Members of a church in Kansas City, Ks., are protesting the secularization of Christmas by dressing like Jesus at their jobs, malls and restaurants.Pastor Kelly Lohrke advised parishioners of the Praise Chapel Christian Fellowship to wear at minimum a crown of thorns and a sash or robe during the week leading up to Christmas.”A lot of businesses and people are saying that they have to say, ‘Happy Holidays’ and ‘SeasonÂ’s Greetings,’” church receptionist Chelsea Johnston told FOXNews.com. “TheyÂ’re not allowed to say ‘Merry Christmas.’ It makes us upset because that is the holiday and it goes against our freedom of speech.”The 600-member church posted videos on YouTube of congregants wearing Christ-like garb in public — which they say has led other churches across the country to consider similar demonstrations.
OK Folks one more time: Christmas is secularizing BECAUSE it was made a national holiday. This is ONLY happening to Christmas because it is the ONLY religious holiday that has been nationalized — e.g, made mandatory for all Americans. I cannot get my mail, or do my business on Christmas, but I certainly can on Passover or Ramadan. When you make unbelievers comply by force, they will comply the way they can without changing their views, and that’s why Santa is more important than Jesus this time of year. The only solution is to deal with it. It’s too late to change.It’s not rocket science.But it’s OK, because it’s not JUST Christmas anyway. Check out our new Christmas page, and don’t forget to read about other gods whose birthday was December 25. AND — check out that new quote generator!AND — Stay tuned for a new guest announcement for the convention (just trust me — book your tickets now).
Championed by Christians, overpopulation is irresponsible and self-indulgent and is snowballing the effects of our bad habits exponentially. But we are also at the intersection of advanced physics and moral primitivism. We’re living with messianic ideology and apocalyptic weaponry. That’s why the freethinkers of the world are making all this noise. We’re fighting for the very survival of our species.
hey neowolfe you got me all jeeped up.
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The most accurate catholic mass offertory procession intelligence may take a bit of time to stumble on.
Tuen,
The issue of text being bigger than the comment box, I bitched to Dave on a different thread a couple of weeks ago, and now it’s working perfect. The problem with the preview is that you cant make correction in the preview box, and if you make a correction in the comment box it goes right back to a quarter of your comment out of sight, so you have to preview again for the next correction. Pain in the ass!! Dave did something to fix it for me, maybe he didn’t realize it was site wide.
Anyway, didn’t mean to get you all “jeeped up” but it’s hard to talk to people when they’re asleep. Nice post, by the way.
NeoWolfe
NeoWolfe,
Your overview is exactly what I’ve noticed except my text still travels beyond the value field. No biggie though, I can deal with it now. Having built HTML form fields, I still suspect it’s a numerical parameter issue but cannot deny the possibility of quirks within my own system.
Anyway, I am both humbled and inspired by many of the excellent thinkers on this blog (including yourself). It’s unprecedented how we transcend our immediate world and communicate worldwide with people we may never know outside of cyberspace. Through both cordiality and contention we productively examine issues and in so ultimately contribute to the well-being of humanity by enlightening all our brothers and sisters to the fruits of knowledge and the folly of religious dogma. The blogoshere is one giant leap for humankind.
In Safari, at least, to see the whole post as you enter it, drag down the lower right corner of the text box until it is big enough.
I just checked with Firefox and it doesn’t seem to allow this.
This test’s for Word apostrophes.
Human overpopulation is indeed the biggest threat to life on the planet.
How ironic that what once was a strategy to maximise the success of an ancient tribe and its priest-kings through fecundity is now working against our survival.
All because they were amongst the first to use written words to pass on their memes with a much slower rate of mutation.
US Catholics, with their birth rate close to that of the rest of the country, seem to be ignoring their leadership’s efforts to expand the tithing base. Not so, elsewhere in the world.
Religious efforts to limit contraceptive instruction and use are adding to the problem, especially for the poor. I could make the case that it is a Crime against Humanity.
Dropout, to quote you:
“Religious efforts to limit contraceptive instruction and use are adding to the problem, especially for the poor. I could make the case that it is a Crime against Humanity.”
Yes, you very well could. Until I inevitably piss you off, welcome to those who possess clarity of vision to see outside the box. Nice post.
NeoWolfe
DD Dropout,
Following up on one of your thought-provoking points, I submit this quote:
Falsifying the claim chronically offered by theists that only religious societies can be socially successful, “Christian America” in fact scores as the most dysfunctional nation in the first world.
Gregory S. Paul – Free Inquiry magazine (Dec 2008-Jan 2009)