Re: Swastika Xmas Bulbs Selling Fast!

>"Howard Beale" <weirdlinks@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>news:I94if.19078$BZ5.8259@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>A woman in Vallejo, California found Christmas bulbs with swastikas on
them 
>at a local Pier 1 Im****ts store.  When she and Jews complained, the store

>declined to remove the offensive item from their shelves. SEE PHOTOS
>
> LINK: http://tinyurl.com/cwhog
> FULL LINK: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=3661759

While it's understandable that the swastika conjures up all sorts of 
negative feelings, it certainly wasn't always that way.

http://skepdic.com/swastika.html

It's rightful place is as a good luck charm.  Unfortunately, because the 
Nazi regime appropriated the symbol for their own use, it's unlikely that 
this symbol can be cleansed and purified anytime soon.

There are people who are presently trying to put the correct meaning back 
into this symbol and are refusing to erase it.  However, given that so
much 
pain and hurt is associated with it because of the Holocaust, I do not
think 
it is respectful of the Jewish people to flaunt this symbol around at this

time.  It may be possible to do so several hundred years from now.  But
not 
now.

However, I'm not sure stylized versions of it should give cause for alarm.

Different cultures had different stylized versions of it.  And if one were

to look hard enough at any pattern, one could see swastikas!   Should we
be 
banning any and all patterns in which swastikas could be seen, however 
remote and stretched that imagination might be?

Those Christmas tree bulbs are just decorative items.  Those swirly things

certainly don't look offensive to me!   Personally I find the Christian 
cross offensive!  The cross was used as an item to inflict the death 
penalty.  The cross is like that electric chair or lethal syringe!   Tens
of 
thousands of people had been killed on the cross. Yet, you won't find me 
going on the bandwagon to have that cross banned!  It's just something I 
choose not to display in my home or wear around my neck, or have dangling 
from my ear-lobes!   I don't wear items of death as a fa****on *****sory or

expression of faith.

Heidi