[Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol

Ted Moffett starbliss at gmail.com
Mon Dec 7 02:34:52 PST 2009


>From website below, an excerpt (and much more, it appears) from an
introduction to the book "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller... A man who
would settle for nothing less than "Christmas on Earth."

http://books.google.com/books?id=ZKsZfSSDuEgC&pg=PR25&lpg=PR25&dq=henry+miller+christmas+on+earth&source=bl&ots=MQ44-o5W1_&sig=Un0Me85PoPZxARnfuqC9wqfDj2U&hl=en&ei=ZdIcS9OwDIigsgP08s32Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false

"We create our fate," says Miller. And better still: "Forget, forgive,
renounce, abdicate."  And "scrap the past instantly."  Live the good life
instantly; it's now or never, and has always been.

Miller is ''irresponsible" as far as officials and popular politics go, or
as far as common church morality goes, and as far as literary manners go.
But he is not a poseur, he has no program, yet he has a deep and pure sense
of morality.  I would call him a total revolutionary, the man who would
settle for nothing less than "Christmas on Earth."  In his remarkable study
of Rimbaud, a prose poem of one hundred and fifty pages called "The Time of
the Assassins," Miller discourses on the spiritual suicide of modern youth
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett


On 12/6/09, Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2008 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>   We just want to celebrate Winter Solstice, as all days he gives us, with
> Christ. :P
> Inclusiveness is the better way.
>
> Merry Christmas and Happy Holydays,
>
> Donovan Arnold
>
> --- On *Sun, 12/6/09, Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
>
>
> From: Paul Rumelhart <godshatter at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol
> To: "Donovan Arnold" <donovanjarnold2008 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>, "Tom Hansen" <
> thansen at moscow.com>
> Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 5:33 PM
>
>
> Almost as much as when they try to ruin my winter solstice :)
>
> Paul
>
> Donovan Arnold wrote:
> > Don't ya just hate it when groups try to ruin your Christmas?
> >
> > Merry Christmas and Happy Holydays,
> >
> > Donovan Arnold
> >
> > --- On *Sun, 12/6/09, Tom Hansen /<thansen at moscow.com<http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thansen@moscow.com>>/*
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >     From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com<http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=thansen@moscow.com>
> >
> >     Subject: [Vision2020] Atheists Want Sign at Capitol
> >     To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com<http://us.mc447.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=vision2020@moscow.com>
> >
> >     Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 2:09 PM
> >
> >     “In this holiday season let us remember that kindness, charity and
> >     goodwill transcend belief, creed or religion.”
> >
> >     Courtesy of today's (December 6, 2009) Spokesman Review.
> >
> >     ------------------------------------------------
> >
> >     Atheists want sign at Capitol
> >     Seattle group’s request coincides with tree-lighting
> >
> >     OLYMPIA – A Seattle-based atheists group asked state officials
> >     Friday for
> >     permission to display a placard outdoors on the Capitol campus
> >     over the
> >     holidays.
> >
> >     Jerry Schiffelbein, the treasurer for Seattle Atheists and an
> >     activist in
> >     other “free-thought” groups that advocate separation between
> >     church and
> >     state, said the sign’s message is less provocative than those that
> the
> >     Wisconsin-based Freedom From Religion Foundation put up last year.
> >
> >     The proposed 18-by-30-inch sign says, “In this holiday season let us
> >     remember that kindness, charity and goodwill transcend belief,
> >     creed or
> >     religion.”
> >
> >     The request to put up the sign came the day that state officials
> >     lit up a
> >     48-foot holiday tree inside the domed Capitol rotunda, a yearly
> >     tradition
> >     now entirely under state sponsorship. The evening event featured Gov.
> >     Chris Gregoire; Army Staff Sgt. Stephanie McDowell, who recently
> >     returned
> >     from Iraq; and a children’s chorale.
> >
> >     The atheists’ request – just like two requests to display a Jewish
> >     menorah
> >     Thursday through Dec. 19 – will be considered under the state policy
> >     adopted after last December’s ruckus over holiday displays inside the
> >     Capitol, Department of General Administration spokesman Steve
> Valandra
> >     said Friday. He expects a decision on the requests Monday.
> >
> >     “We thought we would get more requests. There is still time,” he
> said.
> >
> >     Last December, the GA declared a moratorium because it had about a
> >     dozen
> >     requests from groups wanting to put up displays, and a third-floor
> >     area
> >     for displays was getting crowded. The GA had approved a half-dozen
> >     of the
> >     requests, including a Nativity set, an atheist placard that mocked
> >     religion as superstition, Christian placards that mocked atheism,
> >     and a
> >     9-foot menorah.
> >
> >     Requests halted by the moratorium included a “Festivus” pole from
> >     the mock
> >     holiday celebrated on the TV show “Seinfeld,” a “flying spaghetti
> >     monster,” and one from a Kansas church that assails homosexuality.
> >
> >     Before the controversy ended, someone stole the atheists’ placard.
> >     Thousands of complaints flooded the governor’s office and the GA
> >     after a
> >     national television commentator condemned the state for allowing the
> >     atheists’ display near the Nativity scene.
> >
> >     The GA has approved one display request so far this year. It was
> >     one of
> >     two submitted by Chabad Jewish Discovery Center in Olympia for a
> >     9-foot
> >     menorah. The approved request is for Sylvester Park, a state-owned
> >     property in downtown Olympia; the other is for a menorah next to the
> >     Tivoli Fountain on the campus lawn.
> >
> >     ------------------------------------------------
> >
> >     Seeya round town, Moscow.
> >
> >     Tom Hansen
> >     Moscow, Idaho
> >
> >     "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it
> >     to change
> >     and the Realist adjusts his sails."
> >
> >     - Unknown
> >
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