Filthy atheists stealing our Christmas

MrPudding

Hi all,

I thought I would get this one over with nice an early this year so we can all relax and enjoy our winter holiday.

So, blah blah blah, you don't believe in jesus so why do you celebrate CHRISTmas blah blah blah, you are such a hypocrite, blah blah blah, CHRISTmas is for CHRISTians, blah blah blah, CHRISTmas much be crap in your house 'cos you are a filthy atheist and don't believe in anything, blah blah blah.

Please chip in if I missed anything.

MrP

MrStuffins

What's Christmas?

I celebrate Festivus!

Ickle Magoo

Don't forget to accentuate the CHRISTmas before shouting hypocrite. :pac:

tricky D

Remind me now please, which festivals was Xmas robbed from?

Knasher

I actually successfully stole it last year, so the christians will just have to celebrate something else.

Jimoslimos

Dey tuk urrrrr chrissmizz

Coriolanus

MrStuffins wrote: »

What's Christmas?

I celebrate Festivus!

Heathen! Winterval is where its at.

Gordon

An atheist celebrating Christmas is as hypocritical as a Christian celebrating Santa at Christmas. Who really gives a f*ck, it's just a reason to have a holiday off from work to spend having a good time with your family.

MrStuffins

No fair is fair!

If you don't believe in Christ, you shouldn't celebrate Christmas!

My brother was at the Occupy Dame Street protest, so now he must refuse to accept the day off when it's a BANK Holiday!

It's just pure logic, no getting away from it!

MagicMarker

I really can't wait for Christmas, I love those Christmassy hymns like 'Jingle Bells', 'Mistletoe and Wine' and 'Winter Wonderland'.

johnny_ultimate

I prefer Annual Gift Day myself, with its token Evil Santa Clause who lives on the moon.

I'll always enjoy the fact there's a holiday in the year where the world basically shuts down and people get together to have a great time (not to ignore that it does stink for people who believe they have nothing to celebrate). I'm happy to ignore the religious motivations of the day and have a few days with friends and family.

I'm a bit concerned how many musicians I love are coming out with Christmas albums this year, though. This is the only Christmas ditty for me, because its laced with delicious cynicism. German cynicism!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R9QTv6rngc

MrStuffins

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I'm happy to ignore the religious motivations of the day and have a few days with friends and family.

It's always been about this to me so my ignorance of the religious motives is natural.

It always gives me a lil internal chuckle when I think that sharing and loving thy neighbour are staples of Christianity, but they wouldn't want to share their festival with those neighbours who don't believe the same tripe as they do!

Gordon

Fine! I will request that my workplace opens on Christmas day to pander to my beliefs.

johnny_ultimate

I do love that hour at Christmas when the rest of the family go to mass.

This year I'm going to try and recreate Risky Business.

MrPudding

MagicMarker wrote: »

I really can't wait for Christmas, I love those Christmassy hymns like 'Jingle Bells', 'Mistletoe and Wine' and 'Winter Wonderland'.

I frickin' love christmas. Can't wait. Winter Wonderland is my all time favorite hymn. I found myself singing it this evening for some reason, hence the thread.

MrP

ShooterSF

For fecks sake OP we haven't even gotten through Jesusween yet and you're talking about Christmas?!

johnny_ultimate

ShooterSF wrote: »

For fecks sake OP we haven't even gotten through Jesusween yet and you're talking about Christmas?!

If x is an atheist celebrating Christmas, and y is a Christian celebrating Halloween, what is the average rate of hypocrisy to the nearest three decimal points?

Monty Burnz

ShooterSF wrote: »

For fecks sake OP we haven't even gotten through Jesusween yet and you're talking about Christmas?!

I think you'll find that 'hallow'een' is a corruption of an originally Christian festival called 'Holy Even(ing)' where people dressed up as the apostles and fought evil. I read it somewhere.

super_furry

Have a cool Yule folks.

Turtwig

\ignore OP

:pac:

iguana

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I'm a bit concerned how many musicians I love are coming out with Christmas albums this year, though. This is the only Christmas ditty for me, because its laced with delicious cynicism. German cynicism!

There's big bucks in having a Christmas hit. Just one hit and you never need to work again. Every year you'll get a big pay cheque in January after all the radio play, play in shops, use in adverts and tv shows. How I wish I could write one.:cool:

ShooterSF

iguana wrote: »

There's big bucks in having a Christmas hit. Just one hit and you never need to work again. Every year you'll get a big pay cheque in January after all the radio play, play in shops, use in adverts and tv shows. How I wish I could write one.:cool:

I just can't wait to hear "I won't do what you tell me" in the shopping centre and on the radio. One of my favourite xmas songs (and Frosty the Snowman of course)

strobe

MrPudding wrote: »

I frickin' love christmas. Can't wait. Winter Wonderland is my all time favorite hymn. I found myself singing it this evening for some reason, hence the thread.

MrP

My favourite too. It always reminds me of our glorious savior John MCClane and the sacrifice he made for us all those years ago.

YIPPEE-KI-YAY



YIPPEE-KI-YAY, everyone!

The Internet Explorer

I have requested my mother to buy baby for Christmas this year. Turkey is overrated.

Littlehorny

iguana wrote: »

There's big bucks in having a Christmas hit. Just one hit and you never need to work again. Every year you'll get a big pay cheque in January after all the radio play, play in shops, use in adverts and tv shows. How I wish I could write one.:cool:

Too true! saw an interview with Noddy from Slade and they asked him if he was sick his "I wish it could be Christmas everyday" song and he said "do i b****x thats my pension that song!:D

legspin

Littlehorny wrote: »

Too true! saw an interview with Noddy from Slade and they asked him if he was sick his "I wish it could be Christmas everyday" song and he said "do i b****x thats my pension that song!:D

[pedant]
Apart from the fact the Noddy Holder wrote "Merry Christmas Everyone". Roy Wood wrote "I wish it could be Christmas everyday".
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biko

As long as there is mead, glazed ham and pressies I couldn't give a **** what we're celebrating.

celticcrash

There`s no atheists in fox holes.

Paparazzo

celticcrash wrote: »

There`s no atheists in fox holes.

Says who?

Knasher

Paparazzo wrote: »

Says who?

I don't see any foxholes. :pac:

Sarky

Christmas became so much more fun once I gave up all that midnight mass stuff.

While my parents and sister are off praying for renewed family ties through the magic of kneeling down and not talking to eachother, I'm with my two brothers actually renewing family ties through the magic of the pint-volume white russian, large cuban cigars and that classic film that teaches us the TRUE meaning of the season, Die Hard.

ShooterSF

Sarky wrote: »

Christmas became so much more fun once I gave up all that midnight mass stuff.

While my parents and sister are off praying for renewed family ties through the magic of kneeling down and not talking to eachother, I'm with my two brothers actually renewing family ties through the magic of the pint-volume white russian, large cuban cigars and that classic film that teaches us the TRUE meaning of the season, Die Hard.

NEWSFLASH: Atheists team up with Commies to steal Christmas!

Doctor DooM

ShooterSF wrote: »

NEWSFLASH: Atheists team up with Commies to steal Christmas!

Don't you know atheists ARE the commies?

Good Christians are capitalists, duh.

Penn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR_8kmOmxyk

Paparazzo

Sarky wrote: »

Christmas became so much more fun once I gave up all that midnight mass stuff.

I used to hate mass at christmas. My "catholic" parents used to make me and my brother go to mass even though they hadn't gone in about 20 years. They gave up making us go on sunday, but persisted with christmas for a few more years
Can't think of a worse thing to make a kid do. Give them a load of new toys and tell them they can't play with them till they're back from an hour of mass.

In fact, if hell does exist, it's a never ending session of mass on christmas day on one of those poxy uncomfortable wooden church benches.

just quote jeremiah 10 at them

Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen.... For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Yes, it's out of context. No, I don't care, because it's funny

ShooterSF

Penn wrote: »

*muppets vid*

Along with Die Hard and, the last few years, Bad Santa, I watch that film every year.

Sarky

Ah, Bad Santa. I love that film just for adding the phrase "you won't be able to sh*t straight for a week" to my repertoire.

sensibleken

Political correctness gone maaaaaaaadd!!!!!

aidan24326

tricky D wrote: »

Remind me now please, which festivals was Xmas robbed from?

Something to do with the Winter Solstice, some old Pagan Festival. No evidence at all that Jesus was born around December 25th. (not much evidence that he was born any other time either but we'll leave that for now).

But if I met Jesus now I would thank him for all those delicious Christmas dinners and the hot port and brandy and the few days off work. Cheers Jesus.

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Bad Santa is an EPIC movie!

Sarky - your festivities sound quite spectacular. Good job kind sir. This will be my first year out of the country so I will be celebrating Christmas with my girlfriend and her family. It will probably be my second ever white Christmas too. Sweet! Likewise, while they are out visting their local church I will be getting stuck in to a bottle of Midleton and some turkey & ham sammichs with YR sauce, and a bit of salt and mustard too.

If anyone complains about you celebrating family time (that's essentially what this is, a family holiday) - say to them that Christians stole Christmas from the Pagans thanks to Constantine. It was a Pagan holiday before they came along. That usually shuts people up. Christ was born in March/April timeframe.

Malari

I'm just tell them I'm quite comfortable with being a hypocrite

Penn

ShooterSF wrote: »

Along with Die Hard and, the last few years, Bad Santa, I watch that film every year.

My Christmas Movie List:
Die Hard
Muppet Christmas Carol
Bad Santa
Scrooged
Elf

:cool:

Dades

Only pegged Die Hard 2 as the greatest Christmas movie ever on my Facebook a couple of weeks ago.

I hated Bad Santa.

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Dades wrote: »

I hated Bad Santa.

Witch! Burn her! :eek:

New_Flash

Sarky wrote: »

....the TRUE meaning of the season, Die Hard.

Amen Brother!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTyw6cq86kY

Penn

Dades wrote: »

Only pegged Die Hard 2 as the greatest Christmas movie ever on my Facebook a couple of weeks ago.

Die hard 2? Ahead of Die Hard 1?

Madness. Bad Santa I can understand, but Die Hard 2 better than 1?

Die Hard 1 symbolises Christmas perfectly. Meet up with family (wife). See some people you don't want to see (terrorists). Play a few games (big shoot-outs). Bit of an argument over what to watch on telly (blow up the roof of a building). Have a laugh (Ho Ho Ho now I have a machine gun). Eat and drink too much (Ellis taking too much coke). And just sit around and do nothing (most of the hostages and Argyle in the limo)

the_syco

Was Jesus born on 25th December? Then why is the new year a few days later? Ever think that Jesus may have been born on the 1st of January, and that the 25th is just a pagan festival that the christains took over?

Usually shuts them up :P

=-=

I celebrate birthdays, easters, chrimbo, St Patricks International Irish Drinking Day, and one or two other yearly festivals.

ShooterSF

Remember as well that pastafarians celebrate "Holiday" around that time of year too and anyone who wishes you "Happy Holidays" is in fact (probably) referring to said celebrations. And as Holiday is celebrated by many more than christmas, including the White House and more recently Thomas the Tank Engine I could suggest that atheists (and commies) are actually stealing Holiday instead. Bastards.

Dades

Penn wrote: »

Die hard 2? Ahead of Die Hard 1?

Not enough snow (or Christmas sweaters) in Die Hard 1 to be truly a Christmas movie!

Sorry - I don't make the rules!

MrStuffins

Some great Festivus movies being suggested here. But the thread is missing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGrLLn4nooQ