Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
Yeah...wait, no it isn't.
Niska: Mr. Reynolds? You died, Mr. Reynolds. Mal: Seemed like the thing to do.
'War Stories'
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Jessica - Dec 07, 2005 7:29:58 am PST #8305 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
brenda m - Dec 07, 2005 7:30:29 am PST #8306 of 10003
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Wonkette had a nice response to the White House xmas card issue:
May we suggest heeding National Council of Churches' Rev. Bob Edgar: "I think it's more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards."
Trudy Booth - Dec 07, 2005 7:31:39 am PST #8307 of 10003
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
By the same token, though, Trudy's example of Columbus Day is a little different. Columbus Day is not, as far as I know, a traditionally gift-giving holiday. So the stores' decision to throw sales that weekend is up to them, and I don't think any consumers care why they're getting 50 to 75% off or whatever.
I phrased that badly. I just mean that stores don't "celebrate" or "acknowledge" ANY holidays, they're just an excuse for sales.
Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
And don't you forget it!
Nora Deirdre - Dec 07, 2005 7:32:30 am PST #8308 of 10003
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
May we suggest heeding National Council of Churches' Rev. Bob Edgar: "I think it's more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards."
RIGHT!?!?!??!????
tommyrot - Dec 07, 2005 7:36:08 am PST #8309 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jesus could be a Special Forces guy who sneaks into insurgent's camps and changes their water to wine, resulting in the insurgent being wasted.
Connie Neil - Dec 07, 2005 7:37:19 am PST #8310 of 10003
brillig
Voldemort?
Damn, beaten to the punch.
Steph L. - Dec 07, 2005 7:40:25 am PST #8311 of 10003
I look more rad than Lutheranism
To equate the importance of Christmas with Hanukkah or Kwanzaa makes absolutely no sense to me.
Wow. And the thing is, the dude who said this? Very likely has NO idea how insulting it is.
Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
If "you people" want to feel a part of "our culture," you should damn well start by buying lots of gifts for us.
But not from Target.
SuziQ - Dec 07, 2005 7:45:10 am PST #8312 of 10003
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I just did my job as a consumer and bought K-Bug an iPod. I was going to go through Amazon, but they are "backordered" and it wouldn't be sent until January. Going through Apple, I get it in a week with free shipping. I'm having "Princess K-Bug Rocks" etched on it (but with her real name, duh).
DebetEsse - Dec 07, 2005 7:45:26 am PST #8313 of 10003
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Well, Christmas is, what, second on the list for Christianity? Maybe third? The thing that's always talked about, IME, is that the reason we know about Hanukkah is that it's around Christmas time, not because it's a big!huge!Jewish!holiday! I can't speak to Kwanzaa as much. That's how I read it, trying to be charitable. It's likely I'm being too charitable.
Jessica - Dec 07, 2005 7:45:37 am PST #8314 of 10003
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Wow. And the thing is, the dude who said this? Very likely has NO idea how insulting it is.
I can't speak for Kwanzaa, but Hannukah is a minor Jewish holiday whose importance has been inflated in America because its enough like Christmas (happens in winter + gifts) to be conflated into the same shopping frenzy. So for me, that was actually the only *non*-insulting thing in there.
Of course, that's in a religous sense. In a commercial sense, Hannukah is WAY more important because we have gifts for 8 days instead of 1.