This morning's drive results: Fundamentalists SUCK!

[MrsSmith]

jmowreader (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-25-08 06:47 PM
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This morning's drive results: Fundamentalists SUCK!

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Over the last few months, we've been bombarded with the phony War on Christmas crap. You know the deal: Bill O'Reilly goes on and on about how the Godless Secular Lib'ruls are out to destroy Christmas. Focus on the Family sent letters to many of America's biggest chain retailers demanding they use the word Christmas in their advertising. The American Family Association countered with the "It's OK to say Merry Christmas to me" buttons they sell on their website.

So today I got in my car and drove past many of Fayetteville's largest churches to see the endgame of this war come to fruition--the throngs of happy churchgoers flocking to their sanctuaries to hear the Good News of Jesus' Coming.

Well, guess what? The Baby Jesus got left alone on his birthday again. NONE of those churches were open!


**** this War on Christmas shit. Let me tell you something: the fundies won. They have so ruined Christmas I don't even want to celebrate it. Know what I'm doing in this festive, joyous season? Posting on DU on one of my computers while another one makes scans I'm going to eventually use on something I haven't decided yet. The one I'm doing now is of a swing bridge that I photographed out of a boat in 1991. I might post it here if I can ever remember my Photobucket password.

 

    How dare those fundies have Christmas Eve services and then stay home on THURSDAY, Christmas Day!!!! 

jmowreader (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-25-08 06:52 PM
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3. They can ****ing have it.
 I'll make 'em a deal: they can take sole possession of December 25 and whatever day Easter falls on (it varies) if they cede the first Tuesday in November and January 20 to us in perpetuity.

Hey, we gave you April 1st!!  It's just for you guys!!   

thecatburgler  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-25-08 06:51 PM
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2. The fundie churches near me are all closed too.
 What, you thought they'd be open and carrying out Jesus' command to help the poor? Pshaw.

 
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 ikojo (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-25-08 06:56 PM
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4. As a Jew I find it odd that many Christian churches do 
 Edited on Thu Dec-25-08 06:57 PM by ikojo
not have services on what is allegedly one of the holiest and most sacred days of the Christian calendar. That would be like not having services on Rosh Hashanah.

Wow!!!

Guess the gift giving orgy IS the most important aspect of Christmas. 


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 Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Thu Dec-25-08 06:58 PM
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5. That's a riot
 What a great idea. Kudos to you for going out and checking on those hypocrites. I guess Baby Jesus is on his own, so I hope someone remembered the cake and candles. He's sure not gonna get anything out of those mindless twits.

You know, they're such bad, bad losers. All they've got left are their petty little campaigns, like the imaginary war on Xmas, crap like that.

We still have to be vigilant with them, though, eternally vigilant. They're not godly - they're not even decent. They'll lie, cheat, and steal to get what they want, and it's up to us to make sure they don't get it.

Your doing this, and reporting it here, is a great first step. Watchfulness. Calling them on it.

Thank you for one more very fine Xmas gift.

 

More DUmp tolerance...

regnaD kciN  (1000+ posts)        Thu Dec-25-08 07:21 PM
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7. The reason why...
 ...is that, over the course of the past few decades, more and more Christian churches have moved their principal (or only) Christmas services to Christmas Eve. In the old days, lots of Protestant churches wouldn't do so, because it was "too Catholic" (i.e. like Midnight Mass), but, as animosities between denominations has faded, so has that liturgical distinction.

Remember that, when it comes to Christmas, Christians use the Jewish notion of the "day" beginning at sundown, not dawn. Thus, the evening of the 24th is Christmas, just as much as the day of the 25th. Plus, since Jesus was born at night, it makes sense to celebrate his birth at night as well.

I've always attended Christmas Eve services, and only rarely done so on Christmas morning.

So, in essence, this is really a non-issue. Most likely, those same fundie churches were packed for two or even three services last night. You may have valid reasons for criticizing fundamentalism (or Christianity as a whole), but churches having their services on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day isn't one of them.
 

Ooops!!  Owned!!   

[FlaGator]

So, in essence, this is really a non-issue. Most likely, those same fundie churches were packed for two or even three services last night. You may have valid reasons for criticizing fundamentalism (or Christianity as a whole), but churches having their services on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas Day isn't one of them.

Doesn't matter, they'll criticize anyways.

[USA4ME]

They also seem to have this weird notion that the only way to come in contact with God and Jesus is at a church on designated "holy days" like Chirstmas and Easter, like it's a commandment that everyone must assemble at a church on man-made religious holidays or they're not really righteous.  Or that if God's command to help the poor isn't originated from the church parking lot, then it didn't happen.

And while not as obvious, they use the term "Baby Jesus" in a derogitory way, trying to leave people with this image that the Son of God is nothing more than a helpless baby.  They have their reward here in earth for their deeds.

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[Gwitness]

We had a full house on Christmas Eve.   Too bad these DUmp monkeys were not there...they would have learned a thing or two.

[BlueStateSaint]

We did, too--three times.  A Mass at 4 PM, one at 7 PM with the contemporary choir, and one at 9 PM with the "adult" choir (the one I'm in).