somewhere in the bible it sez something about "those who suffer for my name's sake...and...ye shall be persecuted for my name's sake...."
The zealots have to keep crossing the lines of respect for others and demands for preferential, supportive, protective treatment no afforded to others, in order to have such demands refused, and they can then claim that they have been "reviled, or persecuted..."
Instance: We've had this country surviving quite a few wars and quite a few trials of its people without there being the Ten Commandments carved upon government building walls. The last war we actually WON, was WON without the words "under God," in the pledge of allegience.
The "loyalty OATH," did not uncover one single communist spy who said, "Oh, I can't take that loyalty oath. I'm not loyal the the USA?"
"Roe v. Wade." did not increase abortion. It just made it safer and more women survived the procedure, and lived to have other children when it was safer or they were able to offer a child a better life.
The "In God We Trust," did not make the greed any less. In fact, it has become outrageously more pronounced since "God" was stamped on our filthy money. Does any other free or tyrannical country actually put religious sentiments on their money? They put kings, or queens, or tyrants and dictators on their money, not God.
We can have it mandated that the word GOD be tattooed on the behinds or foreheads of every baby born a US citizen. I don't think it would be of a single benefit to mankind, or US citizens, other than to tattoo artists.
The fake war on Christmas is being played for the benefit of insecure Christians who think they need to fulfill one of Jesus' prophecies.
Something like, "Ye shall be reviled for my names sake."
Or, "Yes shall be persecuted for my name's sake."
Many places in the Bible, there appear the words, ".....in order that the prophesy be fulfilled....." This means that in many cases, prophecies written centuries ago are controlling factors in the behaviours of people living in an entirely different circumstance, and five thousand or one thousand year old prophecies being "fulfilled" are totally ridiculous and have no derivation from a goodly supernatural being. They are being acted upon by humans attempting to elevate themselves by fulfilling such prophecies. There is no suffering and no injury to a divine entity because people have become fed up with the commercialisation of the material celebration of the birth of a alleged semi-divine individual. Christ did not arrive holding a Christmas tree or a credit card from Macy's.
jd
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