According to church lore, St. Monica shed tears for her son, Augustine, who strayed from the Christian faith. A city with a beautiful name in California has now banned the display of a nativity scene this Christmas. A 58-year tradition is gone and with it, right to of the city’s residents to celebrate their faith.
The atheists’ excuse is that the nativity scene constitutes an “establishment of religion,” which the Constitution only forbids Congress from doing. But in a post-modern world in which the ends clearly justify even evil means and loud dishonesty trumps all, well, judges do whatever the hell they want and the majority of the American people really have no say in how our lives are run anymore.
Yet the town that can no longer show a nativity scene retains its name — Santa Monica. Saint Monica. How long before atheists sue to change it? And Los Angeles (“the angels)? And San Francisco (named after Saint Francis of Assisi)? And San Antonio (named for Saint Anthony)? And on and on and on and on.
The atheists had better get busy. They have an awful lot of Stalinist airbrushing to get done.
They could succeed in squashing Christianity in the United States. GQ’s question to Marco Rubio about the age of the earth is, among other things, part of the overall drive to push Christians from the public and political spheres forever through ridicule. It has been done successfully in other lands and in other times. Americans are no less human and as Obama’s re-election proves, no longer wiser than others in choosing our leaders. The judge’s ruling is a symptom of an underlying and potentially fatal cultural disease.
But the errant Augustine changed his ways and become one of the titans of the early church. Currently there are by some estimates 100 million Christians thriving in the illegal churches in China. Japanese, Korean and other Christians smuggle Bibles to them every year, despite the Communist government’s threats to imprison them if they’re captured.
Oddly enough, the secular city has failed to address why its employees are allowed special wages, benefits and days off of work surrounding the celebration of certain religious holidays. One might be compelled to ask the city governance and legal staff, if there is some form of double standard at work in the City of Santa Monica.
I don’t understand why the atheists involved in this have to be assholes. If you look at their little display from last year, it wasn’t funny, it was offensive and rudely derided every single religion represented. None of THOSE religions did anything anti-anybody, just quietly celebrated THEIR particular beliefs. Couldn’t the atheists ~ if they absolutely HAD to have their say ~ just put a sign in their cubby that said “Or not?” But no. THEY had to be dicks.
Proof in the pudding no CLUE what the season’s about.
After a law, plainly calling for a “penalty” for refusing to do what a strict Constitutional application forbids the Federal Government from requiring, may be adjudicated as a -legitimate- “tax”, then ….
Seems to me like all of the country’s hippies of yore moved to Cal after it got too cold for them elsewhere. If they live long enough, they’ll be baffled to see the muzzies take over and rename St.Monica as Aishatown, or some such. That “religion of peace” will then punch their faces, or worse, should they object. Come to think, it will serve them right!
Memo for Atheists:
It took the Church over 300 years to triumph over the Romans.
It took the Catholic Spanish nearly 800 years to drive out the Moors.
Christianity has survived Hitler, Stalin, and Mao.
And the Church will be around long after the atheists in Santa Monica die and go to Nothing.
Roger, why let the local hoodlums go to waste – no need for dearborn west! Hopefully some sureno is also a descendant of los cristeros a and will supply the punch in the face.
Good point. — Hoods o’ da hood, unite! Support your community…for a change!
I really hope these atheists don’t take Christmas off work. Hate to get all caught up in that paid legal holiday church/state violation. Right?
Well, Augustine was the epitome of irrationalism (It’s absurd, therefore I believe it).
What goes around, comes around. (This is “progressive”?)
That was Tertullian, wasn’t it? Pretty sure it wasn’t Augustine.
Then again, what do I know? I’m Jewish.
A very merry Christmas to all the faithful Christians out there, whether some a@@&*le judge approves or not!
Per Wikipedia: “Credo quia absurdum is a Latin phrase of uncertain origin. It means “I believe because it is absurd” It is derived from a poorly remembered or misquoted passage in Tertullian’s De Carne Christi defending the tenets of orthodox Christianity against docetism.” Neither Tertullian nor Augustine appears to have said it.
– to miracles?
– on your lawns. Where there would have been one for the town, now let there be hundreds.
Monica stands as a role model for modern parents who send their children off to college and then have trouble recognizing what returns. All the trendy ideas of the day were far more attractive to the young Augustine than his mother’s pious Christianity but she never gave up trying to get her son to come back around to her view of the world.
This is a relief. A website for rational, intellectual, (some) Christian folks, and others who have not lost their minds! Truly something for which to be thankful tomorrow (and today)! So, for a contemporary philosophical look at St. Augustine’s theory of knowledge, check out Dr. Ronald Nash’s The Light of the Mind. Here: http://www.amazon.com/LIGHT-MIND-RONALD-H-NASH/dp/0788099175/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353506067&sr=1-3
I gotta go to work – half-day, I’m a government bureaucrat (but, in Texas, so I’m special! Hah!) Ya’ll have a great Thanksgiving!
Don’t worry guys.
The lefties will show a lot of respect for “religion”.
When it will be islam.
They just hate the Western Tradition, that’s all.
Ah, those Leftists who so exuberantly embrace the authentically oppressed third world indigenous Islamic militants and their beloved Shari’a!!! They clearly would love us if only we threw all Republicans into prison…
Looks as if none of them have bothered checking to see how their Communist, Leftist, Marxist comrades were murdered, imprisoned and executed first by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, then later by the Islamic Revolutionary Republic.
Poor dumb bastards.
Just like the union dupes that never have grasped that every Communist / Marxist government once it has seized power has among its first acts OUTLAWED STRIKES and made them crimes against the people.
Maybe they think those stories are all just lies from Capitalist newspapers and RightWing textbooks.