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An Atheist Christmas Carol at last!

  • 24-12-2010 1:51pm
    #1
    Tim Robbins
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    Ok, if you are getting sick of all the Religious propaganda, here's a nice number for you!

    'An Atheist Christmas Carol',
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4wVRcE5gIs


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  • #2
    rainbow kirby
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    I prefer to go with Cthulhu carols. Why settle for a lesser evil? :pac:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSvsy11PHxM


  • #3
    Rabble Rabble
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,367 ✭✭✭Rabble Rabble


    Alternatively listen to the Christmas songs about santa, snow, and chestnuts.


  • #4
    Dades
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    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    Alternatively listen to the Christmas songs about santa, snow, and chestnuts.
    Ah yes, those old Christian traditions!


  • #5
    Galvasean
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    Dades wrote: »
    Ah yes, those old Christian traditions!

    I think what he meant was that they can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of religion or lack therof.


  • #6
    Genghiz Cohen
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    Galvasean wrote: »
    I think what he meant was that they can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of religion or lack therof.

    :pac:


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  • #7
    The Mad Hatter
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    Rabble Rabble wrote: »
    Alternatively listen to the Christmas songs about santa, snow, and chestnuts.

    How will that ever help us progress the Atheist Agenda?


  • #8
    rccaulfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,015 ✭✭✭rccaulfield


    The Mad Hatter wrote: »
    How will that ever help us progress the Atheist Agenda?

    Wa? Wat agenda, i don't have an agenda cos i don't belive in leprauchauns? Its Xmas, its a cultural thing, yes i stand up to religious nonsense but not santa etc for the kids!


  • #9
    Galvasean
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    I think he was joking...


  • #10
    nozzferrahhtoo
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    The "at last" part of the title of the thread drew me in as I felt the need to post this. Not exactly an "atheist" carol but one that shows the "true" spirit of christmas has nothing to do with religion and more to do with money.

    Written and performed in the 50s (which is why I was drawn in by the "at last") I include the lyrics here with the spoken intro and outro from the live version....

    Tom Lehrer - A christmas carol
    One very familiar type of song is the Christmas carol. Although it is perhaps a bit out of season at this time. However, I'm informed by my "disk jockey" friends - of whom I have none, that in order to get a song popular by Christmas time, you have to start plugging it well in advance. So here goes.

    It has always seemed to me after all. That Christmas, with its spirit of giving, offers us all a wonderful opportunity each year to reflect on what we all most sincerely and deeply believe in.

    I refer of course, to money. And yet none of the Christmas carols that you hear on the radio or in the street, even attempt to capture the true spirit of Christmas as we celebrate it in the United States. That is to say the commercial spirit. So I should like to offer the following Christmas carol for next year, as being perhaps a bit more appropriate.

    Christmas time is here, by golly,
    Disapproval would be folly,
    Deck the halls with hunks of holly,
    Fill the cup and don't say "when."
    Kill the turkeys, ducks and chickens,
    Mix the punch, drag out the Dickens,
    Even though the prospect sickens,
    Brother, here we go again.

    On Christmas Day you can't get sore,
    Your fellow man you must adore,
    There's time to rob him all the more
    The other three hundred and sixty-four.

    Relations, sparing no expense'll
    Send some useless old utensil,
    Or a matching pen and pencil.
    "Just the thing I need! How nice!"
    It doesn't matter how sincere it
    Is, nor how heartfelt the spirit,
    Sentiment will not endear it,
    What's important is the price.

    Hark the Herald Tribune sings,
    Advertising wondrous things.
    God rest ye merry, merchants,
    May you make the Yuletide pay.
    Angels we have heard on high
    Tell us to go out and buy!

    So let the raucous sleigh bells jingle,
    Hail our dear old friend Kris Kringle,
    Driving his reindeer across the sky.
    Don't stand underneath when they fly by.

    Actually I did rather well myself, this last Christmas. The nicest present I received was a gift certificate "good at any hospital for a lobotomy". Rather thoughtful.


  • #11
    The Mad Hatter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭The Mad Hatter


    rccaulfield wrote: »
    Wa? Wat agenda, i don't have an agenda cos i don't belive in leprauchauns? Its Xmas, its a cultural thing, yes i stand up to religious nonsense but not santa etc for the kids!

    Didn't you get your copy of the Agenda? The NWO is supposed to send you one as soon as you renounce religion. It's not like them to mess up.


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