Wednesday, April 21, 2010

RELIGION IN 3-PART HARMONY

STEALTH BOMBING CHRISTMAS

Well, now it's official. In its April 21 edition, the Chicago Sun Times finally drove the silver stake into the heart of Christmas. Right there on page 3 for all the world to see, it lists how Americans spend over $500 billion each year on holiday gifts. But now here's where the silver stake enters the picture. While it identifies St. Patrick's Day, Easter and St. Valentine's Day by name, the 2000-year name of Christmas is nowhere to be found.

To be sure -- this is political correctness in action. Christmas is neatly grouped in with Hanukah and Kwanzan under the new name Winter Holiday. But here's the question. If my wife and I adopt two children, what do we now call our only birth-child? A triplet...?

No, I think we'd still call her by her own name!

TALKING ABOUT RELIGION

Millions of us have become aware of -- often intimidated by -- the relentless battery of public cameras monitoring our actions. Cameras which are especially important in modern police work.

There are those who have raised alarms about a Big Brother state. Such paranoia is to be expected in a democracy where individual rights are deemed sacred. However, then there's a fellow in Darien, Connecticut who has displaced paranoia with chutzpah.

Last month he not only robbed the local bank, he did it wearing a bright blue yarmulke for the cameras to snap. Later when captured, he was heard to shrug: "So, I'm religious...!"

ANOTHER BIBLICAL SHOCK?

While the religious world is buffeted by reports about long lost gospels such as Peter, Thomas and Magdalene, there's a new story bubbling to the surface. When a tourist in the Vatican was studying statues of the Virgin Mary, he looked puzzled. A rabbi nearby asked, "May I help you?"

The tourist replied, "All these statues and paintings of Mary make her look so serious and so sad. Why is that?"

The old rabbi winked, "Maybe she was expecting a girl....!" So long as the tourist wasn't Dan Brown, no one need worry about another sequel to "The DaVinci Code."




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