People are starting to talk about the war on Christmas, and one guy brought up a good point. Christians have been at war with other holidays, including ones that happen during the winter solstice, for so long that it's odd that they complain about some sort of war on Christmas. Forget that Halloween is treated as some sort of evil celebration of demons, and Thanksgiving is almost completely ignored when it comes to store merchandise. Christmas has more stuff pertaining to pagan celebration, family togetherness, and materialism, than it ever does about some dudes birthday. You have to go out and look for nativity scenes to even remember that Jesus has any involvement in a December tradition.
I guess that's what they mean by the war on Christmas, but this kind of stuff has been going on forever, and in the 1800s the puritans actually tried to ban the holiday for being too pagan. What you're trying to get back was never really yours to begin with. You just act selfish when you cry foul about using a term that includes all religions in a shared time of the year, instead of insisting on the term Merry Christmas.
I guess that's what they mean by the war on Christmas, but this kind of stuff has been going on forever, and in the 1800s the puritans actually tried to ban the holiday for being too pagan. What you're trying to get back was never really yours to begin with. You just act selfish when you cry foul about using a term that includes all religions in a shared time of the year, instead of insisting on the term Merry Christmas.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
