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Filthy atheists stealing our Christmas

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  • #92
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Darksaga87 wrote: »
    Anyone know where i can get a "Happy December 25th" card?
    The easiest source of non-religious cards is "Happy Holidays" e.g. http://www.cardsdirect.com/happy-holiday-cards.aspx
    There are various fake festivals people have invented (Newtonmas, Christmukka, Festivus, Winterval, etc.), and while you may be able to find cards for many of them, they're more likely to be poorly received.


  • #93
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    http://www.etsy.com/listing/36239131/happy-birthday-santa-set-of-3-cards


  • #94
    lemd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭lemd


    celticcrash wrote: »
    There`s no atheists in fox holes.

    mythbusted.jpeg?w=450&h=749


  • #95
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    Darksaga87 wrote: »
    Im always faced with the same BS question each year; "If you celebrate christmas, then why dont you go to mass?'

    Tell them you DO go to mass. Your altar just happens to be a sofa, and instead of "Amen" you chant "Yippie-kai-yay motherf*cker!", and your sacramental wine just happens to be 100-proof...


  • #96
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Sarky wrote: »
    ...your sacramental wine just happens to be 100-proof...
    Anything that alcoholic is not a wine, but a spirit. You can't get that much alcohol by volume without distillation.


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  • #97
    legspin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭legspin


    Sarky wrote: »
    Tell them you DO go to mass. Your altar just happens to be a sofa, and instead of "Amen" you chant "Yippie-kai-yay motherf*cker!", and your sacramental herb just happens to be 100-proof...

    FYP


  • #98
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    mikhail wrote: »
    Anything that alcoholic is not a wine, but a spirit.

    A holy spirit!


  • #99
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    Sarky wrote: »
    Tell them you DO go to mass. Your altar just happens to be a sofa, and instead of "Amen" you chant "Yippie-kai-yay motherf*cker!", and your sacramental wine just happens to be 100-proof...
    mikhail wrote: »
    Anything that alcoholic is not a wine, but a spirit. You can't get that much alcohol by volume without distillation.


    wow. jokes are much better when they've been corrected.


  • #100
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,532 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    sensibleken wrote: »
    Wow. Jokes are much better when they've been corrected.

    Capital letters are not allegations of child abuse. You don't just ignore them!!


  • #101
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    The Christians ripped off the 25th of December from the Pagans anyway.

    Where exactly is Santa Claus and Christmas Trees mentioned in the bible or even the Easter Bunny ? The Pagans are merely taking Crimbo back !

    As for the Corporations like Coca Cola and Budweiser etc. I am sure most of them (the supermarkets for example) merely play Christmas Jingles while you shop because they think theres money in it for them (wrong in my case). They would worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster if it could make them money.
    The last few years I started hearing sleighbell songs over the PA in Dunnes Stores towards the end of October. Feckin irritating.


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  • #102
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Capital letters are not allegations of child abuse. You don't just ignore them!!

    thanks for that. it was just illegible gibberish before the letters were bigger


  • #103
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    psychward wrote: »
    The Christians ripped off the 25th of December from the Pagans anyway.

    Where exactly is Santa Claus and Christmas Trees mentioned in the bible or even the Easter Bunny ? The Pagans are merely taking Crimbo back !

    As for the Corporations like Coca Cola and Budweiser etc. I am sure most of them (the supermarkets for example) merely play Christmas Jingles while you shop because they think theres money in it for them (wrong in my case). They would worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster if it could make them money.
    The last few years I started hearing sleighbell songs over the PA in Dunnes Stores towards the end of October. Feckin irritating.

    Pagans arent taking anything back. The last thing you want is to hand it back to them anyway. they'd only mess it up with pseudo-historical nonsense anyway


  • #104
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,532 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    Lads lads!!!!

    I think we're missing a massive opportunity here.

    Christmas shopping is a nightmare right?

    Well we can get away with not buying presents! We can receive as many pressies as possible but then when they look for some back we can just say:

    "I don't believe in all that Jesus Mumbo-Jumbo, sure what would I be doing celebrating this Christ-Mass you speak of? Now be gone with you, i've 7 new xBox games to play and a Die Hard 27 Disc Ultimate Edition to watch!"


  • #105
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    sensibleken wrote: »
    Pagans arent taking anything back. The last thing you want is to hand it back to them anyway. they'd only mess it up with pseudo-historical nonsense anyway

    It's obvious that commercialism is what Christmas is all about to an awful lot of people. Theres a larger queue of people out of the stores than in any of the Churches at any time of year. The rituals associated with Christmas e.g Christmas Tree, Christmas cards, Christmas sales etc are what's followed most ''religiously'' of all.


  • #106
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    psychward wrote: »
    It's obvious that commercialism is what Christmas is all about to an awful lot of people. Theres a larger queue of people out of the stores than in any of the Churches at any time of year. The rituals associated with Christmas e.g Christmas Tree, Christmas cards, Christmas sales etc are what's followed most ''religiously'' of all.

    Oh I agree. The religious stuff is sidelined. I just wouldnt want pagans taking it back as theyd religious it up again


  • #107
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    sensibleken wrote: »
    Oh I agree. The religious stuff is sidelined. I just wouldnt want pagans taking it back as theyd religious it up again

    It's all worship of money now. The only good thing about Christmas for me is the family get together and even then a bitter argument or two on the day is not unheard of. Personally I'd cancel the whole thing if it didn't at least make kids happy.


  • #108
    Darksaga87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,990 ✭✭✭Darksaga87


    Being dragged to mass ruins it for kids.


  • #109
    pH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    Darksaga87 wrote: »
    Being dragged to mass ruins it for kids.

    Gotta agree, and to be fair the whole story of a little kid being born in a cowshed and getting crap presents throws a downer on proceedings for the little ones.


  • #110
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,617 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    I wouldn't call gold a crap present!

    http://www.cashforgoldireland.ie/

    Cha-chinnggg!


  • #111
    sensibleken
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,650 ✭✭✭sensibleken


    pH wrote: »
    Gotta agree, and to be fair the whole story of a little kid being born in a cowshed and getting crap presents throws a downer on proceedings for the little ones.

    not to mention those three pissed up wierdos crashing the party


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  • #112
    pH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭pH


    Dades wrote: »
    I wouldn't call gold a crap present!

    http://www.cashforgoldireland.ie/

    Cha-chinnggg!

    tis is you're 6!

    And you conveniently left out the bloody myrrh !!!

    :pac:


  • #113
    Dades
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 25,617 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dades


    pH wrote: »
    And you conveniently left out the bloody myrrh !!!

    http://www.cashformyrrhireland.ie/


  • #114
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    New Humanist has a piece on this topic:
    Daily Mail finally admits it was wrong about Winterval.
    We stated in an article on 26 September that Christmas has been renamed in various places Winterval.

    Winterval was the collective name for a season of public events, both religious and secular, which took place in Birmingham in 1997 and 1998.

    We are happy to make clear that Winterval did not rename or replace Christmas.
    So with the Daily Fail walking away from the "War on Christmas", is it finally over?

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #115
    Galvasean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,746 ✭✭✭✭Galvasean


    psychward wrote: »
    Where exactly is Santa Claus and Christmas Trees mentioned in the bible or even the Easter Bunny ?

    Jeremiah 10:2-4

    King James Version (KJV)

    2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

    3For 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.

    4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.


  • #116
    psychward
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭psychward


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Jeremiah 10:2-4

    King James Version (KJV)

    2Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

    3For 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.

    4They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.


    hmmmm despite not mentioning the season etc it could be interpreted as condemning Christmas trees.


  • #117
    Beruthiel
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 42,361 Mod ✭✭✭✭Beruthiel


    Dades wrote: »
    http://www.cashformyrrhireland.ie/

    Site banned for spamming links in every post.

















    :D


  • #118
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Bill Maher's on the case again ... kinda.

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


    :pac:

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



  • #119
    MrStuffins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,532 ✭✭✭✭MrStuffins


    I don't like Bill Maher. While watching his doc "Religious" I found him to be very rude and insulting to those he was interviewing.

    Fine, they believe something you don't. But don't ask these people for an interview and then turn up and laugh in their faces.

    It was, IMO, ridiculously one-sided and was just an attack piece. But maybe I should watch it again.


  • #120
    bnt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,183 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Well, I posted that bit because it's specifically aboot the Phoney War on Christmas. He is a comedian first and foremost, don't forget, but I thought his film came too soon after the Ben Stein "Expelled" film, and used too many of the same tactics - leading questions, selective editing, and so on. His closing speech about Armageddon is dead on the mark, though.

    You are the type of what the age is searching for, and what it is afraid it has found. I am so glad that you have never done anything, never carved a statue, or painted a picture, or produced anything outside of yourself! Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.

    ―Oscar Wilde predicting Social Media, in The Picture of Dorian Gray



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  • #121
    mikhail
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,862 ✭✭✭mikhail


    Saw this and thought of you guys.
    shluR.png


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