Sometimes I write at great lengths, but today I will just serve up what others have already done so well.
Rep. Henry Brown of South Carolina and 74 Republican co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives actually wants Congress to pass a resolution condemning people for saying “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas.”
The religious meaning of Christmas is serious to Brown. In an explanation of his resolution to the Christian Broadcast Network, Brown noted that, “we’re in a troubled world,” so “we can’t lose sight of our deep faith by some how or another diminishing the value of Christmas.”
The main threat to Christmas, Brown contents, is the use of the term “happy holidays” rather than an emphasis on “Christ and Christmas.”
But wait! it’s not enough to be hateful AND ignorant as to the makeup of the country and the history of Christmas (stealing it from other religions). no, it gets better than that!
However, Brown’s 2008 December newsletter wished a “happy holiday” to his constituents for the “holiday season.” Although the newsletter had a link to the White House Christmas tree website, it made no other mention of Christ or Christmas. (Click here for a screenshot)
Remember, It is not the GOP that is our enemy, but rather the corruption-generating machine that runs the GOP – the Religious Right. They have 74 congress-pawns who are willing to stand up and actively put YOU in the back seat for a holiday they stole in the first place. These are very bad people. These are the people we fight, and will continue to fight, until they grow up or are voted out.
Be sure to look these pawns up and tell them how wonderful they are.
Happy New Year!
I disagree. The Party of Jesus is my enemy.
Remember? That is just beyond stupid. The RR is a political tool. Conservative politicians, backed by industry, have for decades been using the RR to make the very wealthy even more wealthy. It is the rich that are using the religious rather than the reverse. Only in their dreams does the religious right call the shots. The RR, in its decades long effort, has never even made any significant headway in their main issue – abortion. Meanwhile the rich have become hideously richer at the expense of the middle class and our entire economy.
You know what? There SHOULD be a religious test before you can be sworn into public office. It should be, “If it came to honoring and protecting the values of your religion, faith, or system of spiritual belief OR honoring and protecting the values of the Constitution, which would you choose?”
Naturally, choosing “Religion” would bar you from office. I’m fine with people voting on their faith, but when you swear an oath to upload the U.S. Constitution and then place your bible over top of it, you deserve to be impeached. I’m sick and tired of the religious right acting like they speak from a position of fiscal conservatism when they clearly don’t and only have the agenda of turning America into a theocracy.
does the constitution state no religious test….the problem is that the religiously stupid do not abide by the constitution…..they do not understand that it is unconstitutional for them to bring their dumb beliefs into the public square or in this case into our national legislature….they will only understand this when someone with an equally dumber, but slightly different belief is introduced….then they will loudly cite the first amendment….
get out of my governing stupid religion
It is because of these people that I keep saying that it takes more then simply challenging Christians right to enforce their religious beliefs through secular law. They must be challenged upon the very foundation of their beliefs. They claim that the infallible truths of the bible grants them the righteousness to impose their beliefs upon others and it is these infallible truths that must be challenged and invalidated.
I still think that having people standing on street corners and burning or shredding bibles would be a good first step. Bill boards saying (The Bible invalidates itself) or (The Bible contradicts itself) would be a good first step as well.
I think it’d work best if you got some people who deconverted for pics and have the caption quote them saying, “I was Christian until I read my Bible” XD
HEY! The Previous Thread/Next Thread links are gone.
I think that oversized blue bar at the top of the screen is covering them up.
Oh. They just showed up again.
Never mind.
The New Year hits the Greenwich Meridian in ab. 45 minutes…
Fröhliches Neujahr!
And in all those other languages over there, too.
We are not alone. There are more nut cases in the world.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8435975.stm
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Did my last comment go thru?
All right Dave! Way to go misrepresenting not one, but two points… First, Brown’s resolution isn’t “hateful” he’s simply trying to protect Christians’ First Amendment right:
Second, Christians didn’t “steal” the event of Christ’s birthday from other religions—after all, how central is Jesus Christ–and in particular–his birthday, to any other religion?
You do yourself no favor making such silly assertions and blatant misrepresentations of the truth.
To jcc: Yes,Christmas was stolen from Pagan culture,in FACT,the whole concept of “God” and the Christian religion was all stolen from Pagan culture(very well documented facts). At the time,Roman emperor Constantine converted to christianity,he declared the birth of Jesus to be celebrated on Dec.25th,to coincide with the birth of about 4 other Pagan gods that were being celebrated on Dec.25(declared by previous Roman emporor). Absolutly EVERYTHING about “Christmas” originated in Pagan roots(all very well documented FACTS). In fact, the Puritans outlawed the celebration of Christmas when they came to this country,because they knew of it’s origin.
The 74 co-sponsors obviously have no knowledge of the history about the December Solstice celebration, and Christianity’s theft of the date for it’s “holy” day. If their knowledge is lacking there, where else might their knowledge be lacking. They have no business in government.
and you obviously have no knowledge of the wording of the resolution…
Nicely parroted.
It’s clearly not a matter of them lacking knowledge…
I had hoped Jcc would have made a resolution not to sound so stupid on this site. I guess he/she is going to carry on as last year. After this response, this year I am going to cease responding to his/her childishness.
P.S. Every time I check into this site it seems further and further degraded. What next?!
They’ll find something else unbroken to “fix”.
To JCC
I believe you are missing the obvious point. These 74 Christian bigots who follow the teachings of an invalidated holy book, which the false priesthoods claim falsely gives them divine right, and a church who’s history proves beyond a doubt has no claim to divine guidance wishes to have their false God acknowledged above all other religious beliefs at this time of year.
It is a simple thing to understand and comprehend when one has not been brain washed their entire lives to the point of becoming brain dead. Your Bible Lies, Your Priesthoods Lie, Your entire religious doctrine is founded upon and built upon these lies. So not one of your false beliefs should be recognized by a secular government.
Question I have a American Atheist drop down banner that blocks the top 3 inches or so of my screen going to the left for 2/3 rds of the screen. Anyone know of anyway of getting ride of it. It is a drop down banner not part of the site?
Pray.
there was a little white up arrow in the bottom right hand side of the banner. I clicked it and the banner went up. Hope that helps.
To Ladyrebecc
Thanks but no go, the only thing in the bottom right hand corner of my banner is a thought bubble for contacting them.
Even when you remove the religious influence from the GOP they are still a bunch of greedy jerkoffs who find a way to collapse the economy every time they get into a position power.
Even after this whole banking deregulation crisis, there are still plenty of people who refuse to blame Reagan for giving the banks too much freedom, as well as those who say even less regulations would solve the problem.
*position of power
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There’s the resolution. It is an exercise in stupidity. Resolving against an imagined threat is just silly.