Jewish Trucker Sues Frito-Lay; Felt Uncomfortable Delivering Christmas Trees

I love that: Hanukkah bush. LOL


I actually have numerous friends who are Jewish and all but one have a Christmas tree each year. In fact the most beautiful tree I've ever seen in my life was in a friend's home when I was a kid. Every decoration on it was a star. They were crystal and tiny paper oragami stars. This tree absolutely radiated light. I asked his mom one day why they had a Christmas tree and she said she had a tree to honor the Christians who smuggled her and her sister from Germany into Holland and then the Christians who kept them hidden for almost two years in Holland before sending them to America. It was also for the Christian soldiers who liberated her mother from a concentration camp. The paper stars she'd made while in hiding, made one for every day she stayed alive. She gave me one of those stars and I still have it today and put it every year on my tree. I wonder what Mrs. Golden would say about this lawsuit.

 

That is such a beautiful story, you just gave me chills.

 

Being Christmas and its traditions have nothing to do with the core theme of the bible
I'm thinking Jesus would be unhappy with whats happened to Christianity as it changes with the times
It really surprises me that even though its proven to have pagan origins it still a church sponsored holiday

 

Oh if anyone thinks I was slamming traditions I'm sorry. I love every tradition and moment of the Christmas season. In fact I even enjoy standing in those horridly long lines at the store. I love the season because it's when we choose to celebrate the birth of my Savior and Lord. A time in the year where families (whether they're believers or not) come together for love, joy and all of the dysfunction every family has. I love that for once people give to others and for some that's the only time they look beyond themselves.

Here's how I look at the traditions: It's a birthday party. Doesn't matter that it's on the wrong day, we often move birthday parties around. And all of the decorations, lights etc are the birthday decorations. I don't think Jesus minds the date, the trees, the lights at all. He often attended festivities and loved to be with friends and family. I think He'd only regret those filled with selfish greed and He'd ask that we remember the elderly, the sick, the poor.

Perhaps I'm to simplistic but I've never known Christ to take away from His people, only to give. Anyway just my thoughts.

 

A few years back, working on the ER floor of a big hospital, (I'm a nurse BTW!) a lady came in, a few days before Christmas, just totally stressed out, and heading for a breakdown. Demanding to see a psychiatrist.
But the hospital chaplain happened to walk thru, and stopped to talk. He said something to her about Christmas, and how priviledged we are in this country to be able to celebrate Christ's birth.

She just freaked. "I've got presents to buy, the turkey to order, no time to put up decorations, and I have to cook a meal for 10 on Christmas day."

AND YOU WANT TO BRING RELIGION INTO IT??!!??!!

 

This makes my point about Christmas, it is meant to be an inclusive holiday.
That means everyone in the family that is able to share in the enjoyment must also share in the preparations. On my wife's side of the family, we have Christmas morning over at the in-laws and my mother-in-law makes breakfast and we all bring a dish along with other goodies. We give thanks for the year, eat and clean-up. When it comes the gifts, one gift at a time, so that it's not a "free-for-all".

Christmas is meant to be savored and not something we just go through the "motions"

 

Which is exactly why we take the kids and dogs and find a remote cabin somewhere for a week or two.

 

That's what we do also, we take turns opening gifts, otherwise no one gets to see the joy of the rest of the family. We've been traveling to AZ for the last several years to be with my daughter's family and she and our son-in-love are the best at preparing a loving holiday. With the demands of the church it had gotten to where I was working so hard that I lost the joy of the celebration. So after all the things at the church we serve at are finished we drive to AZ. This started because they didn't like the fact that I no longer enjoyed Christmand and son-in-love decided to "Give Mom back the joy". No wonder I say I have the greatest son-in-love in the world. We celebrate his family traditions on Christmas eve with a big Danish dinner that he prepares and my daughter and I stand by like little helpers who chop and wash things for him. We sing this weird Danish Christmas song and dance in a circle around the tree, thus he doesn't miss his family traditions even though his parents and grandparents are gone. I have to tell you it's the funniest thing to do. We laugh hysterically. Then we attend a candle light service at their church and I don't have to do a single thing except worship. Then we go home to cookies and cocoa after we've driven around looking at christmas lights just like when my kids were little. In the morning Santa has come and we open presents which includes treasure hunts and riddle clues. We have a wonderful Christmas breakfast and spend the day playing games, watch a movie etc. We have party foods during the day and a nice dinner but we're all so tired from church Christmas turkey dinners that we don't want one! Most years we have chili for Christmas.

Traditions are what a family makes together. Our family loves our weird traditions and cherish them. We all eat chinese food on Easter Sunday because we once lived in a small town and that was the only place open on Easter. The owners would even decorate a table for us with a paper mache tomb and Jesus. And they hung lil bunnies and chicks from the ceiling. I just love traditions!

 

Yes i am with LM here i am reading alot on the hiden back then and all that went on . thanks for sharing that

 

This is just disgusting, from now on I am not delivering any books I pick up at a publisher to a store because some of them may have copies of the Torah or Koran in it and since I am Christian I will be offended and have to sue someone because I was expected to do my job, or I refuse to deliver any Mercedes to a dealership cause it could be purchased for a disrespectful, spoiled Jewish princess who may not be able to handle the car putting others at risk so I cant deliver it because as a concerned citizen it would be a safety issue,