Christmas is all about absconding with a Pagan holiday celebrated at the solstice; you know, the annual rebirth of the sun that conveniently occurs just a few days before.
And many of the main features of christmas are stolen directly from the Pagan celebration in a clear attempt to take it over. And what passes for scholarship amongst the religious has long ago determined that if such a person really existed his birth wasn’t any where near the end of December.
So the season has nothing to do with the birth of a Jewish prophet turned into some christian deity and it has everything to do with obscuring a Pagan celebration.
Nothing new really, many of the christian holidays are conveniently located adjacent to older Pagan celebrations. But don’t tell the christians, facts only confuse them and make them angry.
I can’t afford to celebrate Christmas this year in any obvious way, and I am mortally SICK of the idiots who get bent out of shape when people say ‘Happy Holidays’. So instead of just not celebrating Christmas, I’m not celebrating ALL the holidays – St. Nicholas’ Day, St. Lucia’s Day, Finland’s Independence Day, Hanukkah, Festivus… you name it, I am proudly not celebrating it.
Sadly, I have yet to encounter any of those self-righteous, self-centered morons who think that THEIR beliefs and traditions are the only ones that matter. I’m looking forward to it.
I don’t know if I would call it a war, but there seems to be a movement to abolish all holidays. New Year’s Day, Easter and July 4th at one time were actually holidays. Now they are just ordinary weekdays with business as usual.
Thanksgiving Day is the latest casualty, thanks to Macy’s and the other greedy giant retailers who are now open for business on that day. The purpose of having a holiday is to take an occasional break from the daily grind. It’s not healthy to run in constant high gear 24/7/365.
Christmas is all we have left, and it’s only a matter of time before that becomes the next target for destruction. People need to take a stance now and take back the holiday season before we are left with nothing.
Before we get too far into the season, I’d like to wish everybody above and all the rest of you as many Hammy hugs as you need to make it through the holidays! I could certainly use a few.
As a member of a minority religion, I truly feel sorry for people who want to take Christianity seriously. But it’s their own bretheren of a less-religious more-commercial sentiment who are their biggest problem. The various minority (in the US) religions are not under the same constant pressure to commercialize every single holy day, if only because non-practitioners don’t know what to sell and practitioners won’t buy from non-practitioners anyway. Christians will listen to “Christmas songs” sung by anyone of any religion (and WRITTEN by anyone of any religion); see if you can find any minority religion recordings sung by non-members.
Tue Elung-Jensen over 6 years ago
No, thats just the commercialised part.
Armitage72 over 6 years ago
If Christmas didn’t want a war, it shouldn’t have crossed the borders of Thanksgiving to attack Halloween.
MS72 over 6 years ago
like, God needs our help?
wcorvi over 6 years ago
Put the X back in Xmas.
AKJeff over 6 years ago
I thought it was, “5 goldEN rings.”
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 6 years ago
To see the “War on Christmas” in action, watch the screen crawl during a football broadcast on Fox. It will say “Happy Holidays.”
Seed_drill over 6 years ago
sml7291 Premium Member over 6 years ago
Christmas is all about absconding with a Pagan holiday celebrated at the solstice; you know, the annual rebirth of the sun that conveniently occurs just a few days before.
And many of the main features of christmas are stolen directly from the Pagan celebration in a clear attempt to take it over. And what passes for scholarship amongst the religious has long ago determined that if such a person really existed his birth wasn’t any where near the end of December.
So the season has nothing to do with the birth of a Jewish prophet turned into some christian deity and it has everything to do with obscuring a Pagan celebration.
Nothing new really, many of the christian holidays are conveniently located adjacent to older Pagan celebrations. But don’t tell the christians, facts only confuse them and make them angry.
sew-so over 6 years ago
I can’t afford to celebrate Christmas this year in any obvious way, and I am mortally SICK of the idiots who get bent out of shape when people say ‘Happy Holidays’. So instead of just not celebrating Christmas, I’m not celebrating ALL the holidays – St. Nicholas’ Day, St. Lucia’s Day, Finland’s Independence Day, Hanukkah, Festivus… you name it, I am proudly not celebrating it.
Sadly, I have yet to encounter any of those self-righteous, self-centered morons who think that THEIR beliefs and traditions are the only ones that matter. I’m looking forward to it.
I’m a baaad girl.
Whatever happened to common sense? over 6 years ago
I don’t know if I would call it a war, but there seems to be a movement to abolish all holidays. New Year’s Day, Easter and July 4th at one time were actually holidays. Now they are just ordinary weekdays with business as usual.
Thanksgiving Day is the latest casualty, thanks to Macy’s and the other greedy giant retailers who are now open for business on that day. The purpose of having a holiday is to take an occasional break from the daily grind. It’s not healthy to run in constant high gear 24/7/365.
Christmas is all we have left, and it’s only a matter of time before that becomes the next target for destruction. People need to take a stance now and take back the holiday season before we are left with nothing.
lee85736 over 6 years ago
Before we get too far into the season, I’d like to wish everybody above and all the rest of you as many Hammy hugs as you need to make it through the holidays! I could certainly use a few.
URL over 6 years ago
O, commercecon, o, commercecon, how wistiful the season. I bought a Santa teapot set and a Mrs. Claus-in-a-wreath with skis on.
DutchUncle over 6 years ago
As a member of a minority religion, I truly feel sorry for people who want to take Christianity seriously. But it’s their own bretheren of a less-religious more-commercial sentiment who are their biggest problem. The various minority (in the US) religions are not under the same constant pressure to commercialize every single holy day, if only because non-practitioners don’t know what to sell and practitioners won’t buy from non-practitioners anyway. Christians will listen to “Christmas songs” sung by anyone of any religion (and WRITTEN by anyone of any religion); see if you can find any minority religion recordings sung by non-members.