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RE: Christmas Songs
December 9, 2015 at 9:58 pm
Nice to know I can't be accused of being an idiot. Well, not accurately anyway.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Christmas Songs
December 10, 2015 at 9:34 pm
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental.
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RE: Christmas Songs
December 11, 2015 at 2:06 pm
(December 10, 2015 at 6:29 pm)athrock Wrote: (December 3, 2015 at 2:16 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Just my take on it, but most Christmas songs don't get the theology right, so they are (blasphemously) acceptable.
Any Christmas carol, for instance, that presumes Jesus was born in the winter, which we know isn't the case as the shepherds wouldn't be tending flocks in frozen pastures, and I also find it weird the (pious) Christians don't have a shit hemorrhage about all the christer disinformation that is disseminated this time of year.
War on Christmas, indeed.
This is one of those ignorant, unsupported arguments that Aractus was talking about in another thread.
Sheep don't graze in the fields in Israel in December? Really? Here's a handy Google search on the terms "Christmas sheep grazing december"
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=ch...g+December
If you're trying to make Christers look stupid, make sure you don't make atheists look stupid instead.
I think the point was it doesn't get that cold in the middle east.
Lets remember the real reason for Xmas being when it is. There was already a party going on at that time because of the solstice, no one knows when Jesus was actually meant to have been squished out so the Xians highjacked the party.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: Christmas Songs
December 11, 2015 at 3:00 pm
The character's birth, about which no one can agree, is nowhere near as important as its death - on which no one can agree. So we're off to a flying start.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'