Congress passes meaningless resolution, and dog bites man. Film at 11.

If the resolution doesn't pass will the evil secular anti-Jesus liberals steal Christmas or change it to worship Satan?

Just thinking about the baby Jesus’ birthday party being taken away makes me sad.

Why has the government waited so long to pass these important pieces of legislation? Those wily secular progressives could have stolen all of our religious holidays and important religious characters (see: Easter Bunny) since day one.

Be vigilant - watch for the sneak attack. Even if this resolution passes you can be certain the war will continue. We might have to use a little deadly force. The evil secularists have plans for a Noel-bomb. They must be stopped.

I see nothing wrong protesting a violation of the Constitution, even in a pandering resolution. Though most is just s sop to the Christian fundamentalists, this part violates the first amendment: "(2) expresses continued support for Christians in the United States and worldwide;"
The government isn't supposed to support any one religion. Violations of the establishment clause don't get much clearer.

Thanks GOD that some of us still try and make sure that this is a GOD fearing Country..!!! If you Heathens had your way, everyone would be a homo, and god would be gone from our lives... By the way, you people will Lose in the end, and GOD will send you to HEll on Judgement day..:-)

BIll

A little rearrangement of the letters in Satan gives you Santa.

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on "I am not too sure."

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
U. S. Editor and Critic.

I trust in the next few weeks we can see similar resolutions supporting Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Shintoists, Zoroastrians, Atheists, intellectually reasoned agnostics, de facto agnostics, Star Wars devotees, etc.? Right?

It seems the more liberal thing to do here would be to try and understand the root causes why someone would feel this is a necessary act (and why such an act generally garners considerable support).

Instead of ridiculing the "Christian victimization complex," perhaps you could consider why Christians feel in many ways beleaguered.

If it helps, may I suggest you work by analogy: take any other categorization of people, imagine repeated affronts to what they hold dear, and then think about how you would compassionately side with them. Then substitute "Christians" back into equation.

Is the bill in question what our government should be working on? Of course not. But your framing of the issue (with its facetious but dismissive and hence antagonistic tone) only contributes, I think, to the root causes of the larger cultural problem.

This dumb bill Congress trying pass

I've got too much work to do, and too many other constitutional violations to worry about than waste my time on this nonsense. Have fun with it.

What useless [deleted].

R James - thank you for bringing some sensibility to this forum. People get bent out of shape for nothing and that just upsets people. Real Christians are true liberals, as was Jesus. Don't be a dismissive jerk. This is a silly piece of legislation, but don't worry about it. It'll go away.

I for one need to write my Rep to suggest similar legislation but this time in recognizing the power and rightful place of Cthulhu and the other Elder Gods in regards to this plane of existence.

Seriously, Capt and Eric hit the nail on the head.

Christ on a cracker. Christians piss and moan more than any other group. I've had it with these people.

"Whereas Christians and Christianity have contributed greatly to the development of western civilization"

Who can forget the great contributions of the Inquisition?

The funniest part of all this is "Whereas Christians [...], commit themselves to living their lives in accordance with the teachings of the Holy Bible"

Yeah, well I'll grant that a *few* do. But in my experience anyway, it's *damn* few.

Oh, and shouldn't item 6 really be #7. Shouldn't 6 be "rejects bigotry and persecution by Christians, both in the United States and worldwide;"

Oh wait. No, I guess that would invalidate the entire bill.

"Who can forget the great contributions of the Inquisition?"

A wonderfully and purposefully myopic view of Christianity's contribution to history!