Christmas is a scam

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

You are all fools!

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[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Hey, we didn't give you a hard time when you were having Hanukah.

 

[Buck 5,000+ posts]

Santa isn't white.

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Hey, we didn't give you a hard time when you were having Hanukah.

I've heard of it but I really dont know what it is.

 

[Slo_Ride 5,000+ posts]

Santa isn't white.

He lives at the North Pole. He's like the most cracker azz niagro ever!

 

[Sleeklsc 5,000+ posts]

Watching all these animals shopping during the holidays has made me sick. I've lost all faith.

 

[bbeljefe]

Christmas is real. You can actually see the decorations, give and receive the gifts and count on it coming year after year.

That which it is based upon, however, is pure fantasy.

 

[Beatin' 10+ year member]

My parents get upset when I tell them where christmas actually came from, which is a Pagan tradition that has been sanitized after Christianity came along.

Origin of Christmas | The history of Christmas and how it began

"How Did Christmas Come to Be Celebrated on December 25?

A. Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period, Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the weeklong celebration. The festival began when Roman authorities chose “an enemy of the Roman people” to represent the “Lord of Misrule.” Each Roman community selected a victim whom they forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week. At the festival’s conclusion, December 25th, Roman authorities believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by brutally murdering this innocent man or woman."

merry christmas, lol

 

[bbeljefe]

That's not actually the origin of the holiday we know as Christmas. Given it's name, it's pretty clear that Christmas is a holiday that's based on Christian mythology and that came much later in human history than the Brumilia and Saturnalia celebrations.

Basically, those and the Christian "Christ's Mass" are based upon the winter solstice and humans have known about and celebrated that time of year for millennia. I would argue, since before recorded history, given some of the cave drawings that have been found across the world.

 

[Beatin' 10+ year member]

That's not actually the origin of the holiday we know as Christmas. Given it's name, it's pretty clear that Christmas is a holiday that's based on Christian mythology and that came much later in human history than the Brumilia and Saturnalia celebrations.
Basically, those and the Christian "Christ's Mass" are based upon the winter solstice and humans have known about and celebrated that time of year for millennia. I would argue, since before recorded history, given some of the cave drawings that have been found across the world.

whichever origin upsets my parents, is where christmas came from. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[SamIam71]

I am going to walmart the day before black friday next year and scope out things in the grocery section that are marked down and discounted. Then return on black friday at the crack of dawn and wait with the idiots for the doors to open. When they do, I will be the one guy running like hell into the grocery isle snatching up 1/2 off meats that will expire tomorrow, 25% off pop-tarts, and anything else with a coupon stuck to it. Once in line at the check out, I will hold a box of corn flakes on top of my head and gleefully smile like a hooker that just passed an HIV test and compare my deals to other shoppers. I live to create uncomfortable moments in life for people, and I think black friday is begging for my attention.

 

[hispls 5,000+ posts]

Basically, those and the Christian "Christ's Mass" are based upon the winter solstice and humans have known about and celebrated that time of year for millennia. I would argue, since before recorded history, given some of the cave drawings that have been found across the world.

All the ancient pagan religions have been sun worship. The true Christian church (the church that Jesus established according to the accounts of his life) has little resemblance to modern "Christianity" which is largely just pagan sun worship based loosely around the New Testament. Catholicism IMO being about the worst offender in just putting a new paint job on the mystery religion of Babylon.

Catholic church is basically just the Roman Empire V2. The Pope is Caesar, the cardinals the praetorian guard. The holidays coincide around their pagan sun worship days, and the pantheon became the "saints".

 

[bbeljefe]

All the ancient pagan religions have been sun worship. The true Christian church (the church that Jesus established according to the accounts of his life) has little resemblance to modern "Christianity" which is largely just pagan sun worship based loosely around the New Testament. Catholicism IMO being about the worst offender in just putting a new paint job on the mystery religion of Babylon.
Catholic church is basically just the Roman Empire V2. The Pope is Caesar, the cardinals the praetorian guard. The holidays coincide around their pagan sun worship days, and the pantheon became the "saints".

No, not all of them and not only sun worship. There are about 10,000 gods on record ranging from monotheistic deities to groups of gods charged with the sun, the rain, the moon, fertility, et al... all within one religion or another.

But in the end, all deities and the cults that grow from their invention are merely constructs of the human unconscious and the fears/bigotries within it. And most importantly, they're an impediment to human progress that needs to become nothing more than an embarrasing part of our deep, dark, sinful past. ;-)

 

[dragnix 5,000+ posts]

That it may be, but I want gifts and my holiday pay

 

[Jes 42 10+ year member]

No, not all of them and not only sun worship. There are about 10,000 gods on record ranging from monotheistic deities to groups of gods charged with the sun, the rain, the moon, fertility, et al... all within one religion or another.
But in the end, all deities and the cults that grow from their invention are merely constructs of the human unconscious and the fears/bigotries within it. And most importantly, they're an impediment to human progress that needs to become nothing more than an embarrasing part of our deep, dark, sinful past. ;-)

Mankind hates to think that this(here and now)might be all there is.