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Christians Stage Stunning ‘Nativity Flash Mob’ Inside CA Mall in Response to Atheist-Led ‘War on Christmas’

Dec. 19, 2012 12:45pm Billy Hallowell

Throughout 2012, Santa Monica, Calif., has been home to intense debate over the separation of church and state. Following atheist furor over a traditional nativity scene, the city decided to ban religious speech in Palisades Park. We’ve already reported about the live nativity loophole Christians used to ensure that symbols pertaining to Jesus’ birth appeared in the park — but some believers also resorted to another tactic: Staging a “Nativity Flash Mob” inside of a local shopping center.

In an effort to prove that celebrating the Christmas season in its true form is a societal right, Christians from Metro Calvary Chapel in Santa Monica and others from around the Orange County area put on an unexpected holiday show at the Santa Monica Place Mall on Dec. 16th.

Santa Monica Christians Stage Nativity Flash Mob Against War on Christmas

Photo Credit: YouTube

What started out as one woman caroling beautifully in the middle of the mall quickly evolved into a much larger spectacle (all captured on video, of course). Within seconds, others joined her in singing traditional Christmas hymns, while another woman placed an empty manger near the group.

Then, just as “O Come, All Ye Faithful” began being belted out, Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus — in full costume — appeared near the manger. Before long, other characters associated with the nativity emerged, as a crowd began circling the spectacle with cameras.

A video that captures the show, which extended for more than six minutes, culminates with a round of applause from shoppers and passer-byes who stopped to see it.

Watch the “Nativity Flash Mob,” below:

A press release about the endeavor claims that, rather than get angry about atheist attacks on Santa Monica’s 60-year nativity tradition, those involved in the flash mob decided “to do what matters most.” And what is that, you ask? Telling the Christmas story to as many people as possible.

“What matters is that the Christmas story needs to be told – it’s part of the Great Commission for Christians,” the press release reads. “And this time of year, Christians should be able to celebrate freely, carry on the message, and not be hiding for fear of offending someone.”

Judging from the applause inside Santa Monica Place Mall, it didn’t sound as though anyone was offended. For more about the ongoing nativity drama in Santa Monica, read TheBlaze’s intensive coverage.

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Brad Brzezinski
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:54pm
A great performance.

As the USA has Christmas and Easter as public holidays it presents itself as a primarily Christian country, albeit it one that welcomes people of other religions. Non-Christians came to the USA knowing all this. There is simply nothing wrong with the public celebration of these holidays.

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- macpappy
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 6:26pm
  I totally agree, as long as it isn’t on Government property.
  
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- Pnis
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 7:11pm
  Easter isn’t a public holiday. Neither is Good Friday. Besides it falls on Sunday when government offices are closed.
  
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- Greenwood
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:15pm
  @P nis……..hol·i·day [hol-i-dey] “when government offices are closed.”
  noun
  1.
  a day fixed by law or custom on which ordinary business is suspended in commemoration of some event or in honor of some person.
  2.
  any day of exemption from work ( distinguished from working day ).
  3.
  a time or period of exemption from any requirement, duty, assessment, etc.: New businesses may be granted a one-year tax holiday.
  4.
  a religious feast day; holy day, especially any of several usually commemorative holy days observed in Judaism.
  5.
  Sometimes, holidays. Chiefly British . a period of cessation from work or one of recreation; vacation.
  
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- fedupv2
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:25pm
  @macpappy You are part of the problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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- stm62
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:26pm
  Why should atheists belief system be tolerated on government property and peoples of faiths beliefs, not?
  
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- ProudInfidel
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:33pm
  There is NOTHING unconstitutional about private citizens expressing religious views on public property. They are NOT Congress & they are NOT making a law. Stopping them from doing it WOULD be a direct violation of the Constitution. Maybe MacPappy should read the Constitution a little slower.
  
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- ex_nihilo
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:36pm
  MAC PAPPY, what difference does being on government property make? As long as Congress isn’t establishing a state religion through law or preventing people from exercising their religious freedom, I think it is great. A Christian has just as much right to exercise this form of free speech on government property as anyone else has to stand on that same property and speak.
  
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- Pnis
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:44pm
  Greenwood- Thanks for the smart @ss answer. Easter is not a federal or government recognized holiday. It just happens to fall on a day government offices are closed. My birthday is on a Sunday, but nobody’s calling it a public holiday.
- turkey13
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 10:35pm
  I want to know where The ACLU was. They should have been on top of this.. Why wasn’t Eric Holder doing his josb? Ericc Holder should go there and use this video to find & arrest thes people. These people can’t go around offending other folks.d
  
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- Greenwood
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 9:14am
  @P nis……..”My birthday is on a Sunday, but nobody’s calling it a public holiday.”
  
  Sunday is a public holiday (holyday)
  
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- lemonfemale
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:00pm
  @Macpappy.
  The wall of separation does not say the state must be hostile to religion. The government is barred from preferring a religion or seeming to. But allowing private groups to use government property is OK as long as anyone can use it. If that means two scientists and Darwin in the cradle, so be it.
  
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- bonesiii
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:05pm
  Here’s the actual wording: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” — sorry, Macpuppy and other libs, but there’s no “except” there.
  
  Government property is in fact the first place where our freedoms are most protected constitutionally, and no lawyery tricks or even corrupt judges can actually change that. The only legal option would be a Constitutional amendment rescinding our rights.
  
  Of course, atheists have no basis for morals, so they don’t mind cheating. Thankfully, Christians are not just rolling over and taking it. ^_^
  
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- SELECT
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 4:25pm
  what has it happening on government property got to do with anything?
  
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- Quester55
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 7:42pm
  I find it simply strange that some don’t mind Christian Celebrations in public, Just as long as it’s not on government land. Yet EVERY MILITARY Base, Recruit Training Center, Have One or more Churches/Chapels on the Government Land & There is NEVER any outcry from those COWARDS Known as ATHEIST!!
  Read it in Black & White from the BIBLE: ” Resist the Devil & he’ll Flee From You “. Perhaps if You Christians put a little practice in your faith, You’ll have fewer attacks from the devils servants!
  
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AZgirl9000
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:52pm
I wonder if these kinds of religious-themed public performances will seem as admirable if the Muslims begin echoing their Call to Prayer throughout the mall five times a day.

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- tothepoint
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:47pm
  Having heard the gutteral, offensive Muslim call to prayer, at differing times of the day, in other countries, I’d say there’s no comparison to the lovely music here. Wait until you’re awakened in the middle of the night by the bellowing Muslim prayer calls. You’ll know what the difference is.
  And, before any of you deny it’s true…I’ve personally heard it. It’s true.
  
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- YAHSHUARULES
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 6:15pm
  ISLAM is NOT A RELIGION. Islam is a FORM OF GOVERNANCE! Mosques are Trojan horses breeding grounds for terrorism and treason. The left only has a problem with one form of religion BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY – Marx hated God and Capitalism. Our Founders knew that only a moral people could handle the freedoms of our REPUBLIC Representative form of government – The left is at WAR WITH GOD!
  
  Do you know who Fabians (with logo of wolf in sheep’s clothing), Frankfurt School, Antonio Gramsci, Mattechine Society, Alinksi (who dedicated his book “Rules for Radicals to Lucifer and Obama used to teach in Chicago), Committees of Correspondence are? Connect all the dots…
  
  All part of the Agenda to create an America so corrupt it stinks and to drive this culture in a direction designed to destroy it. If you don’t know all this you need to find out!
  This is the most comprehensive, best movie I have seen pulling all this together. Watch it. Share it.
  It should be mandatory viewing for everyone subjected to government education/indoctrination
  https://vimeo.com/52009124
  if that is not working try this: https://vimeo.com/16647512
  
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- italy2007
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:49am
  It’s not on government property troll
  
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randy
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:49pm
Gave me chills seeing this……. Merry Christmas! and God Bless you all!

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:00pm
  Needed to combat Jewish communism, via Hess, Marx, Alinsky, Emanuel, Sunstein, Axelrod, Lew, Berwick, Bloom, Piven, Volcker, Greenspan, Bernanke, Kagan, Ginsburg, Breyer… on and on.
  
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- qualityrkc
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:47pm
  I am one of those atheists that you all referr to as the communist hell bent on destroying this country. Completely believe in separation of church and state but I actually find this pretty creative and there is clearly no problem with it. I don’t even have a problem with putting nativity scenes on public property as long as everyone from every political and religious affiliation can do the same. Problem is people who believe this is a christian nation don’t react well when they see a satanist alter next to a nativity scene. You guys try to have your cake and eat it too then blame it on people who hold the same beliefs I do.
  
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WellRegulatedMilitia
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:48pm
Well good for them! God Bless

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braddock66
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:39pm
God bless them for doing that! May we all bring a little cheer to someone else. Praise to Our Savior,Jesus Christ.

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dangergirl
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:30pm
Well done! Truth and Light will find a way. Merry Christmas ya’ll.

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- GardenoftheGods
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:47pm
  Amen! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Y’all!!!
  
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girlnurse
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:30pm
If you want to see how far we’ve fallen as a country take a look at some of the so called Christmas cards! I just recieved one from a relative and I still can’t believe it. Its ALL about him! No mention of Christ…Then I get a great one from an uncle that has the nativity scene on the front and so sweet. JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THIS SEASON!

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- libertarianodinist
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:22pm
  Girlnurse,jesus isn’t thre reason for the season since he was born in the spring,not winter.Also,main aspects of christmas come from the germanic tribes who worshipped Odi,all of it is pagan in orgin
  
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- VanGrungy
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:56pm
  odinist,
  
  go suck Hitler’s balls
  
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- Pnis
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 7:15pm
  Another educated, classy, well thought out response by VanGrungy.
  
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- Greenwood
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:24pm
  @GIRLNURSE………”Jesus is the reason for the season”
  
  The only event Jesus specifically instructed his followers to commemorate was his death, not his birth. (Luke 22:19,20 ) There is no historical evidence that the early Christians celebrated the birth of the Christ. But they did memorialize his death. (1 Corinthians 11: 23-26) It was not until more than 300 years after Jesus’ birth that Christendom began to observe Christmas on December 25. In the mid-17th century, an act of parliament banned Christmas celebrations in England. In the US the Massachusetts General Court did the same. Why? It was nothing but a pagan festival covered with a Christian veneer honoring the agricultural god Saturn and the sun god Sol Invictus, or Mithra.
  
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- The_Cabrito_Goat
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:57pm
  4/20 is the date of Hitler’s birthday, and yet it also coincides with National Pot Day. When stoners light it up, are you telling me they are doing so in honor of Hitler, just because the two events share the same date?
  
  You atheists are like a broken record.
  
  “Pagan pagan pagan”
  
  ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
  
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- realseabee
  Posted on December 27, 2012 at 2:28pm
  Jesus was a Jew, said to remember the passover and the sabbath, both have been foregone by christians.
  
  Jesus was most likely born in the fall. Taxes are collected each year during the census. But in order to collect taxes, you had to wait until the harvest was in and sold. Tax collectors were no more likely to want to collect taxes in the winter than the next person. Hence, October or there about is considered the most likely time frame for his birth.
  
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ranepowel
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:29pm
Well, as a Santa Monica resident I know what litigation I’m going to be filing today. Shame on these people for this. I don’t want MY KIDS to see crazy displays of YOUR NONSENSICAL RELIGION. If I wanted them to see the nativity I’d send them to a church to get molested.

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- siobhan3270
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:44pm
  Why does this bother you so much if you think its nonsensical? If I believed in Unicorns and said so publicly would it piss you off so much? Or would you just see me as a little silly and misguided? Why does Christ make you SO angry. Listening to people like you makes me believe all the more because I see Satan’s anger in you. God believes in you, even if you don’t believe in Him.
  
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- mizzouwendy
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:48pm
  I hope you are being sarcastic……..but if not, then please, please, please……….do not take off for Christmas as this is a CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY! Pure and simple……go to work that day instead of taking your paid day off. Hopefully you are just kidding though.
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:48pm
  Man, you really are hate-filled aren’t you? I am so glad that lefties like you are so TOLERANT. You have a right to believe, or not believe as you see fit. But you have NO right to stiffle others whom wish to celebrate the true meaning of this season.
  
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- LakeHartwellSailor
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:10pm
  @siobhan3270
  
  Demons always get angry at the notion of Jesus Christ.
  
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- J.C. McGlynn
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:11pm
  rp:
  Believe in space aliens —-check.
  Believe in zombies — check.
  Believe the problems in Roman Catholic church is same in all of Christianity — check.
  Believe government will take care of you when you really need it — check.
  Believe in something greater than yourself — nope.
  According to conclusions drawn by modern day Rome historians, from 1a.d. to 500a.d., 250000 to 500000 dead Christians can’t all be wrong.
  For all else there is stupidity.
  
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- sexyvixen21
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:31pm
  wow- you need to lighten up in life. I better you’re a joy to live with- God Bless & Merrry Christmas.
  
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- jimmymac1
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:02pm
  Your kids are more likely to be molested at home, and then pregnant at 13 or shooters because they think it is their right
  
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- mandmsgirl
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:33pm
  @Ranepowel
  Oh you poor baby, buses don’t go where you are do they?
  
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momrules
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:21pm
Beautiful……..just beautiful.

Thank You God for loving us so much that you sent us Your Son.

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- Marichele
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:37pm
  Agreed, I started to cry. Always do when I realize what He went through for us.
  God Bless and Merry Christmas!
  
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U4eeeahhh
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:15pm
Cute and just 6 minutes on PRIVATE Property rather than 45 days on public land. If you haven’t lived in Santa Monica, you don’t know what a mess the old Nativity displays created and the extra homeless it brought to Palisades Park area.. The park was Nativity free for many, many years before the 1952 display was set up. [1875 to 1951]

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- guntotinsquaw
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:49pm
  The “extra homeless” would come to the Nativity?? Really, that’s your gripe? REALLY??
  
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biohazard23
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:15pm
Merry Christmas, everyone!!!

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BladeFyre
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:14pm
Awesome! Way to go!

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TheEDGE
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:08pm
Hahaha! A little nativity upside your head, huh lefties? Expect a lot more of it in the future, too.

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ruth
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:03pm
merry Christmas jesus is the reason for the season

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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 4:53pm
  So there was this CEO. He decided that He wanted to create a Universe. So He did. It was beautiful, like the most amazing painting you’ve ever seen, or video or movie..Beautiful and breathtakingly so.
  Then He wanted to talk to people about it…share ideas…share the creation He’d made.
  The ‘back-story’ to this CEO (whom we call GOD) was the place he lived in (we call HEAVEN) only had one boss. There was
  one being there who was jealous, spiteful, angry and a real trouble maker…so this bad guy got kicked out of Heaven and went to Earth. This bad guy (we call him Satan) took up residence in God’s new creation: We call it earth. He can’t read minds but he can whisper to God’s Creations. Satan’s M.O. is to cause doubt and to discourage God’s Creations. Satan whispered to EVE and she corrupted ADAM and sin entered her DNA, therefore into the world. The GOOD v. Evil has been going on since then. JESUS, born to be the Only SINLESS sacrifice as required to pay for all our sins, came to earth, born of a Virgin and showed all humanity the way out of sin and to GOD.
  People who don’t believe in God or Jesus deprive themselves of the reason for this life – which is a testing period to allow people to come to God and choose Him and gain eternal life in a Heaven without sin.
  It’s up to all of us who are fortunate enough to believe to inform those not being taught about God and answering those who are Satan’s minions. GOD is our JOB 1.
  
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:01pm
And the flash mob kids with the felony feet say to themselves.. good time to steal some stuff while everyone else is occupied…

I’d rather see this kind of flash mobbing that is portrayed in the video here.

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:16pm
  TIME, I’m with you on that.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:20pm
  Aye…
  
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banjarmon
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:01pm
Merry Christmas to everyone on the Blaze INCLUDING the lib trolls!!!

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- TheEDGE
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:11pm
  Merry Christmas to you and yours also! It’s going to be a good one.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:16pm
  Dittos BANJARMON!
  
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- RisetovotesiR
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:33pm
  happy holidays
  
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TeresaJ
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:00pm
Awesome!

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coyote1hell
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:58pm
If you don’t believe..fine, just keep your..damn…mouths shut, don’t infringe on the rights of others, that don’t view your world as you do…shut-the-hell-up…

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- Pnis
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 7:28pm
  If we’re going to be talking about rights, I have every right to criticize your beliefs. You also have the right to criticize mine, which folks here on the Blaze do quite harshly. It’s actually spelled right out in the first amendment. I’m simply exercising my rights as an American when I mock your belief. Quite patriotic if you ask me.
  
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- Vladia
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 2:44am
  Pnis: You are correct- you do have that right. Whether it’s patriotic, though, is another matter. I didn’t ask you, but I did ask George Washington. This is what he had to say on the subject: “Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness — these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.” That’s from his Farewell Address.
  
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- Pnis
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:25am
  As a Christian, George Washington linked religion with morality. I do not link the two and believe people can be perfectly moral without it. I guess GW and I disagree slightly.
  
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jrc99
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:57pm
Well done!

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:56pm
That was great. While as far as I care, most flash mobs can be like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaBZMuS32zY
But, I did thoroughly love the one in the story.

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SecretAmerican
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:56pm
Not believing in a creator is the ultimate in ignorance.

Atheists will all agree 100% of the time that their iPhone was created… and then tell you in the same breath that Earth, humanity and the Universe (which is INFINITELY much more “complicated” than your iPhone) was NOT created.

It all just popped out of thin air one day.

This reasoning is the very definition of ignorant.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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- DeavonReye
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:03pm
  Why do you have to taint this story by posting this? Can’t you just post on how you thought it was nice instead of poking at people who don’t believe your claims?
  
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- JRook
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:08pm
  You are correct. But the notion that the creator is captured in the writings of a single religion or single group of people is the ultimate arrogance. There is not doubt that a greater energy or force exists in the universe, call it god if you will. But it is doubtful that man has any idea what that energy or force is and unlikely we could comprehend or understand it if it was revealed to us. And if people are looking for an answer as to why there is a movement away from church or Christianity. You might want to start looking inside the flock for the individuals who through arrogance, disrespect for others, lack of charity and other attributes of their lives contradict their professed beliefs and faith.
  
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- Calm Voice of Reason
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:17pm
  The iPhone was a product of technological evolution. This can hardly be disputed.
  
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- DeavonReye
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:33pm
  See what ya did? Poke the bear, . . . . . . . . . . and, you know…
  
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- soccerreff
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:52pm
  @JROOK: you might want to check your facts about Christian charity. Christian organizations give more and serve more year round as well as during disasters than any other organization. You will also find Christian are more welcoming, loving, forgiving and respectful. I have no idea who you have met or talked to, but the true Chrstian is all of these things.
  
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- macpappy
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 6:41pm
  That my friend is the stupidest thing i have seen on the Blaze blogs in a long time.
  If you don’t know the difference between gathering chips and silicone together to produce an IPhone and the philosophy of Phyisical Evolution then why even go there.
  Merry Christmas to you, too.
  
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- rollthebones
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 10:19am
  @ macpappy,
  “If you don’t know the difference between gathering chips and silicone together to produce an IPhone and the philosophy of Phyisical Evolution then why even go there.”
  
  Do the basic premises of evolutionary theory only apply to the biological world?
  There are many that would argue that the basic premises of evolutionary theory could also be applied to technology, ideas, economies and other systems.
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:55pm
Excellent.

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Tri-ox
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:54pm
Beautiful.

Keep CHRIST in CHRISTMAS!

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- libertarianodinist
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 3:25pm
  Keep Odin in The Yule Holiday
  
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- Greenwood
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 8:47pm
  @TRI-OX…..The similarities between Mithraism and Christianity have included their chapels, the term “father” for priest, celibacy and, it is notoriously claimed, the December 25th birthdate. Over the centuries, apologists contending that Mithraism copied Christianity nevertheless have asserted that the December 25th birthdate was taken from Mithraism. As Sir Arthur Weigall says:
  
  December 25th was really the date, not of the birth of Jesus, but of the sun-god Mithra. Horus, son of Isis, however, was in very early times identified with Ra, the Egyptian sun-god, and hence with Mithra…
  
  Mithra’s birthday on December 25th has been so widely claimed that the Catholic Encyclopedia (“Mithraism”) remarks: “The 25 December was observed as his birthday, the natalis invicti, the rebirth of the winter-sun, unconquered by the rigours of the season.”
  
  So what is the reason for the season?
  
  2Corinthians 6: 14-16 Do not become unevenly yoked with unbelievers. For what fellowship do righteousness and lawlessness have? Or what sharing does light have with darkness?15Further, what harmony is there between Christ and Be′li‧al? Or what portion does a faithful person have with an unbeliever?16And what agreement does God’s temple have with idols?
  
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Cavallo
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:54pm
Love it.

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SquidVetOhio
Posted on December 19, 2012 at 12:53pm
That’s kind of cool. I guess. Not sure Jesus flash-mobbed anyone but, still pretty cool.

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- banjarmon
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 1:07pm
  A Flash Mob of 5000 fed with 2 fish and 5 loaves!!!!
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on December 19, 2012 at 2:49pm
  touche’
  
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