Happy Birthday Jesus

“"A young man whose father is a carpenter grows up working in his
father's shop. He has no formal education. He owns no property
of any kind. One day he puts down his tools and walks out of
his father's shop. He starts preaching on street corners and in
the nearby countryside. Walking from place to place preaching
all the while even though he is in no way an ordained minister
he never gets farther than an area perhaps 100 miles wide at
the most. He does this for three years. Then he is arrested,
tried and convicted. There is no court of appeal so he is
executed at age 33 along with two common thieves. Those in
charge of his execution roll dice to see who gets his clothing --
the only possessions he has. His family cannot afford a burial
place so he is interred in a borrowed tomb. End of story? No,
this uneducated, propertyless young man who preached on street
corners for only three years who left no written word has for 2000
years had a greater effect on the entire world than all the rulers,
kings and emperors, all the conquerors, the generals and admirals,
all the scholars, scientists and philosophers who ever lived --
all put together. How do we explain that? ...Unless he really
was what he said he was." --Ronald Reagan”

“Jesus was a heretic and a liberal.

Happy winter solstice, strat!

:)”

“wonder why you won't admit that you are a liberal....



"How many observe Christ's birth-day! How few, his precepts!
O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments." --Benjamin
Franklin


"...[N]atural liberty is a gift of the beneficent
Creator to the whole human race...." --Alexander Hamilton


"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we
have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of
the people that these liberties are the gift of God?" --Thomas
Jefferson



"May the father of all mercies scatter light,
and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our
several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way
everlastingly happy." --George Washington


"He rules the
world with truth and grace...." --Isaac Watts

"Why is it
that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most
joyous and most venerated festival returns on this [Independence]
day? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday
of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the
Savior?" --John Quincy Adams


"It is good to be children
sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its Mighty
Founder was a child Himself." --Charles Dickens


"If more of
us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would
be a merrier world." --J.R.R. Tolkien


"The place that the
shepherds found was not an academy or an abstract republic; it was
not a place of myths allegorised or dissected or explained away.
It was a place of dreams come true." --G.K. Chesterton



"Holiday and Holy Day, Christmas is more than a yule log, holly
or tree. It is more than natural good cheer and the giving of
gifts. Christmas is even more than the feast of the home and of
children, the feast of love and friendship. It is more than all
of these together. Christmas is Christ, the Christ of justice and
charity, of freedom and peace." --Francis Cardinal Spellman



"May the spirit of Christmas ignite in the hearts of patriotic
Americans a determination to redouble efforts at recapturing
control of our national destiny, so that our children and their
children may know, as we have known, the joy of true freedom
and the infinite glory that shines from the humble manger of
the newborn Christ." --Fr. James Thornton


"The Christmas spirit of Peace, hope, and love is the spirit Americans carry
with them all year round, everywhere we go. ... The tree that
lights up our country must be seen all the way to heaven...its
lights fill the air with a spirit of hope, and joy from the heart
of America." --Ronald Reagan”

“Very inspirational. Thanks.”

“Quit using Jesus in the same fukin context with politics! You'll go to Hell for that ya know.”

“wd, it was a pretty big deal to the people who founded this nation.

i don't really care if he would have been a liberal or not. thats not the point. ...... .... . but i bet he wouldn't have voted for clinton....LMFAO!”

“dude, I don't even know what a liberal is. I just know it's something that politics has to deal with.”

“agreed wd, man we gotta hook up sometime. come on down to the BRT hike mang.”

“Wish I could Bro. I won't be able to make a trip until the Arkansas trip in the middle of January.”

“i wasn't invited to that one....


8(”

“The trip is posted on the Trip section.”

“COOL! thank you Jesus!”

“For many years when our children were little we would have a birthday cake with a few candles on it for Christmas Day and sing Happy Birthday to Jesus after dinner.

Another family tradition is to read the Christmas story before we open presents. If you want to download the Christmas story, I have one that prints well that is in chronological order at:
http://www.csupomona.edu/~rosenkrantz/xmashtm2.htm

Merry Christmas Everyone!”

“^5 phil! Merry Christmas!”

“I'm in on this one! Although in our fast paced, whirlwind lifestyles, America often turns on what made her great. This country allows us to worship and pray to God without fear of death, yet as a country, we try to eliminate God from all we do.

As for me, without Christ, it all means nothing.

Merry CHRISTmas!”

“Christ=Freedom, I dig your name.”

“So, dweebtarts, when dija start capitalizin' yer name??? No one else seems to have noticed, but I don't think it's really you. What is yer daddy's maiden name. Who played the lead man in 'The Maltese Bippy'?”

“I though it might be a troll at first... but if it is, it's a carbon copy.”

“It's probably the result of some commie pinko left-wing conspiracy...







:D”

“I accidently said 'Merry Christmas' to a person who barked back that they were Jewish,,,, I said sorry to hear that.”

“That's enlightening.”

“That never used to be a problem, Briar. When I was in school, I'd wish my Jewish classmates Merry Christmas and they'd wish me Happy Hanukah. We even had school pageants for both faiths.”

“Hey Phaedrus, I'm not sure he was a liberal. Maybe a compassionate conservative. ;-)”

“"Cultures, civilizations, leaders and threats change, but the
message of Christmas doesn't. ...It's about a miracle baby and
eternal things." --Cal Thomas


"By coming to earth as a child,
God established once and for all that there is truth and that it is
knowable -- knowable in the person of Jesus. In this relativistic
age, when people claim there is no such thing as truth, this is
surely something for which we can give thanks." --Charles Colson


"The concerted effort to minimize Christmas has resulted
in it being our national Happy Holiday holiday. The Christmas
season is now the holiday season. Christmas parties are now
holiday parties. Christmas is a time for giving and receiving
presents and in many homes, nothing more. Who is this fellow,
Jesus Christ, anyway?" --Lyn Nofziger


"Christmas, coming so
late in the year, reminds us that changes even late in life can
make a huge difference." --Marvin Olasky


"Both Christianity
and Judaism came into a blood-drenched pagan world and civilized
it with their concept of an omnipotent God who demands righteous
conduct.... The more Christian, in the true sense of the word,
America becomes, the more morally sensitive it will be and the
better for all of us -- Christians and non-Christians, atheists
and agnostics alike." --Don Feder


"Christmas has always been
a part of our national tradition. It became a national holiday
for no reason other than its profound religious meaning." --John
F. McManus


"Christ's gospel is an alternative and rebuke to
all statist tyranny. This Christmas, and every Christmas, we
celebrate the 2000-year-old arrival of the only permanent King
of the Earth...." --P. Andrew Sandlin



"For all year round
we are torn between the Spirit of Christmas -- generosity, love,
friendship, compassion -- and the Spirit of Scrooge -- selfishness,
egoism, narrowness and cold calculation. There is a never-ending
competition between them for dominance over the souls of even the
best of us. And Scrooge wins more often than he should." --John
O'Sullivan


"In a few more days we will celebrate Xmas, the
day we commemorate the birth of you-know-who. ...It seems the
modern consensus of enlightened people that his name should be
used in polite society only when cursing.... [P]oliticians are
often eager to associate themselves personally with you-know-who,
even -- and especially -- when they rather flagrantly ignore his
injunctions.... He was out of step then, and He is out of step now.
He is eternally out of step, and eternally more powerful than
those who keep in step. You know who I mean." --Joseph Sobran”

“Merry Christmas, mi amigos.

Not all liberals are atheists.”

“Merry Christmas chiliedawg! !”

“Merry Christmas all. I'm having chili tonight!”

“does he know it yet?”

“There's a difference between chili and chili36. Ones food, ones a lawyer. 8-P

go back you your scrooge thread. ;-)”

“lol!”

“Nice retort, pathman.”

“ah...

You know, walkindude, anybody is welcome in this thread. I'm not the one to send you away. 8D”

“Why thank you!”

“oh my..i didn't know it was the guy that ran the taco stands birthday...”

“"For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten
Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life." (John 3:16)

"The angel of the Lord appeared
to them and the glory of God shone 'round them." (Luke 2:9)



"...The star which they had seen in the East went before them,
till it came and stood over where the young Child was. When they
[the Wise Men] saw the star, they rejoiced with exceedingly
great joy. And when they had come into the house, they saw the
young Child with Mary His mother, and fell down and worshiped
Him. And when they had opened their treasures, they presented
gifts to Him: gold, frankincense, and myrrh." (Matthew 2:9-11)


"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh
down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness,
neither shadow of turning." (James 1:17)


"Peace I leave
with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I
give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid." (John 14:27)



"Grace to you and peace from God the
Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for our sins,
that He might deliver us from this present evil age, according
to the will of our God and Father, to whom be glory forever and
ever. Amen." (Galatians 1:3-5)”

“Happy Birthday JESUS and Thank You!”

“Aftenposten
A 31-year-old drunk from Bergen who believed he was Jesus attacked a policeman who entered his train compartment. The defendant explained that he mistook the police officer for Judas.

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article241063.ece”

“"The one who shall betray me shall come in and offer me a subway token."”

“They don't make Messiah's like they used to.”

“But the drunks are still about the same.”

“astounding. anyone ever read the book
"the reluctant messiah"?
sounds like this one was ready not reluctant”