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16 Sep 2014, 3:51 am

Even as an atheist, I like Christmas, except for the obscene commercialism.
Kind'a like the fairy tales kids love. Nothing wrong with a 'moderate' amount of fantasy.
And on the fantasy side of things, Game of Thrones is kind'a like adult Christmas. :P 8O :lol:


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16 Sep 2014, 7:13 am

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I have not been paying attention lately to the BS express coming from Fox News, but as I notice that the commercialization and exploitation of Christmas for profit is in full thrust 100 days before the actual holiday...Has Fox, O'Rielly and Hannity yet begun their regularly scheduled, scripted, fabricated and highly anticipated "Liberal war on Christmas" campaign? If not, stay tuned.


Will IS start a campaign against muslims that jump on the christian bandwagon is what I would like to know?



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16 Sep 2014, 8:41 am

"Defending Christmas" is like "defending bedbugs", or "defending mosquitos". It's not even an endangered species. In fact its an invasive species (more and more of the year is devoted to hyping Christmas each year).

Except that its even dumber than that. Bedbugs and mosquitos DO get "attacked" on occasion by the Orkin man. In the long run they thrive anyway. But atleast they do get attacked.

Christmas doesnt even get "attacked".



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16 Sep 2014, 9:42 am

I neither attack nor support Christmas. It just comes and goes like any other named time of the year with no support or intervention by me. If Christmas continues or became extinct I wouldn't care either way.

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16 Sep 2014, 4:14 pm

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I neither attack nor support Christmas. It just comes and goes like any other named time of the year with no support or intervention by me. If Christmas continues or became extinct I wouldn't care either way.

:shrug:


But then, how would you get all those cool presents?!?!?


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16 Sep 2014, 4:51 pm

What presents? :lol: We don't celebrate Christmas in any way, it is a day just like any other.


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16 Sep 2014, 4:54 pm

Personally, as an agnostic, I am indifferent. This war on Christmas is just rather ridiculous, though.


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16 Sep 2014, 5:09 pm

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What presents? :lol: We don't celebrate Christmas in any way, it is a day just like any other.


Well then... what would I do without all those cool presents?!?!?!


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16 Sep 2014, 5:46 pm

Yup-- We start banging the culture war drum shortly before Halloween/Samhain/All Soul's Day. Every year. As predictable as cooling temperatures in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

Please accept my pre-emptory "Merry-Happy-Joyful-Blessed-Have-A-Nice-Whatever-You-Celebrate." "Can I pour you a cup of coffee, and would you like to tell me about your tradition?"

Personally, I spend the Solstice in solitary meditation, thinking back over the year. I also put up a tree, tell my children the story of the Nativity, life, and death of Jesus (can we agree on the common spelling?), and pay my quarterly tithe to the gods of market capitalism in the form of "holiday gifts."


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16 Sep 2014, 6:48 pm

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Yup-- We start banging the culture war drum shortly before Halloween/Samhain/All Soul's Day. Every year. As predictable as cooling temperatures in the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

Please accept my pre-emptory "Merry-Happy-Joyful-Blessed-Have-A-Nice-Whatever-You-Celebrate." "Can I pour you a cup of coffee, and would you like to tell me about your tradition?"

Personally, I spend the Solstice in solitary meditation, thinking back over the year. I also put up a tree, tell my children the story of the Nativity, life, and death of Jesus (can we agree on the common spelling?), and pay my quarterly tithe to the gods of market capitalism in the form of "holiday gifts."


It's kinda funny how the same people who b*tch about a war on Christmas say that Halloween is satanic and should not be celebrated. :roll:


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16 Sep 2014, 6:55 pm

equestriatola wrote:
Personally, as an agnostic, I am indifferent. This war on Christmas is just rather ridiculous, though.


How can something that doesnt exist be 'ridiculous'?



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16 Sep 2014, 7:29 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
equestriatola wrote:
Personally, as an agnostic, I am indifferent. This war on Christmas is just rather ridiculous, though.


How can something that doesnt exist be 'ridiculous'?

She may be talking about the Christian reaction, or the actual commercialization of Christmas.


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16 Sep 2014, 7:44 pm

He's a "he".

But yeah- he probably means the WAR ON the nonexistent "war on christmas" waged by O'Reilly et al. is "ridiculous".



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18 Sep 2014, 11:17 pm

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ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
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ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
That sounds a lot like what we have in Christians Churches in the Bible Belt. Where were you raised, if you don't mind me asking?


Middle of nowhere, central Ohio. Right on the line between cows and corn country and hundreds of square miles of woods. My dad's family is all from the W Va foothills and my mom's from scary deep south Mississippi plantation country.


Southerners can be very religious.


I'm a bit of an anomaly here in the Pacific Northwest being a church goer. Thankfully, no one that I see on Sundays buys into Fox's crap about a war on Christmas.

Hm I think you have a lot of churches up there so I am guessing lots of people attend them. Maybe they aren't so fanatical as they are in the deep south. Millennials can take things to whole other level.



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18 Sep 2014, 11:30 pm

Christmas in Australia, anyone?
It's pretty laid back...


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19 Sep 2014, 12:06 am

ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
sonofghandi wrote:
ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo wrote:
That sounds a lot like what we have in Christians Churches in the Bible Belt. Where were you raised, if you don't mind me asking?


Middle of nowhere, central Ohio. Right on the line between cows and corn country and hundreds of square miles of woods. My dad's family is all from the W Va foothills and my mom's from scary deep south Mississippi plantation country.


Southerners can be very religious.


I'm a bit of an anomaly here in the Pacific Northwest being a church goer. Thankfully, no one that I see on Sundays buys into Fox's crap about a war on Christmas.

Hm I think you have a lot of churches up there so I am guessing lots of people attend them. Maybe they aren't so fanatical as they are in the deep south. Millennials can take things to whole other level.


To be sure, I am exaggerating a bit about there not being many churches in the Pacific Northwest :lol:. But you're right, the religious right is not the most popular sort of religion here.


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