Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays 3390

No, it's not. There's no historical evidence of Jesus, other than what's mentioned in the Bible.

Such as?

Lots of contemporary documentation, as I recall.

Did you learn your history from a comic book?

Okay, let me put it another way. Why should I even care? Okay, you win -- he existed. There is all sorts of proof -- photographs of him in his high school year book, laundry receipts, credit card applications.

So what?

1. Says you. Sorry, but you are about the last person I would look to for halachal rulings.

2. Why should I even care? Okay, you win -- he was Jewish. You've got a letter from his rabbi, you've seen his bar mitzvah photographs, you were invited to the seder.

So what?

You're quoting wikipedia? You've got to be kidding.

Yes.

All of our presidents have been Christians of one form or another, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. It's not belief in Jesus Christ that I'm criticizing, but being an adherent to a minority experssion of Christianity that believes that their understanding of God trumps the Consbreastution, and that this should be a Christian nation (albeit only their version of Christianity).

I'm not a liberal.

Notwithstanding, have you read any history? Or, perhaps, even this thread?

My short list of Bush-Christian Fundamentalist actions which I find threatening:

1. Banning funding of new-line stem cell research. 2. Funding of the "Support Marriage" initiative to the tune of $1 billion. 3. Establishment of the Department of Faith-Based Initiatives, with federal tax dollars going to religious organizations with little or no oversight. 4. Nominating an unqualified lawyer to be a Supreme Court justice solely on the basis of "religousness" that would ensure over-turning Roe v. Wade. 5. Eliminating U.S. funding of international health initiatives that included end. 6. Supporting a consbreastutional amendment to ban gay marriage. 7. Supporting the teaching of creationism in public schools. 8. Funding prostelytization by evangelical Christian groups, as long as their religious message includes "abstinence education."

And my personal favorite -- when Bush was governor of Texas:

9. Proclaiming "Jesus Christ Day" in Texas.

Ah, the sound of the Consbreastution washing down the drain.

Who cares? Whatever Christmas is, it isn't a Jewish holiday (or a Budhist one or Shinto one or Hindu one, etc.)

You get over yourself. Who are you to tell me what I should believe, and what holidays I should observe? How incredibly arrogant. And how incredibly antisemitic.