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Quote# 11213

[About Christmas and Easter having pagan origins]

seriously, that's what i wanna know
i believe such holidays should only be reserved for Christians though
others shouldn't be given this day of worship, it doesn't make sense

hi, i'm johnny, MySpace 20 Comments [4/28/2006 12:00:00 AM]
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#31304
Prager

Christmas was coopted by the early church: It had been the Feast/Festival (?) of Saturnalia. It was so popular that attempts to end it, all failed. I think people who still worship Saturn should be allowed to openly celebrate alongside christians.

4/28/2006 8:40:16 AM
#31306
urban

It is also a way of celebrating the the reborn of nature, starting with the longest night of the year 21/12

4/28/2006 9:39:21 AM
#31312
Seomah

\"others shouldn't be given this day of worship\"

I don't want your fucking day of worship.

Just give me some holiday days. I'd rather go to work than to worship.

4/28/2006 11:02:06 AM
#31315
Hadanelith

Ummm...I think that Christians shouldn't be given those days of worship, sincce they STOLE THEM FROM US. Imbecile.

4/28/2006 11:31:27 AM
#31318
Tiny Bulcher

Yeah! And May Day should just be for socialists!

4/28/2006 11:50:08 AM
#31325
NotMe

Just because early christians \"stole\" the date and certain traditions from the pagans does not make it a christian holiday. And even if it was, I can't go around forbidding people to celebrate anything on my birthday, so why should you be allowed the sole right to easter? There are 6 billion people on this earth making it very plausible that multiple holidays were, at one point or another, celebrated on hte same day.

4/28/2006 12:20:35 PM
#31334
Nekhbet

I demand time off for Feast of the Aardvark, you will of course be required to work.

4/28/2006 1:19:17 PM
#31339
TDR

What sort of pathetic, petty minded attitude is that?

4/28/2006 1:34:38 PM
#31345
gnostic scholar mad dog

Now I reveal the Secret Teachings of Jesus:

25:13 Thou shalt celebrate my birthday by spending half your nest egg on a ton of garbage for your kids, friends and other family members, to the point of requiring an additional mortgage
05:57 Blessed is he who adorns his house and lawn with a multitude of christmas decorations, and overcometh his neighbors in sheer quantity of decorations, rivaling the light output of a baseball stadium at night
12:32 He that overcometh, and loves me shall view every christmas tv special, especially those on the fox network
32:02 For he who that keepeth my commandments, shall each chop down a large coniferous tree, encouraging everyone else to do so as well, sparing not the forest, and shall throw a small fortune into its decoration
11:45 And thou shalt put a plate of cookies and a glass of milk upon thy mantle for my servant, Claus. But greater still is he who includes a shot of jagermeister
19:13 For he show proof of his blessing, who shows off presents recieved on my birthday, especially if his presents are larger or more expensive than thy neighbors
48:09 I say, Lo, For he is wise who drinketh on my birthday until he get drunketh, and spareth not his family with the rod or broken whiskey bottle

4/28/2006 2:38:28 PM
#31346
Talisman

\"others shouldn't be given this day of worship, it doesn't make sense\"

If that's your feeling about it then how about if I start my own religion and co-opt all of your holy days as my own and then, to add a little more insult, bitch and complain that *you're* using *my* religious holy days?

You fundies either don't know your own religion's history, which I suspect, or you just like to bitch and moan.

4/28/2006 2:38:30 PM
#31349
awhell

Speaking of not making sense....

4/28/2006 2:47:44 PM
#31352
Papabear

I don't think Johnny has any idea how many of his favorite Xian traditions were ripped off from pagan societies.

Yule log
Wreaths
Mistletoe
Holly
Xmas trees
Easter bunny
Easter eggs
the timing of Xmas and Easter
the name Easter

Just off the top of my head.


I believe modern medicine should be reserved only for people who believe in evolution and renounce faith having a role in healing. It just makes sense.

4/28/2006 3:22:39 PM
#31356
JustinGG

Well you force us to take the day off anyway, we might as well do something with it.

4/28/2006 3:27:26 PM
#31362
NonHomogenized

You know what doesn't make sense? Pig ignorant asshats like yourself who are so ill-informed that they don't even realize that their \"one true religion\" stole all of of its holidays, most of its rituals, many of its beliefs, nearly all of its myths, and almost every last one of its figures, from other religions. And what makes even less sense than that is that said pig ignorant individuals then bitch about members of other religions having holidays on the same day!
How the fuck do you continue to breathe?

4/28/2006 3:34:03 PM
#31378
Bob_Zimmerman

\"I just hope that this year, instead of getting caught up in the commercialism of the season, we can all remember what it's about. Family, love, and the hope that for just one night a year, the world can sleep in heavenly peace and wake up to a flaming Christmas tree, bull testicles, shoe fruit, and a terrifying black elf. Just as Jesus intended.\"

4/28/2006 4:28:39 PM
#31415
Smeagol

Tell you what, you guys KEEP Easter and Christmas, we get the REST of the days of the year. Sound good?

4/28/2006 7:14:17 PM
#31430
David D.G.

\"Others shouldn't be GIVEN this day of worship\"? Who the heck GIVES holidays? They are merely claimed! And in this case, the Christians assimilated them, Borg-style, as their religion overtook the various regions in which these festivals were practiced, so if anyone should give up or reschedule major holidays, it's Christianity.

Historical Revisionist Award? Maybe not a finalist, but surely a worthy nominee at least.


~David D.G.

4/28/2006 7:47:33 PM
#31475
kmisho

Come on now! We all deserve a few days off from work. I see no reason to avoid piggybacking on the hollow and pointless rituals of some religion to achieve that end!

4/29/2006 2:57:54 AM
#1089211
Kilted_Kaboodle

Shut the fuck up fat-man, these are my holidays. Go beat your children senseless some other time

1/6/2010 8:59:16 AM
#1335975
Apatheist

That's just company policy, not govt. policy. As a matter of fact, you aren't guaranteed any days off.

9/27/2011 7:43:39 PM
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