Virgin Birth?
There is no such thing as a virgin birth. And, Christianity doesn't have a monopoly on virgin birth stories. There are several other religions which have the same story of their redeemer being born of a virgin mother. If I'm supposed to believe the Christian version, they'd better believe all the other versions, too
Christmas Trees
The Druids hold trees in a status on par with a god. Why the HELL would a Christian church take a holy symbol of some other religion and use it? They did it to help their own church congregations grow! It was a conversion technique! Don't try to wedge in some stupid argument that "The triangular shape represents the Holy Trinity".
Luke's Christmas Story
Have any of you Christians actually *read* the Bible? Forget the whole Bible; have you read even the New Testament? Didn't think so.
The Gospels were written many, many, many years after the events they relate occur. The person who wrote "The Gospel According to St. Luke" wasn't there to actually see anything about City of David and Taxes, and Inns, and Mangers, and asses, and Wise Men, and Shepherds, and bright stars.
Do yourself a favor, read Luke Chapter 2 (that's the Christmas Story that we all know almost word for word. You know, "There were abiding in the fijords by night sheepherds watching the clock... Great tidings of great joy and great blah blah blah blah.) Then, go read the other account of the same alleged events in Matthew Chapter 2. Both of those were written LONG after the fact.
The only reason Luke's in the version we all know so well is that it's the more pretty-sounding and makes a nice little complete story. (By the way, "prettiness" was what King James' little minion-translators aimed for.) Oh, and that it was in that Peanuts Christmas special we've *all* seen for the past forty years.
Christmas Songs
The song "Here Come Santa Claus" annoys me in it's final verse:
"'Cause Santa knows that we're God's children and that makes everything right."
Makes what everything right? Interjecting religion into a secular song to appease the Church? Please... Jus' sing the first two verses and we'll all be fine...
Commercialization vs. Christmasization
So, there's an RV Dealer 'round here (I don't want to mention Dan Gamel's name) who says in a TV Commercial that, at his place of business, you'll be wished a Merry Christmas. It's just another flagrant example of the Christian hypocracy. They complain about the "Commercialization" of Christmas, but then here's some idiot using Christmas as a way to drum up business! Can I slap him, please???
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So, Happy Holidays to you all. I hope the Christians will some day stop playing the martyr role; pretending they're so persecuted. They're not. They're the ones doing the persecuting. (
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