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Eric * - 2004-10-08 18:03:03 Eric *! I've never been to the moon, but I hear it's real cold. If you think they sound like a riot you have the bar set too low, my friend.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2004-10-09 01:11:10 You sure do make Ypsilanti sound like an intolerant place.* * * * * * * * * * * * Eric * - 2004-10-09 02:25:17 Just so that there isn't any confusion, I was referring to the churches and their festivals.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-09 09:40:58 What nonsense. If I think a festival, at a church, in a park, at a mosque, somewhere else, is smarmy, I'll damn well say so. Political correctness is the real intolerance. Churches aren't exempt from my critical eye, and nothing else is either. As another Ypsi blogger noted (as a bumper sticker) "No special rights for Christians."* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-09 09:51:16 And if you think dissent equals prejudice, I'd say you fit right in with our brave new Ashcroftian world.* * * * * * * * * * * * Murph - 2004-10-09 16:47:16 I'm with Ypsidixit on this one--a church ditching Halloween for a Harvest Festival in the name of being less pagan? They really need to get a clue and learn some history. After all, hasn't Christianity spent the last thousand years trying to co-opt Halloween from "harvest festival" to "costume party"?* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-11 00:00:05 (mops forehead in relief) phew, thanks, Murph. Well, as you know, the Church got the quivers from the Celtic belief that Samhain was "the day that did not exist," the day when the veils between the worlds of the living and the dead were lowered, and the spirits of the ancestors walked the land for a night. That didn't fit in with the go-to-heaven thing. So they gave it a PR spin by turning it into All Saints Day, but several of us remain unimpressed with the marketing campaign.* * * * * * * * * * * * Vince Prygoski - 2004-10-11 14:29:52 And Christianity also turned Yule into Christmas, and Spring Equinox (or Ostara) into Easter.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-11 14:35:06 Ostara...doesn't that mean "east"? I don't know much about Ostara--thanks for giving me a new and interesting topic to investigate, Vince.* * * * * * * * * * * * leighton - 2004-10-11 16:13:14 Those who ignore the past are doomed to repeat it. Heh, doomed. I bet these are the same people who believe Jesus might be of Anglo-Saxon decent.* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-11 16:28:23 Speaking about questionable religious identities, I just listened to a beautiful Laurie Anderson story the other day on CD about the idea that one of the purported writers of the Gospels, called "J.," was a woman, because the God depicted in her sections is vengeful, intolerant, and generally unmerciful and unforgiving. Laurie imagined her "scribbling away" in Jerusalem and laughing. * * * * * * * * * * * * Murph - 2004-10-12 20:52:59 You laugh, Leighton, but it's true! Jesus was the bastard son of a Viking and a Welsh woman. They got blown off course (and back in time) on the way back to Norway and ended up in Taiwan. Oh, yes, you didn't know? Jesus didn't *actually* live in Jerusalem. That's just a typo in the King James edition...* * * * * * * * * * * * Laura - 2004-10-13 09:12:37 And they say history is uninteresting.* * * * * * * * * * * * add your comment: |