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Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
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Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
An interesting coincidence happened the other day that prompted me to quip - "It's a Saturnalia miracle".

The person I said it to - a xtian - got all bent out of shape and ranted "It's CHRISTmas..... How dare you hijack our holiday with these made-up festivals?"

When I pointed out that Saturnalia pre-dated Christmas by a millenia - they accused me of making shit up....

Dodgy

Seriously?

The Romans came AFTER Jesus?

Neandrathal man hauled a pine tree in his cave and left milk and fucking cookies out for Santa?

Ooookayyyy...

I guess believers just believe.

Verifiable facts be damned...
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#2
RE: Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
When you're working from a book that largely made-up it's easy to believe that everybody else is wrong.
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RE: Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
His personal self-image and narrative is that of an aggrieved and persecuted person who just wants to go Back To The Good Old Days or some version of that thought. He probably thinks Jesus put up the first Christmas ornaments and finds the notion that even Christians used to celebrate it quite differently before the last few hundred years to be sacrilegious. Sadly ... you can't help him. He doesn't want your help. Leave him to his slumber.
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RE: Denial isn't just a river in Egypt.
(December 27, 2019 at 9:06 pm)mordant Wrote: His personal self-image and narrative is that of an aggrieved and persecuted person who just wants to go Back To The Good Old Days or some version of that thought. He probably thinks Jesus put up the first Christmas ornaments and finds the notion that even Christians used to celebrate it quite differently before the last few hundred years to be sacrilegious. Sadly ... you can't help him. He doesn't want your help. Leave him to his slumber.

Years ago I frequented a forum that had a distinct lean to the right...

One member "Southernbelle74" a young xtian woman from Alabama once proclaimed - "If the King James Bible was good enough for Jesus - it's good enough for me!".


It's a rare occasion when I am stunned into silence.


Truce
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