tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164411038903080179.post4581828675035828578..comments2023-08-11T08:04:16.231-07:00Comments on New Minority: Coming out!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09860867689257635059noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164411038903080179.post-79823103497267217982008-06-09T04:33:00.000-07:002008-06-09T04:33:00.000-07:00I'm actually writing a post about Santa that shoul...I'm actually writing a post about Santa that should be done today. It really depends on how busy work is. I'm thinking that my wife and I are going teach it as a myth/fairy tale. Maybe we'll celebrate the winter solstice heathen style with a tree decorated in silver and gold. :) This is one of my favorite bible passages. It preaches tolerance of other's beliefs and against christmas trees. (Why does my computer want to capitalize christmas? Are holidays proper nouns?)<BR/><BR/> <B>Jeremiah 10:2-5 (King James Version)</B><BR/><I>2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.<BR/><BR/> 3For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.<BR/><BR/> 4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.<BR/><BR/> 5They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.</I>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09860867689257635059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6164411038903080179.post-31288876247703184442008-06-06T17:58:00.000-07:002008-06-06T17:58:00.000-07:00I guess I'm about a 3.5. I might be a 4 if I wasn...I guess I'm about a 3.5. I might be a 4 if I wasn't down here in Texas. Your comment about fundamentalist Christians down here was right on.<BR/><BR/>I went to the Parenting Beyond Belief post and saw your comments about Santa Claus. I didn't feel like setting up an account there to log in, so I'll leave my comment to that here on your blog. We did Santa Claus with my daughter when she was younger. It always made me uneasy, too, but I was just kind of following along with what I saw everybody else do. She figured it out a couple years ago, and boy was she mad. "You mean you've been lying to me for my entire life?" She still gets mad at us when she thinks about it. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't do Santa Claus at all. There's plenty of fun stuff about Christmas without having to pretend a jolly old elf is bringing presents.<BR/><BR/>As a little aside, one of our friends didn't do Santa with her daughter, but for completely different reasons. As soon as the girl heard that a man was going to sneak into their house at night, she freaked out about it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com