Do atheists go to work on Christmas Day?
Month: December 2004
Putting the Christ in Christmas
I’m more tired of people complaining of people taking the Christ out of Christmas, than the people taking Him out. Why? Because it’s to be expected. It’s been happening for years, it’s not going to stop happening, and whining about it won’t change anything either. Why do we really care if stores don’t put up Christmas crap? IT’s CRAP! So what if they don’t put up a tree and put up “holiday firs”. Why should we care? Yes,. occassionaly people go overboard in what they don’t allow. I heard that apparantly some school banned some kids from passing out Christmas cards. That stuff we can actually fight. Not only because it protects Christians, but because it potentially sets precedents for the free exerciese of Jews, Muslims, and even atheists. But about the stores with their firs, and a-religious decorations. What do the trees even mean to us, as Christians? Let the world have it’s crap and material goods and let the moneychangers desecrate their temples the way they want. Focus on prayer, fasting, and preparing for the coming of the Savior. Remember, CELEBRATING Christmas puts the Christ back in there.
Such, then, are their customs about the Exmas. But the few among the Niatirbians have also a festival, separate and to themselves, called Crissmas , which is on the same day as Exmas. And those who keep Crissmas, doing the opposite to the majority of the Niatirbians, rise early on that day with shining faces and go before sunrise to certain temples where they partake of a sacred feast. And in most of the temples they set out images of a fair woman with a new-born Child on her knees and certain animals and shepherds adoring the Child. (The reason of these images is given in a certain sacred story which I know but do not repeat.)
Happy Christmas, Acirema!
I was for god, before I was against god, before I was for him
Flew flying from atheism has raving atheists seeing blew (blue?), and yet again his audience of atheists and theists alike completely ignore his social satire and quietly slip into inane and pointless internet arguing. You know, post upon post and drowning in posts and who knows who is answering whom posts. If there’s one thing that will never be solved through medium the internet, and particularly posts on a ‘blog’, it’s most definitely the ‘god’ argument.
I’m just glad there are theists nicknamed “spongebob” out there somewhere in cyberspace. It’s…comforting.
Elsewhere, Dr. William Blosser has a fact filled post on the matter. Thanks, doc.

