Shannon, Thanks for your comment. The point of the post is that there would be no holiday season apart from the celebration of Christmas. Without a saving relationship with Jesus Christ there is no reason for joy or happiness in this world. To wish happiness for something that does not exist is not really a blessing. You are right that it is important to be thoughtful and kind in our expressions.
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The point of the post is that there would be no holiday season apart from the celebration of Christmas.
Explain Hanukkah, Solstice, Saturnalia, Festivus, &c.
"You are right that it is important to be thoughtful and kind in our expressions."
Is it? That's not what I heard, you stupid twit!
So... Unless you believe in the concept of a saving relationship with your interpretation of a shadowy 2000 year old dude... You can't experience any joy or happiness at, say, getting a new job, going on holiday, or the birth of your first child?
"Well Geraldine, yes the magic of birth is great, and out new baby is cool and all, but because I'm a beastly heathen who lacks a saving relationship with Christ watching his birth has given me precisely as much joy and happiness as watching paint dry."
Without a saving relationship with Jesus Christ there is no reason for joy or happiness in this world.
That really sounds pathetic. I mean, the idea that you can't have happiness without your religion is just plain sad, and sounds a lot like what cult members say.
In the old days people use to have celebrations for the changing of seasons and during the peak of the season. That's why they tend to be in the Spring (Easter), Fall (Halloween) and mid Winter (Christmas) any religious context was later added.
One of the main "reasons" for the season is that when kingdoms and empires were changing from their old religions to Christianity they realized that the people were more willing to convert if their old holidays were simply converted as well.
midwinter festivals were celebrated millennia before the supposed jesus, supposedly of Nazareth, was supposedly born. the only reason anyone's ever needed to celebrate around that time of year is "it might be dark and cold and miserable, but the days are getting longer again! yay, we're gonna make it through another one!"
So you're a fundamentally broken person, unable to find any joy or happiness whatsoever in interactions with other human beings, outside the context of collectively kissing God's ass? What a sad, miserable life you must lead.
Somehow Shep has managed to avoid photos of smiling Chinese Buddhist children, laughing, joyful images of Muslims and Jews and atheists. I know you Christians have seized one day a week and the entire month of December and pretended that they are for Christians only. But you cannot claim all the world's joy for yourselves, and trust me, I find you quite amusing as well.
"...thoughtful and kind.." exhibits neither.
All other issues notwithstanding, this idiot doesn't realize that Easter should be the big deal, not Christmas, if it's salvation that she considers important
The point of the post is that there would be no holiday season apart from the celebration of Christmas.
The point of my post is this: you don't know what the hell you're talking about. Christianity didn't even have any holidays to observe until it began picking up on pre-christian Pagan traditions. Your 'christmas' is our Yule/Solstice, repackaged to appeal to christpunchers.
You're not a special little snowflake, sweetie, and neither is your 'holiday'.
When christianity develops something unique unto itself, then call me. Until then, read a fucking history book. Research isn't physically or spiritually damaging. You people just act like it is.
"To wish happiness for something that does not exist is not really a blessing."
Funny, that's our reasoning against you guys...
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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