That's why I never want to go to my girlfriends house for Christmas, but I end up sitting back with her cousin and laughing at how crazy all the women, of all ages, are when they get together. It's no wonder there are so few men in the family.

The Philadelphia mob?

[Mig]AMEN! [/Mig]

A good point, perhaps, but yes. Christianity refers to one god. Jews are as anti-Christian as Atheists.

And Jews are polytheistic?? Since you're so open to learning, perhaps you should take a theology course.

Wait... Jews don't believe in Christ being the son of God so that makes them anti-Christian, right? I think what Capo said was correct.

What in the world are you talking about?

No, he originally said that Jews going to the movies on Christmas makes them anti-Christian, which made little or no sense. If I go to the movies on Passover, am I an anti-Semite??

As for the prefix "anti-", it depends on your meaning. It's connotation is quite negative (at least to me) and means that you OPPOSE something, or you are prejudiced against something. I don't think that Jewish people are generally OPPOSED to Christians because they don't share beliefs or go to the movies on Christian holidays.

Jews and Christians. Or maybe constitution. Or may be gas prices, who knows.

All of the world's problems are linguistic, it seems.

And SB is right; "anti-" brings negative connotations.

It's not necessarily meant to mean "actively against", here; but different beliefs in the world cannot, by definition, if they want to take themselves seriously, allow for any other theistic possibility. As I said earlier in the thread, theists are self-defeating.

Fall back on the "different strokes for different folks" banality, but that's about as self-dishonest as the belief in the first place.

But maybe that's a linguistic problem in itself; the term "belief" is quite a wooly concept.

At any rate, Merry Christmas; and here's to better gas prices next year.

Ah, another post from Capo about how totally superior and cool it is to be without faith, and, apparently, to be him.

Thank you for dropping by to mock the other members of the board for the banality of their posts and, seemingly, their existence.

Without you to shine a light into the darkness of our lives on occasion, think how very sad and empty our lives would be.

Wishing everyone here a lovely holiday season, although, according to Capo, if you don't celebrate Christmas, I, in my self-defeating Christian way, hate you.

Hate's a strong word.

and Love is just a four letter word.....like Hate, but I prefer Love as I'm sure SB does, and I Love her. Peace on Earth, Good Will toward men (and women). And Jesus gave us the eleventh commandment, love one another. What so ever you do for the least of your brothers, that you do unto Me.