Hey, look at this:Im sure that if this woman would only sit down and discuss the matter with the Spring Hare she would feel differently.
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One reason a city would have an interest in promoting Easter is sales. For most retail stores this is the second largest shopping season and since cities depend heavily on sales taxes, in Illinois at least, anything they can do to draw people to their town helps their bottom line, therefore I believe the promotion of Easter by a city is entirely appropriate. I agree that the beef should be with the city and not the woman who complained. If you donāt like the way your city, county, state, school board, etc. is being run the best place to voice your dissatisfaction is the ballot box.
I agree. Itās just about commercialization and takes away from the true meaning of Easter.
But Easter bunny has nothing to do with the Christian holiday Easter.
I agree. I have a lot of respect for Jewish people because Jewish holidays still focus mainly on religious aspects, not commercialization. Christmas has long ago been ruined by commercialization, and Easter is almost as bad. Letās restore Easter to its true meaning.
Thatās because the Jews donāt make up a majority of the population in the US. So they donāt have a large effect on the gross sales of a store. If you go to a Jewish neighborhood you will see that they do have sales on stuff around their holidays. At least that is true in the Chicago area. I would bet that the Jewish holidays are big sales times in Israel. Donāt get me wrong about the commercialization of Christian holidays, I abhore it as much as anyone and donāt over buy at those times. I do buy gifts for my grandkids and kids but I donāt go crazy.
He didnāt want the trees taken down. He wanted Menorah put up. His intent was not to have the airport remove the trees and when they did so, he withdrew the lawsuit so they could put them back up.
Actually they put the trees back up because of the protest by the airport employees.
Actually, the trees were put back after the airport employees protested their removal.
I tried to find out but could not find any info about this. Do you know if he asked to have a menorah put up or did he just file a lawsuit? Did they also put up a menorah after he withdrew his suit?
He wanted a Menorah, not the trees removed. But the airport felt there wasnāt enough time to do that so they pulled the trees to avoid litigation. When they did that, he withdrew the suit saying that was never his intent. THe airport then put the trees back up. I think that next year there will be a Menorah with the trees. Or at least they will be in dialoug to try and work out a solution.
Except when we ask to take them down. Then all of a sudden it is an attack on Christanity. Canāt have it both ways.
Iām speaking to the fact that the Rabbi equates Christmas trees with the religious observance of the birth of Christ. He wants to put a religious article, a menorah, next to a non-religious decoration that is put up in homes of Christians *and *non-Christians. If he wants to see a religious item, like a menorah, added to the display then I want to see a religious item like the creche (which depicts the scene in Bethlehem) on display. The articles that I posted mention that Christmas trees, menorahs and Kwanzaa candles are all displayed together without disturbance elsewhere across the country. The irony is that the only religious article on display in such a circumstance is the menorah. I donāt understand why he, or you, see the menorah as equivalent to a Christmas tree. How about a Christmas tree and some sort of display with white and blue lights and garland? That would be more equivalent to a tree. This whole thing is really silly. Thank God our country is prosperous and peaceful enough that people like the lady in Walnut Creek and the Rabbi in Seattle have so much free time on their hands.
