The Christmas Wars

"To make up for lost time ..." Double your Christ!

Then you are not watching FOX or the christian networks, listing to the christian radio programs or reading the christian blogs and forums. It's more than pervasive. It's a study drum beat of christian martyrdom and abuse by this society with (given the season) "Merry Christmas" right there at the top of the bitch list. The rest of the year is the gay and the mooslim and more the mooslim and more the gay. With a sprinkling of jesus' love and burning in hell. But mostly it's the gay and the mooslim and that satanic "Season's Greetings".Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

That's because the war is being waged only by the fundamentalist side. The rest of us don't care.But it is a bloody desperate battle for the soul of the nation, doncha see. The poor christians are being hounded, beaten and fed to the lions by massive hoards of blood-thirsty gays, mooslims and (ack!) a secular liberal atheist army! Obama is leading the atheist army dressed in his keffiyeh with those red horns of his sticking out of it. The children are being starved of the love of jesus. "Merry Christmas", school prayer and city park nativity scenes must be returned to their god-given rightful places lest the nation suffer from god's wrath ... and gays ... and mooslims ... and hurricanes and droughts and high interest rates.If you haven't had the opportunity before you might be entertained by the crazy things Ed picks up for his Dispatches from the Culture WarsA recent FOX shothttps://youtu.be/KABPtihXbxEA bit of historyhttps://youtu.be/jdRWWcG45X4One morehttps://youtu.be/9MtkgB_qtHwThere really must be a war on christmas because the christians keep saying there is.There's plenty around but I don't want to do more.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

Of course I am! Despite stories to the contrary these sources will not rot your eyeballs or poison your frontal cortex. How else to know what the weirdos are doing if you don't listen to and read them? I would respond with a "Well done." Surprised?If you don't know it's going on, and indeed it is, you won't know it when you see it in the open and how to counter it.Know thine enemy.

Get pissed at Santa? You're kidding, right?Santa brings you presents. Cammo gear, gun oil, AK-47s, fruitcake shotgun pidgins, silhouette targets of Obama, all the things a good christian family needs.

So, is it OK to say "Merry Christmas"? Yes.Is it OK to say "Merry Christmas" if non-christians would object? Still yes.Is it OK to say "Season's Greetings"? Yes.Is it OK to say "Season's Greetings" if christians object? Still yes.Is it OK to tell an objecting non-christian that saying "Merry Christmas" is appropriate in a secular society? Yes.Is it OK to tell an objecting christian that saying "Season's Greetings" is appropriate in a secular society? Yes, again.Is it OK to tell anyone who objects to either phrase that they are being inappropriately oversensitive and they should stop being such an ass? Definitely yes.Is it OK for anyone who objects to either phrase to be an ass and voice their objections anyway? Yes, as long as they can accept me being an ass right back at them. If they can't accept that then they can fuck off and don't come back until they pull their head out of their ass.I use both phrases interchangeably depending only on what decides to come out of my mouth at the time and when I get objections, very rarely at that, I'm an equal opportunity asshole in response.I love this Christmas Holiday season.

Your song has nothing to do with the birth of the Savior. It is a secular screed with secular notions and secular emotions. It is just another shot at christians in the ongoing War On Christmas.Mine is quite different. It speaks of tragedy, belief, healing, overcoming personal struggle and a warning to friends and neighbors, a witness to any that have the heart to hear. And it actually says "Merry Christmas" at the end.KABOOM! right back at you! In the true Christmas Spirit.Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.

My lack of deep knowledge of fMRI has a question.Looking at the center image for the three sets I see no read at the crown of the Christmas group, no read at the crown of the non-Christmas group yet the is a significant reading at the crown of the image that is supposed to be the "difference" between the other two groups. So, in fMRI world the difference between no reading and no reading is a reading?Say what?

From her god? Nothing if all you did was decorate it and not pray to it.But in general, what happens to tree decorators? Well, in another week they have to undecorate the tree, store the decorations in boxes and put them up in the attic.As for the tree itself, all dried dead and scattering needles everywhere, it goes out to the curb where the waste company picks it up with hundreds of other now dried dead and needle scattering discarded trees and chips it down to sell as mulch.Oh, in some corners of society, if you sang carols while decorating the tree to begin with, then you sing carols as you strip it down too, but you sing the carols backwards.

In religious circles, especially ones where the thoughts of lust are equal to the very acts of depraved fun-having, I would think the intent to worship would be considered as actual worship, thus, your ass is dead meat. If you can find scripture to support this then you may be on to something. If not then I'm afraid you would need to consider your ass to be in a commensurate condition as above.

Actually, Finland has evolved to the higher standards of secularism leaving religious fantasy behind.