Gazelam wrote:Its called Manifest Destiny. American Christian society is plainly manifest as the cultural dominant force in the world. This only started to fade out as a force in the 90's when half baked minority theories and ideas were given an unwarrented and undeserving voice, Louder than it was justified.
Like when Joseph Smith's half-baked minority theories and ideas were given an unwarranted and undeserving voice, louder than was justified, in the 1830s?
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
Merry Christmas, Tal and a cranky Bah Humbug to the rest of you Christians.
"Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're just making him madder and madder" --Homer Simpson's version of Pascal's Wager
Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.
Religion is ignorance reduced to a system.
Tal Bachman wrote:I know there are a lot of religious nuts out there. Hell, I was one for thirty years. And I know they're irritating. But what about all the irritating atheists out there? Many of them seem no less dogmatic than the religious loons they scorn.
You know? If you don't want to say "Merry Christmas", don't say it. But for God's sake (oops), why launch a campaign to get everyone else to stop saying it? Who the hell cares? Ramadan, Christmas, Hannukah, the bizarro Kwanzaa...the more celebration, the better. In fact, I'm thinking of getting in on the act, and starting my own winter religious holiday. Of course, first I'll have to invent a religion, but that doesn't seem so hard. "Talism"...hmmm...kinda has a nice ring to it. What about "The Eight Days of Bachmania"?
Anyway, radical atheists are a notoriously touchy lot, as sensitive to insult as any other group of fanatics, so I just wanted to take the opportunity to come on here and upset them. Stop playing the wet blankets, you dweebs!
T.
I find myself exploring the possibilities of celebrating a very happy Bachmania this year. :-)
What does this holiday entail? Can I wear a toga? Tal, you rock. Religious and non-religious fundies suck.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. -Ghandi
I'm half Jewish. If I'm correct, gramma's "holy days" (hannukah) begins Christmas eve this year. Though you never can tell with those people, they're not really orthodox.
I want the right to be able to say Merry Christmas, but at the same time, I'd be honored if you were to wish me, as Krusty put it, a "solemn and dignified Ramadan". I'd probably ask you what your traditions were, and maybe we could have a cross celebration.
'tis the season for giving for me.
My old boss would celebrate Christmas, but not Halloween, because she's Christian. She won't say santa claus, but seems to forget that Dec 25 is just as much a pagan holiday as she sees halloween to be. My beau pointed out that halloween is the only time you can go to a stranger's door and get treats. But in old boss's eyes, there's something evil in that. Oh, and she also celebrates the made up tradition of Kwanzaa...ah, I love my fellow black folks in this country. Kwanzaa is rediculous, how in the hell can my people put on a kente cloth and think they can bridge the atlantic and 400 years worth of change, and yet still be so ignorant when it comes to what's truly going on over in Africa?
My stepmom was from Uganda. She, and other Africans I've spoken to over the years have told me a lot of things that show me just how lucky I am to live in this country...and also how culturally different we are. Just because we both darken the circle that says "black" on surveys and applications doesn't mean a thing.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. -Ghandi