Stop offending ME! ~ By Barbara Simpson

Write letters to officials, complain at meetings, get the media on the story, circulate petitions and if necessary, sue them.

Barbara Simpson has had it with the war on Christmas! She is offended by various officials being patsies, and bending over to satisfy those that are "offended" by anything that displays the Christian Christmas message:

That's my New Year's resolution – I'm going to be a holiday rabble-rouser. I'll let the powers that be know that I am offended.

I'm offended by "holiday" trees, decorations and Santa Claus visits for children that don't mention Christmas, the name of the holiday.

I'm an American. I pay taxes, and I'm tired of being dissed by spineless, elected officials who favor offended atheists and Muslims.

Can they hear me now? They'd better!

We may want to be asking what those that are "offended" by Christmas are really trying to accomplish. Could it just be that it's really a war on Christianity?

Stop offending ME!

BARBARA SIMPSON

By Barbara Simpson

December 27, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

I can't believe it! I'd just mailed a check to the Red Cross when I discovered they'd caved to "offended" Muslims. I'll certainly think twice before I write another such check.

Admittedly, the capitulation is by the British Red Cross not the American Red Cross, but I've decided that I'm not going to be a patsy anymore when there are such blatant examples of catering to our veiled and robed friends in the name of ecumenism.

The British Red Cross decided to remove Christmas decorations from all 430 of their fundraising shops on the outside chance Muslims, atheists and others might be offended by a public display recognizing the Christian Christmas holiday.

Really? They did it to protect the sensitivities of those possibly "offended" people? Or did they do it because they feared violent repercussions if they didn't cave to those sensitivities?

Or are they just so cowed by political correctness that they've lost their minds?

Am I the only one to find it strange that Muslims, who are subject to the tough rules of Islam as well as the very strong punishments for believers who break those rules, suddenly develop very thin skins and delicate sensitivities when exposed to visible signs of other religions in the public square?

Oh please.

Some members of this group find it serves their offended selves to riot, destroy, maim and kill in retaliation for perceived offenses against Muhammad – remember the Danish cartoon riots – but when Jews, and particularly Christians, want their religious holidays to be visible in the public square, they're shut down in no uncertain terms when Muslims and others object.

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Random acts of evil ~ By Patrice Lewis

My sincerest hope is that the importance and impact behind these events will be recognized for what they are – things of such deep and profound significance that paying heed can literally save our lives.

There is an old saying that the darkest hour is just before dawn. We are plunging into darkness with alarming speed. We have a lot of darkness to go through before we can see the light.

~ Patrice Lewis

After seeing the events of last Thursday (Dec. 9) in London, with the students rioting and attacking the car with Prince Charles and Camille riding in it, I felt like it was one of those dead canary moments that Patrice Lewis writes about in this column. Patrice asks, "Are we on the verge of a similarly devastating religious, economic or political upheaval?"

Patrice and her husband are not alone, as I also feel the darkness approaching rapidly.

(I hope that you will read the entire column, and not just the excerpts that I placed on this page. There is much more to this column than could be posted here. The link to the column is just below.)

Random acts of evil

PATRICE LEWIS

By Patrice Lewis

December 11, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Mining has always been a perilous occupation. One of the most insidious and invisible dangers comes from toxic gases that are heavier than air and therefore collect in low spots. These gases are lethal to miners because it can either poison them or explode with devastating consequences. For centuries it was the practice of miners to carry a caged canary into a mine with them. If the canary died, the miners knew there were gases present and it was too dangerous to remain.

Keep this in mind for a moment.

My husband came into my office on Thursday afternoon, visibly upset. "Do you know about the holy thorn tree of Glastonbury?" he asked.

"No, what is it?"

He told me the story of this remarkable tree. Legend has it that Joseph of Arimathea, who donated his own prepared tomb to lay the body of Jesus after the crucifixion, traveled to Britain after Jesus' death. On a hill by Glastonbury, he stuck his staff (which is said to have belonged to Jesus) into the ground before he went to sleep. When he woke up, the staff had sprouted into a thorn tree. This tree flowered twice a year, at Christmas and at Easter. It survived for centuries until it was chopped down by puritans during the English Civil War, but secret cuttings of the original tree were planted around the town. It was from one of those cuttings that a replacement tree was planted in the original spot.

In 1965, Queen Elizabeth erected a wooden cross at Glastonbury with the inscription: "The cross, the symbol of our faith, the gift of Queen Elizabeth II, marks a Christian sanctuary so ancient that only legend can record its origin."

The Glastonbury Thorn tree before being chopped down

"Today," my husband concluded grimly, "someone cut down the thorn tree."

The Glastonbury Thorn tree after being chopped down

I gasped. I seldom have the urge to roundly damn someone to hell, but this was one of those moments. It sickens me to think that someone is so filled with evil and hatred that they would cruelly destroy a prominent Christian symbol.

My husband is not normally subject to flights of fancy, but this act unsettled him. "This would never have happened 20 years ago," he muttered. "I don't care what antipathy someone feels against Christianity, this would never have happened 20 years ago."

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Christians: The new political lepers ~ By Pat Boone

Feeding off the campaign of intimidation, litigation and disinformation by the ACLU, the militant anti-religion Freedom from Religion Foundation has filed against Shirley Dobson, chairperson of the National Day of Prayer, claiming that the Day of Prayer creates a "hostile environment" for non-believers and that it "violates the First Amendment". read more | digg story

The Internet Is Killing Christianity. Why are Christians not fighting back?

It is obvious the Internet will be the center of our news, television, and gaming (and already is to a large part). With this knowledge, isn't it also obvious that whoever controls the information on the Internet will control the hearts and minds of the people? read more | digg story, submitted to digg.com by Junebug75

Letter from a future prisoner - By Janet Porter

I found this column tonight, almost a year after it was written by Janet Folger (now Janet Porter)- or should that be almost two years BEFORE it was written? At the moment most forms of Christianity are illegal in Islamic Nations and Communist nations (i.e. half of the earth). Adherents are imprisoned and/or put to death. Soon Biblical Christianity will be illegal in the Western World. This is because Christianity is about hatred, so they say, i.e. of evil. As child-killing and perversion is law, goodness is criminal. With the election coming in less than four weeks, and with Barack Obama being the Democrat candidate instead of Hillary Clinton, this column should be something to think about. Will we make the "same" mistake by voting for a 3rd Party candidate instead of John McCain, making it possible for Barack Obama to bring about what Janet prophetically wrote about a year ago? You decide!

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