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Originally Posted by goodtimesintv
Besides the drug-addict, sick role modeling being promoted, and besides the role modeling of enabler behavior being fed to young people, this whole Prince worship with purple lighting of public buildings is another giant example of the double standard promoted when it is Hollywood-liberal media and marketing in the driver's seat of public, governmental agencies.
People now scream and cry that they are victims, "offended" by public building displays and even the mention of "Christmas". Christian groups are branded "offensive" for placing Christmas displays on/at public buildings and schools and grounds.
So I find it offensive when public buildings and structures, such as the Atlanta City Hall, Birmingham City Hall, Los Angeles City Hall, San Francisco City Hall, the I-35 Bridge in MN, and many other such public structures across the nation celebrate and worship Prince with purple lighting, at significant taxpayer expense!
What the h*ll is wrong with people who cannot see the double standard that is just fine when it is a drug-addict Jehovah's Witness (anti-Christmas) being celebrated/worshiped on public buildings, but the word Christmas in lights or a nativity scene lit at a public building sends the opposition into a frenzy to punish Christians in the courts?????
Think!!
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I wonder why this bothers some more than others. I care about your beliefs because they are much like mine, but am not angered by people being entranced with sports figures or performing artists. I think it is a part of our human make up to find our gods and goddesses so to speak.. As a kid I was nuts about June Allyson and as I grow older, my hero's are more figures of science, but I know I am not quite......ummm right.
We all have our own set of values, obtained early and perhaps changed by life experience and not much can shake what we think is right and wrong. I think enjoying performers and public figures is fairly harmless and I think we all do it to some degree. I like the references to Christianity that are here and about in our landscape because of our traditions, but that offends many.
I feel everyday that I walk in a mine field of trying NOT to offend peoples belief's. I just wish that so many things I find innocent didn't have double or triple meanings and we didn't have to watch what we say.