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I'm dreaming of a secular Christmas
In these modern secular days
With a secular tree with secular lights
And a Santa in a secular sleigh
I'm dreaming of a secular Christmas
With lots of secular snow
With a secular wreath and some secular lights
And some secular mistletoe
No baby in a manger
No wise men at his bed
No thought of Jesus Christ at all
Just get him out of your head
I'm dreaming of a secular Christmas
With lots of secular snow
With a secular Santa in a secular sleigh
And a secular HO HO HO!
No baby in a manger
No wise men at his bed
No thought of Jesus Christ at all
Just get him out of your head
I'm dreaming of a secular Christmas
Have a Happy Holiday!
Don't forget the secular eggnog
Just forget just whose birthday...
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The above is of course sarcasm, but I think that ironically, antitheists might embrace it.
I am offended by the Honda commercials, where toys given to adults when they were children as "holiday gifts" are attempting to sell cars.
There are no "holiday gifts". Only Hebrews and Christians; it's Hanukkah gifts and Christmas presents. and only 1.8% of Americans are Jewish. Damned Japanese! Then I had a second thought -- is there a Japanese holiday where gifts are exchanged?
It turns out that there is a Japanese holiday, this year on the last day of Hanukkah. It's the Emperor's birthday, but gifts are not exchanged; the emperor's palace is open to the public on that day.
Honda ad agency people, you are idiots. 1.8% of Americans are Jewish, 77% identify themselves as Christian. Guess what, morons? You just offended half the Christians in the US while trying to not disenfranchise the less than two percent who are Jewish.
If you're trying to use Christians' second most holy day to further your worship of mammon, you better damned well mention Christ, or risk pissing off half the population.
(Score: 2) by Jeremiah Cornelius on Friday November 28 2014, @07:04PM
Against the religion of your masers: The Chosen People.
You're betting on the pantomime horse...
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday November 29 2014, @02:26AM
Against the religion of your masers: The Chosen People.
You worship microwave lasers?? ;)
As to masters, I've been referred to as "Iron Balls" before. And I don't think they were talking about my prowess at pinball.
Carbon, The only element in the known universe to ever gain sentience
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 29 2014, @09:46AM
The whole Christmas story is full of holes.
So, the Romans are going to have a census where everybody has to return to the place of his birth?
Nonsense. That would turn the region upside down.
For starters, bunches of innkeepers will be out on the road.
The business sector wouldn't be producing goods, so they're not generating taxes.
Empires are really big on collecting taxes.
This crap is bad fiction.
Now, they're going to have this census in the Winter?
Insanity.
A more logical explanation of the date chosen for the holiday:
People had been celebrating the Winter Solstice since they noticed that weather changed and available daylight waxed and waned.
The Romans co-opted that celebration and developed the holiday of Saturnalia; the Christians co-opted that and it became Christmas.
A few changes in the window dressing and Robert is your father's brother.
Further, you would think that a census with such bizarre rules would have been mentioned by a legit historian.
No such record exists.
If there actually was a Nazarene rabbi who could turn water into wine and do other cool parlor tricks and that guy was laid in a feed trough shortly after birth, it seems likely that that birth was in the Spring when people can travel without a bunch of them freezing to death overnight.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Thursday December 04 2014, @11:44AM
Here's one well-known atheist's take on the (ostensibly) religious festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCNvZqpa-7Q [youtube.com]
Mirrors my feelings pretty well (although it's not white wine in the sun in my hemisphere.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 05 2014, @07:07AM
White Wine In The Sun Lyrics [metrolyrics.com]
-- gewg_