It might be called Christmas but it has been usurped
just as it usurped the pagan winter festivals before it. By your logic, we shouldn't have Father Christmas, presents, trees, decorations, cake, or a fucking great big meal. All of everything that you associate with Christmas aside from the Nativity has fuck all to do with Christianity.

And that, my colonial compadre, is what we call an owning.
( Kroney, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:29, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

no, I think those that don't believe shouldn't have those things
we have them because of those men in the desert in robes that brought baby jesus gifts and rum pum pum pum
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:31, Reply)

They're not even mentioned in the Bible
They're stories and symbols that have been incorporated since the the idea of the modern Christmas evolved at some point in the 19th Century.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:33, Reply)

I think their main point was to show that Jesus' teachings were for everyone, not just Jews, too.
Which, really, just serves to suggest that the early interpretations of the Jesus story were that religion is unimportant. It's what you do in life that counts.
Another thing well worth celebrating.
(The Personality Horse www.tinyurl.com/perhor, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 11:15, Reply)

I don't believe in Jesus or God
and so I don't go to church for Christ's mass. Sorry, K, but with respect, you're wrong.
( Kroney, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:33, Reply)

I don't think so.
I can say that each of us believe what we believe, I'm just drumming up an argument because it's 5am here and I'm bored.
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:34, Reply)

I am aware of the irony in presenting these arguments
whilst my username is the way it is.
( Kroney, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:36, Reply)

so NER
*flicks nose*
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:36, Reply)

Yeah? Well you
smell of POO
( Kroney, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:38, Reply)

nah I had a nice lush baaaffff earlier this eve

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:38, Reply)

Myrrh is used for embalming
Strange pressie for a new-born I always thought.
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:39, Reply)

And Frankincense fucking HONKS

( Kroney, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:43, Reply)

No wonder, it's made from dead body parts.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:47, Reply)

Those kings or wise men or whatever the fuck they were supposed to be really hated that kid
I expect the gold they gave him had been specially sneezed on by somebody in the grips of end stage smallpox.
( Kroney, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:56, Reply)

don't backpedal godsquad, we all know your a prick

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:34, Reply)

ooh burn

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:36, Reply)

i'm going to masterbate my anus with a crucifix
then i'll highfive santa at the mall and get myself a kinect for xmas
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:37, Reply)

why not try asking for a life instead?

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:38, Reply)

asking for a taking your
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:40, Reply)

*shakes hands*
and with that ladies and gents, I'm off.
If I don't see you before I hope you all have a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY, a fucking drunk ass new year and many many lumps of coal.
xxxxx
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:42, Reply)

And you, K
Enjoy!
( Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:43, Reply)

i hope you get killed by jews

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:44, Reply)

because who would i ask for that?
a non-existent deity? thats hardly likely to prove fruitful
(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:41, Reply)

Would we still have polar bears drinking coke on their ice floes?

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:33, Reply)

Polar bears drink Cresta not Coke.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:36, Reply)

you idiot, have you not seen the ad?

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:36, Reply)

Ha! If you were really a grown up you'd know what he's talking about.

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:39, Reply)

you just called yourself old

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:40, Reply)

Did I? I thought I called myself a grown up.
But I am old anyway. Everyone knows this.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:43, Reply)

yeah, old like the story of jesus, which is being moved into a care home to rot and die where it should be

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:43, Reply)

Have you not seen the ad?
www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Adverts/Question322363.html
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:41, Reply)

i don't understand

(Quintno EXPERIMENT RUINED CANCELLED, LEFT 4EVER, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:43, Reply)

Before your time, Never mind.

( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:53, Reply)

Polar bears eat their own young
I don't think we should take their preference in beverages too seriously.
( Kroney, Fri 23 Dec 2011, 10:39, Reply)