FAC=Freak Ass Church

...if this is how the fundies feel around Halloween?

The manager at one of my favorite thrift stores, Mission Ministries, is not down with Halloween nor its merchandise - store policy is to throw it away because of the satanist connection.

So I stood there with my Marge Simpson blue hair stammering, well, not the way I celebrate it... it takes so long to grow all those pumpkins, it's like service to others... nope. He wasn't happy with it at all.

And I've always thought I myself celebrated Christmas in a capitalistic, materialistic American sort of way without really concerning myself over the spiritual aspect.

I like Christmas. Pretty trees, lots of food and presents, shiny lights. My family gathers to eat and exchange gifts and sing carols badly and have fun. We're atheists. For us it isn't religious, and I wouldn't put up a nativity set or send out holiday cards with religious messages on them any more than I would put up a menorah on Hannuka

That's my family, except we're not atheists. But otherwise, that's totally us. Socializing, food, presents, tinsel! That's what the winter holidays are to me.

FAC=Freak Ass Church

Ha! I thought it was something more official.

The manager at one of my favorite thrift stores, Mission Ministries, is not down with Halloween nor its merchandise - store policy is to throw it away because of the satanist connection.

That drives me CRAZY. Me, I'd never shop there nor donate anything to them again.

Me, I'd never shop there nor donate anything to them again.

I scheduled the Salvation Army to come pick up our old couch, and then about an hour later remembered that I'm displeased with them because of their less-than-charitable ways.

However, I am a hypocrite, because I didn't cancel. I need the couch to be gone so the new one can come in.

If that were how it was actually framed/celebrated, that'd be another story.

Indeed so. Plus, still religious, just a different religion.

Damn, your FAC was freakier than my FAC.

And we couldn't profit from it! The circuses are up to a three-head minimum!

I think my FAC was doctrinally freakier, but yours has the edge on interpersonal relationships. (Though if you go back a few decades, that could even out.)

FAC=Freak Ass Church

I prefer Freak-Arse Church, myself. Details, details.

However, I am a hypocrite, because I didn't cancel. I need the couch to be gone so the new one can come in.

Someone in need will benefit from your giving the SalArm your couch. That's what you should concentrate on.

I prefer Freak-Arse Church, myself.

Next you'll be telling us you support the People's Front of Judea.

Christmas is Christian. The Christians ganked a shitload of stuff from pagans and Mithraites, but it's Christian.

My holiday cards are blue and have owls on them. My boyfriend's son is half-Jewish, and BF is an atheist and I am agnostic. I like the season, but attach no real meaning to it; I have a lot of sense-memory attached to it, because I grew up nominally Christian in the American midwest.

My family doesn't go to church -- mom is Christian, dad hates god, and retail work has sucked away my sister's holiday soul.

Basically, the holiday season mean this: food. Christmas, to me, is baking ham, pumpkin and cinnamon in cookies, wood smoke, my mom's fudge. The sharp cold night air. The smell of coffee and cinnamon rolls early on December 25th.

I am excited to have a 7 year old around for the holidays this year. He gets Hannukah and Xmas, and I think holidays are more exciting when you can view them a little through the lens of childhood. My most vivid memories of Christmas in childhood don't revolve around religion, but around tracking Rudolph, stretching up to ring the mistletoe winchime in the arch leading from my grandmother's living room to the dining room and tiptoeing around with my sister at 5 a.m. on Xmas morning, making large cups of coffee for my parents and sharing a blanket on the couch and watching our Scottie dog race around in the pile of wrapping paper.

Laughed out loud. Sorry if the irreverence offends anyone.

Monster Nativity

This artist seems to like it when Batman kisses Robin, and the moonbathing vampire? Keen.