tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807994396764212014.post3811660503848236645..comments2023-10-14T08:37:11.192-07:00Comments on Round Circle: Blog Against Theocracy, April 2-4, 2010Spadomanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17781369901345409341noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807994396764212014.post-2975643619148484542010-04-19T14:48:55.966-07:002010-04-19T14:48:55.966-07:00Just getting over to read your entry (and I see I ...Just getting over to read your entry (and I see I have a bunch of other posts afterward to catch up with!). Great post and I agree completely.<br /><br />Your granddaughter is very smart and she is right. One thing I was glad about was that many schools now also give off Jewish holidays - but only if there are a lot of Jewish families in town. In the work place, anyone wanting to celebrate their religious holiday if it isn't a Christian holiday, have to use their personal days. But the whole company gets off Christmas. Things are still very inequitable.Mauigirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15529827915262851910noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807994396764212014.post-58213531142109872272010-04-12T20:51:30.078-07:002010-04-12T20:51:30.078-07:00Decorations, indeed, along with all the damn relig...Decorations, indeed, along with all the damn religious music pouring out from the ceilings and walls of every store and elevator in the whole country for months. Horribly intrusive, and if you complain you are viewed as a terrible person. <br /><br />More than once I've been alone in an elevator with the umptigazillionth rendition of Little Drummer Boy and beaten the speaker until it broke. One of these days I'll probably get arrested, but it will have been worth it. Not that I'm advocation anyone else do such a thing....Graham Firchlishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17836327586888512157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807994396764212014.post-73855250209426163492010-04-06T16:21:08.126-07:002010-04-06T16:21:08.126-07:00It's an uneasy arrangement at best when church...It's an uneasy arrangement at best when church and state share government.<br />I agree with you they should be kept separate. And it seems to me that Jesus did too - "give unto Caesar... etc" But perhaps I've understood that wrong.mighttp://letouttoplay.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807994396764212014.post-45145999466368840962010-04-05T12:42:54.449-07:002010-04-05T12:42:54.449-07:00Well said, and smart granddaughter.Well said, and smart granddaughter.Batocchiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02193752396025012825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807994396764212014.post-16531982753326026132010-04-04T09:07:00.177-07:002010-04-04T09:07:00.177-07:00Ah, Spadoman, this is one of the reasons I miss bl...Ah, Spadoman, this is one of the reasons I miss blogging...themes like this and responses such as yours...<br /><br />“Wow, wasn’t very good then, was it?” Your granddaughter is very wise indeed...I only wish more of our children were raised to ask intelligent questions.Bluehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17814588554725482715noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807994396764212014.post-10202223160529112772010-04-04T05:33:55.401-07:002010-04-04T05:33:55.401-07:00As I lovingly chide the Brit--it took England THOU...As I lovingly chide the Brit--it took England THOUSANDS of years to screw up England...it's only taken us a few hundred......so pffffffttt!<br /><br />*laughing*<br /><br />The girl flunked 'Religions' class in college. Twice. In High School she had some difficulties in World History cuz.... Cuz she has a mom who says 'question everything' and she did?<br /><br />She passed the World History class--but not without the mom visiting with the teacher more than once.<br /><br />OMG.....I raised an anarchist....Melhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14408403855260279799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807994396764212014.post-13554258538455708552010-04-04T05:15:23.076-07:002010-04-04T05:15:23.076-07:00Christopher and Fire Byrd... Thank you for stoppin...Christopher and Fire Byrd... Thank you for stopping by at my Round Circle and thank you for your comments.<br /><br />Upon further reflection about the USA, I guess we started this country's church and state dance party when we became an independent nation. They never should have used the bible to swear in George Washington. That would have aleviated the problems right from the get go.<br /><br />Thanks again.<br /><br />Peace.Spadomanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17781369901345409341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807994396764212014.post-68258487154885726712010-04-04T03:24:54.166-07:002010-04-04T03:24:54.166-07:00We may have bishops in the House of Lords, but the...We may have bishops in the House of Lords, but the House of Lords has very little power nowadays. And we are just not a religious society.<br />George Bush was a manipulative man and was manipulated. His words remind me of the scaremongering during the Middle ages, when religion was used to control the people. To maintain power for the few by frightening the rest with hell and damnation if they didn't do as they were told by the few.<br />It strikes me that America is a country running scared of some unknown 'them' that they are whipped up into a frenzy about and then buy into God will save them.<br />The enemy has taken on such huge proportions in the imagination of the frightened that religion is being sold as the only way.<br />Cause we have lived for years with the unrest in Northern Ireland we understand the us and them. And as a nation we just go for apathy and then rage.Fire Byrdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05477692359400671374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3807994396764212014.post-72894387415129823152010-04-03T12:00:55.500-07:002010-04-03T12:00:55.500-07:00Separation of church and state has been total in F...Separation of church and state has been total in France for 105 years, whereas in largely pagan (and heathen) England there has been no such separation, so that the Queen is head of the church and C of E bishops still sit in the House of Lords (= US Senate), which to my mind is all wrong, particularly with the newish elements of e.g. Islam clamouring for an attention which may translate itself into governmental representation. <br /><br />Pax tecum (Latin pax = peace, te = you (singular) cum = with, so 'Peace [be] with you', Spadoman.Christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14227767014123557100noreply@blogger.com