The Grinch Refuge Thread

[BlackLantern]

the Catholics do make the claim that Jesus was born on December 25 or thereabouts...manger, 3 kings, all that....how is that not co-opting?

 

[Heretic]

wasn't Jesus born in the summer time? also...he was brown.

Yes, the sun god, who looks exactly like the modern day image of Jesus, was born on Christmas.

Oddly enough, the bible...that book that condemns Christmas activities...says that in the end times the sun god Apollo would be the Beast, and would convince Christians to worship him while THINKING that they were worshiping Christ.

Kinda like...you know...kinda like by having his image take over the image of Christ and having Christians participate in sun god rituals to celebrate his birth. By celebrating Christmas, Christians are doing precisely what Revelation warns will happen...but hey...they want to have fun!!!

 

[Heretic]

the Catholics do make the claim that Jesus was born on December 25 or thereabouts...manger, 3 kings, all that....how is that not co-opting?

No one makes that claim.

 

[BlackLantern]

well what about people of other faiths that choose to participate in Christmas?? are they doing something wrong?

 

[Heretic]

well what about people of other faiths that choose to participate in Christmas?? are they doing something wrong?

It depends on what their religion is.

Like I said, Constantine betrayed Christians by convincing them to worship the image of Apollo. They were convinced to worship the sun gods birth by participating in rituals that the bible condemns. The Pope who declared that Christmas would be held on the sun gods birthday was...get ready...Pope Sixtus III, LITERALLY Pope 666!!!! So, the sun god is named as The Beast in Revelation who fools Christians into worshiping him while thinking they are worshiping Christ, AND the Pope who enacted it was the number of his name!!!!

But you asked about other religions...

I feel that athiests are doing nothing wrong, because according to their doctrine, there is no god, and no sun god. You aren't angering anyone, and you arent betraying a sacred book.

If you belong to a religious group, then you should have the will to follow it's guidelines, and actually know it's history. If pagan idolatry is not listed as a bad thing in your religion, then Christmas should be fine.

 

[BlackLantern]

I say we just switch everyone over to Festivus....Aluminum pole, feats of strength, airing of the grievances

 

[knowsbleed]

did Christmas put that person in jail?? No, it didn't

Im sorry for your issues, but you can't pin that on the holiday season

Because doing so would truly hurt the feelings of the holiday season.



He can choose to pin whatever he wants on the holiday season as he will remember this moment because of the very fact that it's the holiday season. Christmas is the perfect scapegoat for any and all grievances. The only people hurt by it are religious extremists who we all know would be better off minding their own business.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

This christmas hasn't been all that. But the large dinner, plenty of Stella Artois, Remi Martin and some drunken yet strangely satisfying sex improved it

 

[AndThePickles]

Christmas effin sucked; I'm glad it's over.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Why did it suck Pickles?

 

[AndThePickles]

I worked all day and then had a frustrating night at home.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Aww crap Well I hope you enjoy New Years Eve then.

 

[AndThePickles]

Me too! I have off from work every day next week except for Monday, so I'm really looking forward to it.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Doing anything special for it? Raving?

 

[AndThePickles]

Haha, nah, no raving for New Year's. Spoons and I are going to a really nice dinner dance that we've made a tradition the past couple of years, though. You?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Thats sounds nice

I'm just having a chilled one this year. Me and my mates were gonna raving, but I'm going to my girlfriends families party thing now. Should be good, I wasn't really feeling the raving this year anyway.

 

[AndThePickles]

That sounds fun. Sometimes it's nice to be able to talk and relax.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Yea definitely. Her family are nice so we'll have a good old knees up!

 

[AndThePickles]

Lol I can't say that I've heard that expression before. Oh British people.

 

[Ace of Knaves]

It just means have a good time, get on it, maybe a bit of karaoke and dancing (well not for me )

 

[AndThePickles]

No karaoke and dancing for you? You've gotta!

 

[knowsbleed]

Here's to hoping that New Year's is better than Christmas and that someway, somehow... video of Knaves karaoke-ing gets leaked on the internet...




... and that Spoons dances with more drunken old white men.

 

[knowsbleed]

I'm bumping this early this year for no particular reason other than to let all who tread realize that this year's holiday season is already turning out to be as legendarily vomit-tastic as prior years.

No witty/smarmy remarks... just pure hate for Thanksgiving and Christmas.



*hate*







... okay...


... maybe just one smarmy remark...


but it won't be mine:

Spoiler

You're a Troll, Slim.
This is supposed to be a haven for people who despise Christmas.
You're just like the people who go into the Rap thread to say that Rap is garbage.


Anyway, Christmas is a sham of a mountain of bulls*** on a foundation of bologna with crap and concentrated eye/ear torture sprinkled all over it.


I could fill 3 or 4 phonebook-sized volumes with everything I hate about Christmas, and I have.....it's old news.

But right now, one specific facet of it is standing out more than usual....

THE BELLS​

Hear the tolling of the bells -
Iron bells!
What a world of solemn thought their monody compels!
In the silence of the night,
How we shiver with affright
At the melancholy menace of their tone!
For every sound that floats
From the rust within their throats
Is a groan.
And the people - ah, the people -
They that dwell up in the steeple,
All alone,
And who, tolling, tolling, tolling,
In that muffled monotone,
Feel a glory in so rolling
On the human heart a stone -
They are neither man nor woman -
They are neither brute nor human -
They are Ghouls: -
And their king it is who tolls: -
And he rolls, rolls, rolls,
Rolls​

What.An.Obnoxious.Cacophony!!!!!!!!!

Jingle Bells
Jingle Bells

Give me money!
I'm dressed in a shabby Santa costume.
Give me your money!


Jingle-Jingle-Jingle

Clank Clank Clank

jing-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling-a

****!

SERIOUSLY!​

****!​

 

[Alex The Great]

I've seen two christmas commercials today

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

seen a few and the big store in my town has the display up in the window already, i love Christmas but this is beyond the joke