RE: The fake war on Christmas starts again....
December 2, 2016 at 6:09 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2016 at 6:10 pm by Excited Penguin.)
(December 1, 2016 at 6:56 pm)Aroura Wrote: Against my better judgement, I put 50c in a slavation army bucket last night on my way into the grocery store. The lady ringing the bell says "Thanks, and Merry Christmas", I give her the shy nod, and say "Happy Holidays!" and her smile froze like I had said "fuck you".
Sigh.
You should have.
(December 1, 2016 at 9:21 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(December 1, 2016 at 11:32 am)paulpablo Wrote: What does that have to do with Ramadan? And it is stupid to call it a holiday tree. The holiday you're celebrating with the tree is Christmas. No one's going to get triggered. Everyone already knows what it is.
Actually, it's not. The holiday you're celebrating with the tree is the winter solstice. There's nothing in the Bible or the Christian religion that even vaguely suggests (or even makes sense of) using evergreen trees to commemorate the (completely wrong season) birth of Jesus.
The truth is that pagans used to deck out their homes with sprigs and branches to make their homes look alive, so that Death would pass them by in winter. Or they did it just because it helped them remember that spring was around the corner. Or because Balder the sun god like evergreen trees.
I think I like that heathen thing. Sounds so interesting, I don't know.
