IndiraLightfoot]

Yeah, them plushie front paws are impressively wrong anatomically.

[ShadySands]

Edited September 28, 2017 by ShadySands

[Namutree]

Nice legs!

They really are. It's too bad those black socks are obstructing our view.

[Raithe]

[Raithe]

On how things get distracted..and the focus gets lost.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_F__0Hy2mMY

[Hurlshort]

Geez, it's like the White House exists in a vacuum and has no idea what type of tone should be taken at any time. That Puerto Rico stuff is just brutal.

[Malcador]

The responses some of the staff gave were hilarious. Good news story as no one died, pretty much sounds like the PMs here at work

[SonicMage117]

 

It was a pretty big thing a few years ago, but I don't think Christians ever whined about the phrase Happy Holidays.

I know for a fact that isn't true, and if you doubt me I'll create a compilation of Christians whining about happy holidays.

You got it wrong, the non-Christian are the ones who are trying to remove Christmas altogether because of "Christ", Christians have never had a problem with the phrase Happy Holidays. I know for a fact that churches have always used Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Even a simple search on Youtube will show this.

 

But for interest of discussion, what reason do you think Christians would try to remove the word Happy Holidays? Just curious. If you're referring to the constant marketing of Christian Churches saying "Just say Nerry Christmas" that's because they don't want the term Merry Christmas to die, it's not because they have a problem with the term Happy Holidays. It's quite different.

Edited September 29, 2017 by SonicMage117

[redneckdevil]

As someone who works in retail, the "happy holidays" and "merry Christmas" for a lot of (misguided) people is a battle. Look at Starbucks when they do happy holidays, the Christian's and insane Christmas people get offended. Go to Walmart and tell people merry Christmas and u get people offended that ur either pushing Christianity on them or ur being disrespectful for all the many other holidays out there.

There's stupid people on both sides with a majority of people not giving a **** either way and just want presents and the damn holiday to be over with asap.

 

The real crime is that we push Christmas for several months, wayyyy before the month of December even begins.

[ShadySands]

There are some groups believe that making more neutral greetings and Starbucks cups is an attack on them and their faith. Sometimes they are right and some people do want to get religion out of the public sphere as much as possible but to say that it is one sided is false.

 

Ninja'd by RND

Edited September 29, 2017 by ShadySands

[SonicMage117]

And people leaving their decorations up for months after just because they're too lazy to put everything up lol

 

I remember the Starbucks thing, I think the thing was that Christians got mad because the cups originally had Merry Christmas and not Happy Holidays which they replaced it with. Of course, this being long after Happy Holidays term users declared war on term Merry Christmas.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/09/starbucks-removed-christmas-from-their-cups-because-they-hate-jesus-christian-says-in-viral-facebook-video/?utm_term=.48840bfe3248

 

Here is a silly video that a "Christian" made saying that Starbucks hates Jesus because they replaced the phrase but you know, I'm not opposing the idea that this may actually be a person who says that they're a Christian but just wanted to stir things up on social media instead, causing Christians to look silly. The Christians that I know would never make Christianity or the church look like such a joke.

 

I mean, I guess every religeon has their nutjobs, every ones that don't consider their religeons as a religeon hehe

[Tigranes]

"Christians NEVER had a problem with happy holidays! This video of a Christian that has a problem with happy holidays now I'm not saying he's a fake Christian but you know maybe he is maybe he isn't is all I'm saying, I mean even if he is a Christian he could just be a nutjob exception am I right?"

 

There's nothing wrong with a simple "I didn't know that, that's an interesting point to consider".

 

It really is about America and other Western nations trying to decide to what extent they're still a 'Christian nation' and to what extent they are fully secularised. It's pretty clear that America, for one, isn't quite ready to blatantly abandon the vestiges of the former, even as we move in many ways in the second direction.