Take one minute to think about this

[Skybird]

the little girl in this fairy-tale http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Match_Girl
was forbidden to lighten even a single match she was told to sell on the street in deep cold winter. Since she nevertheless did in despair, her death serves her well - I must conclude from some of the poor comments above.

The next day, pedestrians finding her were very sorry before turning away and moving on. - the proud uprightness of citizens considering themselves to be pillars of community. just that they did not nee matches the day before - sorry girl, bad luck, nothing personal.

A law that does not allow to see beyond the mere letters of it, is no law, but the worst and most inhumane tyranny ever summoned upon mankind. I think some of you guys - thankfully not all - missed the basic point the original report was about. and if you can't figure it out yourself, it will be your loss - but explaining to you would be a waste of time. Answers are worthless if people do not see the questions before. Moralists have been the most hard-heartened and inhumane people throughout history, because they consider themselves to be without guilt indeed, and thus think they earned the right to throw the first stone. Such people can become the most inhumane and brutal, all in the name of the letter of the law, and calling that justice. But the head needs the heart, and where the heart is missing, law replaces justice, and penalty is spoken not in the name of justice - but for your own sensational satisfaction.

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and August,

Originally Posted by August

My first thought is if the athiests had their way and gotten all nativity scenes banned that old guy would likely have frozen to death....

I still wait to meet the first Buddhist demanding the end of christmas celebrations. I also still wait to meet the first non-Buddhist atheist demanding that our children must be protected from the terrible danger of christmas time. the stress, the hype, the business-making - what was it with Jesus kicking the traders and money-changers out of the temple? It certainly would be nice if that hysteric commerce party gets reduced to reasonable levels again. I am working in a warehouse - I have seen the madness from close range for weeks now, again. It has nothing to do with the original idea of christmas for those seeing a religious meaning in it, and it also has nothing to do with the meaning of families moving together and visiting friends and the kids having a time of promises and wonders. It is buy-buy-buy, and that's it. It's digging for gold only, profit hunting. And from year to year it becomes more anti-religious, more profane, more kitschig, more hectic, more hysteric. So tell me, in how far is the christmas time of the world you defend ideologically, so superior to atheism? why don't you lament against the excessive consumming and the commerce and business perverting the meaning of christmas, instead of sidekicking against people you do not understand, do not wish to understand, and that do raise no hand to end christmas at all - becasue by the inner nature of atheism, they do not care for the religious meaning of religious festivities?

And still you said: "the" atheists...? "their" will...? You are not trying to contribute to a Feindbild standing for an enemy you do not know much about, don't you, and whom you only attack because he does not share your precious belief dogmas and points you to your own inner contradictions and deficits...

Or is it maybe just me that makes you snapping, like a dog snaps for a bone almost by unconditioned reflex... No-no, can't be...