<DIV>Chas wrote:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"The single Satanist I have known who believed that Satan was an actual<BR>being often said to me: "Remember that history is written by the<BR>victor." Meaning, of course, that he believed that God was the<BR>victor, who had given Satan a bum rap."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>History is written by the victory because because the loser is dead. Satan is very much still alive, but also, very much still a loser. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"First, God is significantly more popular in this country than He is in<BR>any country in the Western world."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Most countries and people in the world celebrate and include God to a greater extent then the US and Western World. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> Second, the "Merry Christmas"<BR>claim is false. Wal-Mart and Target (and probably other retailers)<BR>have encouraged their employees to say "Happy Holidays," </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My
understanding was that Wal-Mart was one of the few that didn't stop saying Merry Christmas. I have been to plenty of stores that will not say Merry Christmas, but only say Happy Holidays</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I know UI stopped calling the Christmas Tree a Christmas Tree. They call it something like a holiday tree or something. There is also the "Tree of Hope", no more "Christmas Tree" like somehow this makes people feel less offended?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best Regards,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Donovan <BR><BR><BR><B><I>Chasuk <chasuk@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:58 PM, Donovan Arnold<BR><DONOVANJARNOLD2005@YAHOO.COM>wrote:<BR><BR>> Satan's greatest trick was to convince people that he doesn't exist. I think<BR>> Satanism, is, for the most part, the same as Atheism.<BR><BR>The single
Satanist I have known who believed that Satan was an actual<BR>being often said to me: "Remember that history is written by the<BR>victor." Meaning, of course, that he believed that God was the<BR>victor, who had given Satan a bum rap.<BR><BR>> Atheists are best at doing this. They have made God very unpopular in this<BR>> country. You cannot even say, "Merry Christmas" without subjecting yourself<BR>> to a potential lawsuit.<BR><BR>First, God is significantly more popular in this country than He is in<BR>any country in the Western world. Second, the "Merry Christmas"<BR>claim is false. Wal-Mart and Target (and probably other retailers)<BR>have encouraged their employees to say "Happy Holidays," but only for<BR>the purpose of including Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and New<BR>Year's Eve -- as well as Christmas, and not instead of Christmas.<BR><BR>Certain groups have misrepresented the situation. Here is what the<BR>ACLU has to
say:<BR><BR>********************************************************************************************<BR><BR>Of course, there is no "Merry Christmas" lawsuit, nor is there any<BR>ACLU litigation about U.S. currency, military chaplains, etc. But the<BR>facts are not important to these groups, because their real message is<BR>this: By protecting the freedom of Muslims, Jews, and other<BR>non-Christians through preventing government entanglement with<BR>religion, the ACLU is somehow infringing on the rights of those with<BR>majority religious beliefs.<BR><BR>In truth, it is these website Christians who are taking the Christ out<BR>of the season. Nowhere in the Sermon on the Mount did Jesus Christ ask<BR>that we celebrate His birth with narrow-mindedness and intolerance,<BR>especially for those who are already marginalized and persecuted.<BR>Instead, the New Testament—like the Torah and the Koran and countless<BR>other sacred texts—commands us to love our neighbor, and to
comfort<BR>the sick and the imprisoned.<BR><BR>That's what the ACLU does. We live in a country filled with people who<BR>are sick and disabled, people who are imprisoned, and people who<BR>hunger and thirst for justice. Those people come to... [us] for help,<BR>at a rate of several hundred a week, usually because they have nowhere<BR>else to turn... So, as often as we can, ACLU secures justice for those<BR>folks who Jesus worried for the most.<BR><BR>********************************************************************************************<BR><BR>> Separation of Church from State was designed to protect our religion from<BR>> being indoctrinated and controlled by the government, not to weed God out of<BR>> our daily lives and thinking, which is what is happening, sadly, all over<BR>> this country, and you can see the negative impact it is having.<BR><BR>That is too big of a can of worms to want to examine right now. Maybe<BR>in a separate thread,
later.<BR><BR>Chas<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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