Holiday Trees
We live in a time of religious war. Western civilization is under attack by militant Islam. At the same time, incredibly, there is an attempt, in the west, to denigrate the importance of our own religions. One indication is the recent disappearence of the word Allah in news reports. Bombers who shout "Allah is great!" are now described as saying "God is great!" As if there were no difference between the God of the Bible and Allah, the god described in the Koran.
Now we have the move to dechristianize Christmas?!
Just when Jews and Christians need to need to rediscover the truths, traditions, and strengths of our two sister faiths.
Shocking!
Labels: Christmas, Holidays, Islam
11 Comments:
Too bad. In the New Jersey town where I live now, the Christmas tree is lit, and the giant Hanukah menorah will go up next to it soon.
They stand alongside the Town Hall, which has a Christmas display in front of the 9/11 memorial out front.
A beautiful holiday season to everyone: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and a happy New Year, too! :-)
Bones I agree with you !! Happy Chanukah !
"As if there were no difference between the God of the Bible and Allah, the god described in the Koran." ___Is there a difference? They seem to me to be two descriptions of the same thing. The Muslim concept of a single God is clearly based on the Jewish concept.
Don,
Something that is "based on" is not the same as the thing it is "based on".
We have in the Bible a diety which Jews and Christians accept as being God.
We have in the Koran a diety called Allah which Muslims accept as being God.
That does not mean that the two are the same God. The message of the god of the Koran is not the message of the god of the Bible.
Dry Bones
I heartily agree Yaakov. Much has been written on how Islam began, it's roots (doctrinally) and origin of the word Allah, etc. Seems to have more to do with a Moon God named Allah from ancient Arabic mystery religions. Definitely, what you said is true, the message of the god of Islam is not the same message of the one true God of Abraham that is displayed in the Bible.
Judaism and Islam are no less sisterly than Islam and Christianity. And the fundamentalist varieties of all three are on the offensive against rationalism and peace.
Fundamentalist Jews and Muslims in Israel are successfully collaborating to kill good will and peace efforts. Fanatic Christians in America are hard at work at intensifying the global war on terror, together with their Al-Qaeda counterparts world-wide.
There is no war between faiths, but a struggle between those who wish to live in a peaceful and tolerant society and those who use religion to justify violence.
However, the fundamentalist Jews do not attempt to murder the innocent. Nor have they declared war on civilization. Indeed the anti religious, self-hating, secularist Jews have declared war on them by attempting to destroy chareidi society.
It is the fundamentalist Christians in the US who are resisting the Muslim attempts to reduce everyone to dhimmi status as opposed to the liberal left who are refusing to see what is going on while pushing the "politically correct" doctrine of surrender.
You can see the results of their actions in Europe.
Change the man ,you change the family.
Change the family you change the community.
Change the community you change the country.
This how they plan to defeat us.
When the alliance of Christens for Jews have never been closer.
The illogical left will side with radical Islam in order to hasten the demise of of us all
One will supply the intellectual punch to our culture.
One will supply the violence.
Interesting to note:" [I]t is possible to recognize, right down to the choice of words, what was true of many elements of the National Socialist Christmas: the formal adoption of Christian ritual combined with a complete change in content.
[...]
None of these carefully coordinated contributions made any reference to the purely Christian elements of Christmas. Indeed, starting with the language and going on to customs and ideological content, they were all systematically replaced. Christmas carols taken from hymn books turned up with the familiar tunes, but National Socialist texts; in place of the Christmas chapters from the Gospels, 'German fairy-tales' were offered for reading aloud to convey German mythology...and the Christ Child turned up under the name of the 'Child of Light.' "
(Christmas Under the Third Reich
By Esther Gajek
Anthropology Today, Vol. 6, No. 4. (Aug., 1990), pp. 4-5)
National unity?
Internationalist Leftists are little different when it comes to such things:" We want to sweep away everything that claims to be supernatural or superhuman, for the root of all untruth and lying is the pretension of the human and the natural to be superhuman and supernatural. For that reason we have once and for all declared war on religion and religious ideas . . . "
(Marx and Engels, Collected Works, Vol. 6, :103)
Another similarity: Marxism and anti-Semitism
Perfect Yaakov!
I posted a couple times on this issue in support of Christmas. Here are the 2 articles.
http://mnblogger.com/2005/12
/wtf-is-wrong-with-christmas.html
and
http://mnblogger.com/2005/12
/jews-for-christmas.html
As far as Allah and God and G-d being the same - take a look at my new series of articles called "Can Islam be saved?" First article is at
http://mnblogger.com/2005/12
/can-islam-be-saved.html
I will live in peace as long as people of other faiths let me do so. People of good will are not a problem, but people of bad will can be and often are. It is they who create problems through hate and animosity of those people who believe contrary to their belief system. By the way, I am a Unitarian.
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