News & Comment - Christmas 2008
[This is borrowed from GetReligion.org at http://www.getreligion.org/?p=5561. It is worthy of our final 'Christmas' entry for this year.]
This Democrat and Chronicle (N.Y.) article caught my eye:
At the Church of the Assumption, part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester, packets containing a piece of chalk and a prayer were handed out during the service. Families took these packets home to write “20 CMB 09” above their front door with the chalk.
The numbers indicate the current year and “CMB” stands for the “Christus Mansionem Benedicat,” which — translated from Latin — means “May God bless this house.”
How bad does your Latin have to be to translate Christus as “God”?
Red-Letter Christians
by Tony Compolo
Reg: $19.99
Now: $14.99
Kent comments:
This Christmas, wrap Tony's latest bit of heresy up in green wrapping paper, and you have the perfect gift. The red letters are both festive, and, according to Tony, more important than the rest of the Bible. Beginning with that small but potent faulty idea, you will quickly find your way to all sorts of false theological conclusions. And all this is only $14.95. (Why, we might ask, does Tony not give away his book, thereby helping to redistribute the wealth? It is, after all, one of his favorite projects!)
MILWAUKEE - Camels are getting too pricey for live Christmas nativity scenes in Wisconsin and are being replaced by much cheaper donkeys and sheep, suppliers say. It may cost $2,100 to rent three camels on Christmas Eve for those wanting to stage live Christmas pageant nativity scenes, and hard times are prompting people to economize with $250 for six donkeys and sheep, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported Tuesday. "It goes up and down with the economy," Kathy Meyer, whose family owns Jo-Don Farms in Franksville, Wis., told the newspaper.
Kent comments:
Nativity scenes? Aren't those illegal now, anyway? If not, maybe the idiots in Congress can be persuaded to fund a 'camel bailout.'
Gay Group Organizes Christmas Festival Featuring Manger with Two Josephs
CNSNews, Monday, December 08, 2008
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch gay group has organized a "Pink Christmas" festival for the first time in Amsterdam, featuring a manger stall with two Josephs and two Marys. Other attractions in the 10-day festival include parties, an open-air market, gay-themed films, an ice skating rink and religious services on Dec. 25. ProGay group chairman Frank van Dalen says the event is intended to increase the range of options for homosexual men and women during the Christmas holiday week.
Kent comments:
It is rather sad that we have to start out with this one. But facts are facts. And here's a fact: 'homosexual men and women' already have three options - repent, repent, or repent. I know the one Christmas song says 'don we now our gay apparel' - but remember, that was long before homosexual advocates had perverted the language.