Christianity has been on the attack in many countries around the world and now it is becoming stronger here as more and more people from those countries come here. They say they come here to escape the oppression from their countries, but instead they bring those same beliefs here. The politically correct crowd threatens people with their views and people are so afraid of offending someone they cave in. This is especially true with muslims after 9/11. People are so afraid of offending muslims now they cave into them.
Recently I heard a radio report about a dept. store somewhere that refused to put up Christmas trees for fear of offending someone so they were putting up pointsettas because they don't offend anyone they said. In another case, The Chase Bank in Southlake,Texas ordered a man to take down a Christmas tree he arranged with the bank manager to put up in their lobby because it would offend some people. The man was the owner of a nearby spa and the manager was one of his best customers. He asked her first and she agreed. He installed a nine foot tree and decorated it himself with proper Christmas decorations and now he has to take it down because it might offend someone. He was outraged and said he has 35 trees he decorates on his property where his spa is and his landlord who is a lawyer let's him put up a tree in his office and he's jewish. If these people say putting up Christmas trees might offend someone well then I'm offended they don't have one up.
In another situation, Atheists have erected a billboard outside the Lincoln tunnel in North Bergen, N.J. that shows the three wise men approaching the manger and says , "You Know it's a myth.This season celebrate reason." then it says sponsered by the American Atheists and gives a web address. FOX News reporeted it after several people found it offensive. Unfortunately they are entitled under the first amendment, but there's always someone who's going to be offended by something no matter what side you are on.
JosephFarah of WorldNet Daily was angry at the billboard company because this was the same company that denied him access to putting up his "Where's the Birth Certificate" signs for Obama that a different company is putting up for him now.
The organization calls the biblical account in Genesis of Adam and Eve a "fable," and argues since that story was made up, "then Original Sin is also a myth, right?" "All we are asking is that you take what you know into serious consideration, even if it means taking a hard look at all you've been taught for your whole life. No Adam and Eve means no need for a savior. It also means that the Bible cannot be trusted as a source of unambiguous, literal truth It (sic) is completely unreliable, because it all begins with a myth, and builds on that as a basis. No Fall of Man means no need for atonement and no need for a redeemer. You know it." Further, the group claims, "Christians don't own this holiday, and never did. Christianity is neither the first, nor the 5th, nor the 10th mythology to adopt the Winter Solstice as their major day. Mythra, Bel, Krishna, Horus, and even the Mayan Qetzalcoatl were all born on the Winter Solstice."
It was the second time, at least, Lamar has slammed Christianity. Previously, it posted the message "Are you good without God?." But when the "birth certificate" billboard campaign was launched by WND founder and CEO Joseph Farah, Lamar spokesman Hal Kilshaw told WND his company was "just not going to accept that copy." "We think it's a settled matter," he told WND at the time. "We think it's misleading to indicate there's any question about the president's birth certificate. We looked at it and we made the call.""We don't have any reason to distrust," he said.
The slam against God, however, is "not a question of a fact; just a point of view from people," he said.
Clear Channel also rejected the "birth certificate" question. The "code of industry principles as a guide for content" from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America includes the industry's support for the First Amendment, and calls on companies to "Observe Highest Free Speech Standards." (Highest free speech standards? Then why did they reject WND's billboards if not for free speech?)
WND has reported on dozens of legal challenges to Obama's status as a "natural born citizen." The Constitution, Article 2, Section 1, states, "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President." Some of the lawsuits, including those reaching the Supreme Court, question whether he was actually born in Hawaii, as he insists. If he was born out of the country, Obama's American mother, the suits contend, was too young at the time of his birth to confer American citizenship to her son under the law at the time. Other challenges have focused on Obama's citizenship through his father, a Kenyan subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom at the time of his birth, thus making him a dual citizen. The cases contend the framers of the Constitution excluded dual citizens from qualifying as natural born. Others argue one cannot be a "natural born" citizen without two citizen parents. Farah says the billboard campaign is at last part of the reason early in 2009 only half the nation even was aware of a controversy over Obama's billboards, but recent polls indicate six in 10 Americans no longer fully believe Obama's birth narrative
Chase Bank orders branch to remove Christmas tree...
Sunday, December 5, 2010
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If atheists and non-Christians have First Amendment rights, then why don't Christians have them too? Why is it that in this country, which was founded under the Judeo-Christian beliefs, the only lack of tolerance is for Christians who might be offended by those who wish to deny them the right to practice their Christian beliefs?
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