Well, it’s Christmas again. And there seems to be a stirring in the air. I don’t know whether you have noticed it, but I certainly have. Many people are less afraid than they used to be to say “Merry Christmas.” But some people are still really challenged, according to Kristen Fyfe.

For example, did you know that:

Ft. Collins, Colorado – The city created a Holiday Display Task Force, which recommended banning red and green lights and using only white ones and only secular symbols. A local ACLU representative was on the task force. Fox’s Bill O’Reilly reported on November 27 that the task force’s recommendations were “rebuffed.” The Council voted 6-1 to keep their Christmas decorations.

Well, I should hope so. It gets worse, though, before it gets better.

Companies that operate government-assisted housing for senior citizens – In Plant City, Florida and Troy, Pennsylvania, residents were told they cannot decorate common areas in their buildings with religious symbols at Christmas.

Can you imagine being the guy who tells seniors who have had to part with most of their treasured possessions in order to live in assisted housing that they cannot put up favourite family decorations at Christmas? Or Hanukah? Or Diwali?

What kind of people do the technocrats who try to run our lives think we are? Happily, we are not all as bad as they must think …

After being contacted by Liberty Counsel these companies reversed their decisions.

Well, I should hope so.

The part that blows me away is that it’s not even ideological. The world’s best-known atheist, Richard Dawkins, has said for example that Merry Christmas is okay with him. And if it is okay with him, why isn’t it okay with some cringing bureaucrat lodged in a dumpy basement office in a government building?

What is the world coming to?

Here’s my approach to the question: There are REAL problems with religious freedom in the world. Read Paul Marshall’s reports for the Hudson Institute about religious freedom problems.

If you are concerned that people may be forced to participate in religious activities they don’t believe in, PLEASE don’t get your shirt in a knot about red or green Christmas kitsch in Western democracies. No one who is not terminally neurotic cares about that. Instead, learn about the real persecution worldwide! That is the kind of thing you need to be concerned about.

And merry chrysanthemum to you too … whether you wake up and smell the coffee or not!

Also: Guillermo Gonzalez: Is Earth an accident or a staging platform for exploration of the universe?
You’d think astronomers would be happy to sponsor the latter idea but then you must have been out of town when Guillermo Gonzalez’s story broke.
Read Denyse O’Leary’s interview with Gonzalez here. Also, Gonzalez on intelligent design - both falsifiable and already falsified? Howzzat?
AND (this link works now!) The “Copernican” myth, and other science myths - the undead still walk!
The myth that Copernicus’s model of the universe “dethroned” humans is a vampire that refuses to die. In Physics Today, Mano Singham tries yet again! to drive a nail through the monster’s heart. Singham writes (December 2007, page 48) about the promoters of the myth … This bilge grows up like weeds in the interlocking bricks. Are YOUR kids learning the bilge in school - at your tax expense?
And today at The Mindful Hack
Can people simply decide to die?

It used to be all my mom’s fault, but now it’s all my brain’s fault?

Change your mind, change your brain seminar at Colorado Free University in Denver

Jewish community life takes root again in Germany

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