RE: Christmas
July 18, 2010 at 2:15 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2010 at 2:21 am by Joe Bloe.)
Whenever somebody has a go at me for celebrating Christmas, I tease them something chronic, until they wish they'd never ever mentioned the subject. I just keeping asking questions about the Christmas story as it appears in the bible and eventually get the true believer tied up in knots. For example:
When was Jesus born?
Matthew says before 4BC while Herod was still alive, but Luke says after 6AD when Quirinius was Governor of Syria.
Where did Jesus go after the wise men had departed?
Matthew says Egypt, Luke says Jerusalem and then Nazareth.
I ask them to show me in the bible where it says Jesus was born in a stable...
It says nothing of the sort, and Matthew specifically states that he was in a "house". The word "stable" is never used.
[Some idiot believers think that a "manger" is a stable - it isn't - and I tease them some more]
I know the story of Christmas from back to front, and each year I manage to annoy the shit out of one or two pompous twits who have a go at me for being an atheist who celebrates Jesus' birth.
Why?
Because I don't celebrate Christmas - and I make them pay dearly for their assumptions.
When was Jesus born?
Matthew says before 4BC while Herod was still alive, but Luke says after 6AD when Quirinius was Governor of Syria.
Where did Jesus go after the wise men had departed?
Matthew says Egypt, Luke says Jerusalem and then Nazareth.
I ask them to show me in the bible where it says Jesus was born in a stable...
It says nothing of the sort, and Matthew specifically states that he was in a "house". The word "stable" is never used.
[Some idiot believers think that a "manger" is a stable - it isn't - and I tease them some more]
I know the story of Christmas from back to front, and each year I manage to annoy the shit out of one or two pompous twits who have a go at me for being an atheist who celebrates Jesus' birth.
Why?
Because I don't celebrate Christmas - and I make them pay dearly for their assumptions.
