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Xtians Will Hate This.
November 26, 2018 at 10:01 pm
Sucks to be them.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/christi...s-history/
Quote:Most Christians whining about the ‘War on Christmas’ don’t understand this fact about the holiday’s history
Quote:But here is the real irony: For almost 500 years, the folks trying to get rid of Christmas—trying to put distance between Christian worship and mid-winter solstice festivities—were Christians themselves.
Of course none of them know much about history anyway.
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RE: Xtians Will Hate This.
November 26, 2018 at 10:04 pm
Yes they do! You see, there this special book which tells them everything they need to know about history, the universe and where to stick your dick!.
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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RE: Xtians Will Hate This.
November 26, 2018 at 10:41 pm
The Iliad? The Odyssey?? Mother Goose???
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RE: Xtians Will Hate This.
November 26, 2018 at 10:57 pm
Nah, 50 shades of cray.
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RE: Xtians Will Hate This.
November 26, 2018 at 11:25 pm
(November 26, 2018 at 10:01 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Sucks to be them.
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/christi...s-history/
Quote:Most Christians whining about the ‘War on Christmas’ don’t understand this fact about the holiday’s history
Quote:But here is the real irony: For almost 500 years, the folks trying to get rid of Christmas—trying to put distance between Christian worship and mid-winter solstice festivities—were Christians themselves.
Of course none of them know much about history anyway.
XMas has become a secular holiday, even for "Christians". Tom Flynn, who worked (or, still works) for the Center for Inquiry would, however, come to work on that day, deliberately. I do love Christmas, even as an atheist; for the first time I managed to get my Christmas tree up before Thanksgiving, lights and all. We'll be taking it down a week after New Year's.
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RE: Xtians Will Hate This.
November 26, 2018 at 11:52 pm
Xmas trees only date to Victorian times in England.
Makes sense really.... precious few fir trees in the Judaean desert and damned little snow.
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RE: Xtians Will Hate This.
November 27, 2018 at 7:08 am
(November 26, 2018 at 11:52 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Xmas trees only date to Victorian times in England.
Makes sense really.... precious few fir trees in the Judaean desert and damned little snow.
No doubt; still, I like my Christmas tree like I like potato salad with onion.
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RE: Xtians Will Hate This.
November 27, 2018 at 7:54 am
(November 26, 2018 at 10:57 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Nah, 50 shades of cray.
Linux?
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RE: Xtians Will Hate This.
November 27, 2018 at 8:32 am
Jerehmiah 10:1-5:
'Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.'
So, REAL Christians shouldn't have Christmas trees.
Boru
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Xtians Will Hate This.
November 27, 2018 at 9:51 am
(November 27, 2018 at 8:32 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Jerehmiah 10:1-5:
'Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.
For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.
They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.
They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.'
So, REAL Christians shouldn't have Christmas trees.
Boru
Yabut, that's the OLD testament
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