Goddamn Atheists Are Pissing Me OFF!
:soapbox: That's right I said it. I am sick and tired of you people ruining one of only two days a year I can actually stand to be around my entire family.
December 25th is the day me and mine choose to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. If we choose to do it by dragging a conifer into the house and decorating it with everything from lights and garland to gilded cherubim and cranberrys that is my right.
I am sick to death of Holiday Breaks, Holiday Cards and Happy Holidays Greetings. I like seeing lit menorahs and Christmas trees downtown and in front of city hall. If you don't like it ignore it.
I've noticed many of you don't let your true feelings known until you are given a gift at Christmastime. Then you smugly say, "I don't believe in God and I don't give gifts." Or best yet, "it's all a myth" or "Christmas trees belong to the pagans." I have noticed you never give the gift back. :tongue:
So you are offended by organized religion, thats fine. I find many of them offensive myself. Some religions have little if anything to do with being christian or even with being good people. I would like to believe that they once did but lost their way . . . much like you.
:biggrin1: My faith and my religion are my business. I would LOVE to see Christmas be less commercial! I HATE that every movie and cartoon has to have a toy/product tie-in so that many parents feel obligated to go in debt to fulfill their child's Christmas Wish List.
That is not the true meaning of Christmas.This year for the first time in about 18 years I did not send out a politically correct, all purpose, holiday card. My card is simple, it says "Merry Christmas" on the front. Inside: "May your Christmas be filled with happiness and your new year filled with joy." If you choose to take offense to such a benign and mild message well then Bah Humbug on you! :tongue:
FWIW:
- I am aware that pagans consider the Christmas tree one of 'their things.'
- I am aware that shepherds tend their flocks in spring not winter.
- I am aware that there are inconsistencies in the bible. I prefer the KJV no surprise there.
Besides if Christmas is okay with Wookies why does it bother you so much? Star Wars Holiday Special
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The War on the War on Christmas:soapbox:
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It is coming just as it does every year. There is no stopping it. As surely as trees are decorated and stockings are hung by the chimney with care, we brace ourselves for it. It is just part of the routine. You could say it has become tradition.
It is Christmas a season of acrimonious public debate.
Media warriors divide the ranks of those on two sides: those who gleefully view public Christmas observance as a right versus those who glumly view Christmas as a state-imposed endorsement of religious worship.
The buzz they create touches nearly every part of an otherwise festive season filled with light, color and music. There are heated arguments over the need for public funding for Christmas lights. Many nearly come to blows debating the mere use of the word Christmas in schools and at public events. Long-winded television commentators warn incessantly of Christmas under attack while politicians drone on about the separation of church and state. Retailers and their customers haggle over the use of the phrase Merry Christmas. Scholars debate over the pagan origins of modern Christmas celebrations while Christian fundamentalists denounce efforts to remove the mention of Christ from any holiday event. Every Christmas season seems to elevate the debate to a new level of absurdity.
Ironically, eleven months of the year Christmas is left alone. The passionate debate largely subsides right after Christmas until the season rolls around again. It is a war of the strangest sort. The central message of Christmas is peace. Yet just in time for the season of peace all other burning issues are set aside for this one: the dreaded conflict called Christmas. For the month of December they go to battle. There are never any winners or losers and the war never ends.
We believe both sides of the debate are wrong. We believe the media is woefully irresponsible in fanning the flames of controversy. We believe in the 95% Sentiment: most of us like to keep Christmas and we dont think there are many people offended by it.
We assert there is a war on Christmas. It is an old and unsettled debate. But it has nothing to do with television pundits, school grounds, city parks or Supreme Courts. The war on Christmas is fought in the home and in the heart.
This web site exists to separate the media hype from the truth about Christmas. We work to shift the debate away from who and where it is observed to how and why we observe it.
Our simple mission is to referee the passionate-though-misguided combatants in the War on Christmas. If we have to discuss these things and evidently we do then we will be a voice of reason for both sides of the debate and serve to provide simple reminders of peace on Earth, goodwill to all men.
