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RE: Santa "executed" by Firing squad.
December 22, 2010 at 2:18 am
Well.... that was dumb.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
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RE: Santa "executed" by Firing squad.
December 22, 2010 at 2:28 am
An unfortunate waste of time for classic "hurrdurr."
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RE: Santa "executed" by Firing squad.
December 22, 2010 at 7:11 am
'It's not about flying reindeer, it's not about gifts, it's not about snowmen, it's not about snowflakes, it's not about elves, and it's certainly not about some stupid man in a red suit'. He's right. It's about a magical moving star, it's about three men who bring, er, gifts, it's about angels (not those stupid non-existent elves) and it's about some man who both is and isn't God, who can perform magic and come back from the dead.
So you idiots who believe in Father Christmas remember that.
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RE: Santa "executed" by Firing squad.
December 22, 2010 at 9:29 am
(December 22, 2010 at 7:11 am)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: 'It's not about flying reindeer, it's not about gifts, it's not about snowmen, it's not about snowflakes, it's not about elves, and it's certainly not about some stupid man in a red suit'. He's right. It's about a magical moving star, it's about three men who bring, er, gifts, it's about angels (not those stupid non-existent elves) and it's about some man who both is and isn't God, who can perform magic and come back from the dead.
So you idiots who believe in Father Christmas remember that.
And it's about a savior who was born on Dec 25, the day that just so happened to be the winter solstice celebration that they could hijack from the pagans. Even though the Bible clearly says it couldn't have been on Dec 25. "Behold, the shepherds were abiding in their fields, keeping watch over their flock by night." Luke 2:8. The winter solstice was definitely not the grazing season.
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RE: Santa "executed" by Firing squad.
December 22, 2010 at 9:44 am
Perhaps Christians should be brought to trial for the theft of the celebration of the winter solstice, the Birthday of Mithra and Saturnalia and Yule-Tide.
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RE: Santa "executed" by Firing squad.
December 22, 2010 at 12:15 pm
Xtians should be brought to trial for being morons.
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RE: Santa "executed" by Firing squad.
December 23, 2010 at 2:26 am
Well to be fair Santa is an anagram of Satan
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RE: Santa "executed" by Firing squad.
December 24, 2010 at 1:17 pm
just skip to 4:40 and stop at 4:49
" We have perverted christmas into something it never should have become. Now parents you need to stop lying to your children.."
great advice for the religious