Jesus Is The Reason For The Season

[The Retard]

Jesus Is The Reason For The Season (http://www.wral.com/news/5532271/detail.html)

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Everyone celebrates religion and holidays in their own individual ways, but currently there are questions about whether the two should be more connected. One of the latest places involved in the controversy is a McDonald's restaurant in Raleigh.

The sign at McDonald's on the corner of Falls of Neuse and Spring Forest Road reads: "Merry Christmas, Jesus is the Reason for the Season." It is a holiday message that Amanda Alpert thinks comes on a little too strongly.

"It offends me because it specifically talks about Jesus, Merry Christmas. It doesn't give credit to anyone else," Alpert said.

Alpert called the McDonald's corporate office in Atlanta and requested that the sign be changed to the politically correct Happy Holidays. The response was the owner has the right to do what she wants with the sign.

"I care because I'm Jewish, and the reason for the season is upsetting to me," Alpert said

None of the drivers WRAL spoke to were offended by the sign.

"I've always known it to be Merry Christmas, and it is Jesus' birthday," said Tom David of Smithfield.

It's a debate that's struck a chord nationally and locally. The White House Christmas card surprised some with its "Happy Holiday Season" message. A proposed nativity scene in Raleigh recently drew a crowd at council chambers.

McDonald's managers say the sign has been good for business. They say church groups have stopped by to eat, and some people who usually don't eat food from McDonald's have stopped by because of the sign. The store's owner did not return WRAL's calls.

[daisy]

i don't know anything about jewish holidays. i wish you would explain to me some what kind of christmas jewish people celebrate. has christmas always been uncomfortable for jewish people all these many years?

[The Retard]

A sour note for choir at Wal-Mart (http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lising164552816dec16,0,3421875,print.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines)
BY CHRISTINE ARMARIO
STAFF WRITER

December 16, 2005

A festive group of high school choir students from Central Islip singing at an Islandia shopping center discovered over the weekend that some people were not in the holiday spirit.

After entering a Wal-Mart store, the choir was quickly asked to leave before even starting to sing its first song.

The Central Islip High School concert choir had just finished a performance at the United Methodist Church off Veterans Memorial Highway, when the students proposed to go caroling in the shopping center across the street.

Their director, John Anthony, approved the move and the group of about 30 students found warm welcomes at the Stop & Shop grocery store and other shops in the center. That is, until they entered Wal-Mart.

Right away, a store manager approached the award-winning group, announcing that they did not have an appointment and that the sheer size of the group posed a fire hazard, Anthony said.

The teens then sang one song - "Guide Me," a classic Welsh tune - to the delight of the customers.

"Sing more!" Anthony said the shoppers were screaming. But Wal-Mart was adamant and even called police. The students left peacefully before police arrived and no arrests were made.

The choir's merriment quickly disintegrated, the director said. "The kids were just 'Bah humbug!'" he added.

Wal-Mart officials released a statement this week saying the choir's appearance was unscheduled and created a fire code violation. "For their safety and the safety of our customers, we asked them to move," the statement read.

Wal-Mart has offered the school an opportunity for the choir to return at a scheduled time. The store also made an undisclosed donation toward the choir's trip next summer to Austria, where they will be one of three student choirs from the United States to perform at a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's birth.

[RikuDrak]

It offends me because it specifically talks about Jesus, Merry Christmas. It doesn't give credit to anyone else," Alpert said.

Only in the US...

i don't know anything about jewish holidays. i wish you would explain to me some what kind of christmas jewish people celebrate. has christmas always been uncomfortable for jewish people all these many years?

Of course not. Liberal political correctness is getting way out of hand. Or maybe it's just that the entire country is turning more and more jewish, and they are always the victims of some kind of oppression.

...and that the sheer size of the group posed a fire hazard, Anthony said.

...Because groups of singing teenagers are prone to spontaneous combustion?

Had that been a large group of customers, I'm sure they wouldn't be posing a "fire hazard."

[Starr]

"I care because I'm Jewish, and the reason for the season is upsetting to me," Alpert said

Filthy goyum. I am a jew, a chosenite. always a victim and I must endlessly whine like a little bitch because everything is so upsetting to me. Thousands of years of oppression, oy vey! and never again,etc,etc,etc.

[Ambrosio Spinola]

Glory to him!

[raven]

Filthy goyum. I am a jew, a chosenite. always a victim and I must endlessly whine like a little bitch because everything is so upsetting to me. Thousands of years of oppression, oy vey! and never again,etc,etc,etc.
The jew went from rotting in Eastern Europe 100 years ago to becoming the most wealthiest and most influential at the corporate level and in the media. What more do these leeches want from us? Haven't they milked out the holocaust enough? Oy Vey!

[daisy]

jews becoming the most wealthiest
they suck that money up like a big ole vacum cleaner

[Eisenhans]

i don't know anything about jewish holidays. i wish you would explain to me some what kind of christmas jewish people celebrate. has christmas always been uncomfortable for jewish people all these many years?
It's like this: The jews take a whole week and dedicate it to lighting candles on some funky looking candlestick, spinning a clay box on the ground, and singing about gischka sticksha or whatever yids speak.

Stupid jews.

[Anima Eternae]

jews did wtc and race mixing lol

[Eisenhans]

I don't know what wtc is, but they do encourage race mixing. Look at modern society.

[Helios Panoptes]

WTC = World Trade Center

[Anarch]

@ Ebus: Yes, Jesus certainly saves. Moses, however, invests ;)

[albion]

The Christmas Hoax: Jesus is NOT the "Reason for the Season"
by Acharya S

The December 25th birthday of the sun god is a common
motif globally, dating back at least 12,000 years as
reflected in winter solstices artfully recorded in
caves. "Nearly all nations," says Doane, commemorated
the birth of the god Sol to the "Queen of Heaven" and
"Celestial Virgin." The winter solstice was celebrated
in countless places, including China and Persia, the
latter regarding the solar Lord and Savior Mithra's
birth. The winter solstice festival in Egypt included
the babe in a manger brought out of the sanctuary.

Ancient Greeks celebrated the birthday of Hercules and
Dionysus on this date, as the ancient authority
Macrobius (c. 400 AD/CE) maintained. Even the Greek
father god, Zeus, was supposedly born at the winter
solstice. The "Christmas" festival was celebrated at
Athens and was called "the Lenaea," during which time,
apparently, "the death and rebirth of the harvest
infant Dionysus were similarly dramatized." This
Lenaea festival is depicted in an Aurignacian
cave-painting in Spain, with a "young Dionysus with
huge genitals," standing naked in the middle of "nine
dancing women." The Aurignacian period extended from
34,000 to 23,000 years ago.

The Greco-Syrian sun god Adonis--the "Adonai" of the
Bible--was also born on December 25th, a festival
"spoken of by Tertullian, Jerome, and other Fathers of
the Church, who inform us that the ceremonies took
place in a cave, and that the cave in which they
celebrated his mysteries in Bethlehem, was that in
which Christ Jesus was born."

Nor is the winter solstice celebration a purely
"Pagan" concept, as the Jews also observed it in
reference to the birth of their god, Yahweh. The
"Feast of Illumination," "Feast of Lights" or "feast
of the Dedication," occurred in winter (John 10:22-23;
Josephus's Antiquities XIII, 7.7) and represented the
"ancient Hebrew Winter Solstice Feast." The legend of
Chanukah was created by the Talmudist authors in order
"to conceal the antiquity of the feast, which was
originally Jehovah's birthday as the Sun-God."
Moreover, this solar birthday dates back to "at least
as early as the time of Nehemiah (Maccabees, I, 18)."

Indians for millennia have celebrated the winter
solstice, as a cardinal point, the new year and,
presumably, the birth of the sun god. In the Indian
solstice celebration--a "great religious
festival"--there is "rejoicing everywhere." As in the
West, the Indians "decorate their houses with
garlands, and make presents to friends and relatives,"
a "custom of very great antiquity." One way the
Brahman priests of Orissa have celebrated the solstice
is by carrying images of "the youthful Krishna to the
houses of their disciples and their patrons, to whom
they present some of the red powder and tar of roses,
and receive presents of money and cloth in return."
Thus, in India the winter solstice has been as much a
major holiday as it was anywhere, which is to be
expected in a land permeated with sun worship for
millennia.

Regarding the Persian sun god Mithra and his
sacrifice, in the 19th century respected Christian
author Rev. J.P. Lundy remarked:

"For let it be borne in mind that it was precisely at
the season of this sacrifice, near the beginning of
the new year, that the birth of Mithra was celebrated
over all Persia and the world, in temple-caves, on the
night of the 24th of December, the night of light.
Even the British Druids celebrated it, and called the
next day, the 25th of December, Nollagh or Noel, the
day of regeneration, celebrating it with great fires
on tops of their mountains. In fact, all nations, as
if by common consent, at the first moment after
midnight of the 24th of December, celebrated the birth
of the sun-god, type among the Gentiles of Christ, the
Incarnate Son of God, as the Desire of all nations and
the Saviour of the world."

Lundy was thus well aware of the sun gods, whom he
deemed "types of Christ," indicating Christ's solar
nature as well.

Concerning the winter solstice festival in Ireland,
the author of "Christian Mythology Unveiled" relates:

"The Baal-fire feast, or meeting, was a great festival
in Ireland, on the 25th of December, and midsummer
eve. Baal, or Bel, was a name of the sun all over the
east."

It is important to note that the "December 25th"
birthdate only applies to the age and hemisphere in
which the winter solstice falls on December 21-24. In
other ages, the solstice month is different, changing
with the precession of the equinoxes every 2150 years.

The December 25th birthdate is that of the sun, not a
"real person," revealing its unoriginality within
Christianity and the true nature of the Christian
godman. "Christmas" was not incorporated into
Christianity until 354 AD/CE. In reality, there is no
evidence, no primary sources which show that "Jesus is
the reason for the season."

Happy Solstice!

Excerpted from "Suns of God: Krishna, Buddha and Christ Unveiled"
http://www.truthbeknown.com/sunsofgod.htm

[daisy]

thanks albion. you are very intelligent!
i want to add this link too
the crimes of frosty the snowman
http://www.pacificresearch.org/pub/con/2001/01-01-19.html

[Petr]

Albion, do you really take the ramblings of that nutcase "Acharya S" even remotely seriously?


Petr

[Dionysus]

I don't believe Jesus died for my sins.

Lucifer: @ Ebus: Yes, Jesus certainly saves. Moses, however, invests;) Lol.:p

[zenero]

jews did wtc and race mixing lolYou were part of the Jewish lebensborn program. But they made a failure, they wanted to mix you're White mom/dad with a Negro man or female.