Re: Country Related: Christmas

Padraic Brown scripsit:

> A Hindu friend of mine summed it up pretty well: 'It's stupid.  This is
> the USA, a Christian country.  I am Hindu, but living here, I would
> _expect_ people to say Merry Xmas.  How can I be offended at that?'
Ahem.  The Treaty of Tripoli (ratified 1792, the first between the
U.S. and a Muslim power) says "The United States is in no sense
founded on the Christian religion"; like other treaties, this
forms part of the "supreme law of the land" (U.S. Constitution
Arcticle VI section 2).  I have also found this phrase
attributed to George Washington.

There are a lot of Christians here, but it is not a Christian country.

> Apart from which, there is _no_ USA over *there* to pollute the world with
> some of its screwball ideas.  They've got screwball ideas go leor as it
> is.
Sorry, Charlie.  The League of N.A. is in some ways more multicultural
than the U.S.

(Brithenig reference)

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        You tollerday donsk?  N.  You tolkatiff scowegian?  Nn.
        You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
                Clear all so!  'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)