Which one is it Rabbi Lapin? Did he intend it or not? Regardless, such is the inevitable outcome of those who preach “pluralism”, “multiculturalism,” or “diversity”. Oh, and Grady, don’t for a second believe that Rabbi B. from Seattle would have done differently. His group is the same one that is responsible for a similar lawsuit in Ohio to display the Menorah in a public square. Full coverage here: http://pewforum.org/docs/index.php?DocID=175
Wake up America!

I don’t know if Christianity is necessary for Western Civilization, but I do believe that large segments of all human populations will forever be enthralled with worshipping unseen ‘powers’ because they provide comfort by explaining things that science cannot (life after death, beginning of the universe, purpose). Of all the religions I’m familiar with (very few), it’s Christianity that falls closest in line to our secular laws (laws that I believe are self-evident in their overall beneficial nature), so I would prefer Christianity over all others.

Not all atheists are as dismal as you portray them. In fact, it is the religiously, fanatically secular who childisly fail to perceive that whether it is secularism or some form of religion, the cognitive-behavioral mechanisms that regulate our (human) thinking are the same, and they cannot in any conceivable way be altered.

This atheist here, for one, is not your enemy. I sincerely hope you weren’t — or didn’t consider yourself — his.

I’ve known several in my life, and I find them to be some of the most combative, arrogant people I have ever met in the war on ideas. As an agnostic, I’m capable of seeing the folly in that both sides sometimes have, but I also see the inherent greatness of a religion that is based on all the good things in life.

The Christian will offer me ideals based on a world where people care for each other, do not cheat on their wives, and try – though he might fail – to be good people. Some of them don’t make it, but this is not a problem with the Christian idealogy, as much as an errant human mathematician is not an inherent problem with mathematics.

The counter offer from atheists – at least, all of the ones that I’ve talked to – is a world filled with libertine grossness, materialism, and total rejection of any form of spirituality. They seem to think that the spirit is something intangible, and therefore idealogically broke. Any one who has seen the awful pictures of holocaust victims, some of them still fairly healthy, understands what it means to be broken in this most worst of ways, ways that the atheist and his philosopher kings would wave with a flip of the hand as ‘imaginary’ and ‘purely mental’.

Also, the zeal in which atheists persue their idiological (I’m sorry, I mean, idealogical) quest in demonizing people who don’t think you should fool around outside marriage makes me think they would make fine religious folk. How ironic.

[Didn’t know there was one on this blog. I think they’re all pretty revolting. See “Gibson’s Gibberish,” “Mel’s ‘Malady,’ Foxman’s Fetish,” and “Enough of the No-Fault Forgiveness Already“]

I guess it’s important to understand that Jews as a whole don’t care much for this, but other than that, I guess I don’t care much. If I want a C tree, I’ll just put one in my house.

As Rabbi Lapin pointed out so well, the
Jews and Christians are being assaulted. Make no mistake, we must stand together, or we shall perish separately.