Nice love this wish we really had freedom

I’d say between 9-10:30am.

Pickle Party getting more active this year.

Fun fact! Displays from individuals or community groups used to be allowed inside the Capitol via a simple permitting process. However, in the early-mud 2000s a bit of a winter holiday display war began inside the building, with multiple groups requesting permits for different holiday displays and people complaining. At that point they decided that it was too much and now displays can only done on the grounds, which is why these are on the lawn.

I get a kick out of the entire thing.

>No lie detected.

Yep, that's what my reaction was.

>The holiday season isn't only for those who belive in some religious character.

That's kind of where I am too, 'cept for Rudolf.

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What do your kids love about Whidbey? The wife and I are looking in the area and she prefers Whidbey while I’m partial to sequim. We’ve got 3 young ones who love nature and outdoor activities.

I have the same exact camera with ssne lense! I will definitely be trying out a good Pan shot like this!

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>Please just let people live their lives and shut the fuck up, I'm begging you.

That's how a lot of us feel about religion interfering with public life, so here we are.

I absolutely love it. The holiday season isn't only for those who belive in some religious character.

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Hey, they’re the ones Ronnie Reagan used to do commercials for!

No lie detected.

As a matter of fact, you could. For example, you could have used the word "have" instead of the incorrect homophone "of."

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Because the Capitol Campus is a place where citizens can put up displays for the holidays. That's also why there's a menorah. I'm surprised more groups haven't taken the opportunity to share something meaningful to them in a public space.

> and all of you should know that the Winter Solstice was hijacked by the Catholic Church to convert the pagans just like Easter and every other holiday.

There's not much need to know it since it really has no effect whether a person considers Christmas important or not.

Also, while that suggestion might not be completely without relevance, it's also not an argument with historical evidence, and it's far from the full background on how, lacking any records of a date when Jesus was born, various groups of Christians around the Roman world gradually consolidated on December 25 as the mutual date to celebrate it. The solstice is naturally significant to almost every non-tropical culture. Early Christian writers sometimes drew on traditional titles for Jesus like "Light of the World" to suggest the solstice - the beginning of days of increasing light - was a fitting time to celebrate His birth.

For a short summary of some of the theories on how December 25th was settled on, you could start with the Wikipedia article on Christmas,

I don't disagree, and yeah, I love a lot of the stuff the satanic temple does, I'm just saying specifically I don't like the freedom from religion commercials. Like I said, they seem to do good work, it's just their marketing that rubs me the wrong way.

The thing is, there is "SUPPOSED" to be a separation of church and state in the US. And when the govt imposes rules based on religious ideology, you HAVE to fight back. The abortion and the marriage equality issues recently demonstrate this clearly.

So, while they continue to put up religious idols at govt buildings, there should absolutely be opposing material available. I'm particularly a fan of the baby baphomet from the Satanic Temple.

The atheists aren't the ones imposing their views FROM the seat of government. A display does not force you to do anything

Anyone who dedicates their life to making provocative public statements about religion (from literally any standpoint, for or against) is an annoying idiot piece of shit.

Please just let people live their lives and shut the fuck up, I'm begging you.