Father O'Malley was driving down to Boston when got stopped for speeding in Medford. The highway patrol officer smelled alcohol on the priest's breath and then saw an empty wine bottle on the floor of the car.
He said, 'Father, have you been drinking?'
'Only water', replied Father O'Malley.
The policeman asked, 'Then how come I can smell wine?'
The priest looked at the bottle and said, 'Good Lord! He's done it again.'
Simply the mean and rotten jerks that insist on separation of Church and State ( a concept I generally agree with ) to extremes like hating Crosses and suing to keep charity events from happening have a very sick and twisted religion. They are hateful busybodys. Totalitarian and Intolerant. They can Bite my shiny metal.....
It is entirely possible to be Atheist, Agnostic, and Secular Humanist without having a burning desire to ruin things for other people.
There are folk that Destroy ancient monuments because it "offends their Gods". Some live among us, and use lawyers.
The difference between keeping a Christmas Concert from happening and murdering those who disagree with them is so much smaller than they think.
I have a profound desire to lock these people, the Westboro clan, and the Muslim Brotherhood in a cage match. I bet the Pay Per View take would be awesome.
Not a lot, but a little. If they call you Heathen, and you are, Embrace it. ( I am. I do. )
How does that look on your resume? I got into West Point. A Very Exclusive College. ( makes Harvard look like Empire State ) 6 months before graduation, I quit because I got my feelings hurt was protesting religious intolerance. ....
I would never hire a guy who has a history of expensive hissy fits. I would expect him to try and ruin my business if he was the least bit offended by something beyond my control.
I bet telling him to "grow up" would get you sued.
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejewelled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crib, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her: “How could God let something like this happen?” (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said: “I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?”
In light of recent events... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbour as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing yet?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.
Pass it on if you think it has merit.
If not, then just discard it.... no one will know you did. But if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
These people who want to ban Christmas are Violating the First Amendment. It's pretty darn clear for legal talk. The Government can't establish a State Church. ( Like England had ) It can't keep you from worshiping as you will. ( as MANY places did, and still do. Try having a Prayer meeting In China, or Saudi Arabia, both countries with State Religions and zero tolerance. But be warned, you may be killed. Try and build a Church in either of those or many other countries. You Will be killed. It doesn't matter in most cases if your Church is Baptist, Zoroastrian, or Catholic, if it's not the State Religion, you are dead meat. )
These people want THEIR religion to be forced on others by the State. Assume long list of swear words here. Rampant violation of the law.
In a nutshell. They are mean people. Cruel to take away others joy. Cruelty is evil. They are evil.
I'm not even a Christian, which makes my insistence on religious freedom very biased. ( being not Of The Book, my life is forfeit in many countries )
I remember we had the Burning Times, where young women were murdered in the name Of God for being witches. Here. In America. ( though research shows the "witchcraft" practiced consisted of not giving sex to the evil, murdering, fat old priests )
Now we have the Anti Religious/Anti Christmas movement that seeks to make our town squares and parks monuments to No God Other Than The Holy State.
Assume long list of swear words here.
How long before "whaaa! It's a violation of My Rights to see a Cross" turns into burning at the stake?
