Christmas and Political Correctness

Dzhugashvili said:
faith needs not ceremony or idol to validate a personal believe in god.
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Would you mind if I had this made in to a bumper sticker?

Veronica Mars said:
Omg you and me both! i just just juuuust got this explained to me however, its like a symbol of eternal life because its an evergreen or something... still a little shakey on how that fits into Christian Symbolism but yeah.
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The tree itself (an evergreen, usually) is a pagan symbol of life, figuring in pagan celebrations of Yule, or the winter solstice. Christians subjugated the pagan symbolism in their efforts to eradicate paganism and bring the practitioners under Christian rule and to the worship of Christ. That's where the Christmas tree comes from.
 
Miffed67 said:
Would you mind if I had this made in to a bumper sticker?
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Only if you see the genius behind it, ignoring the train wreck of errors in my last post, or if you are mocking me.

I'd have this made as a bumper sticker.

'I talk to God, he endorses LSD use'.
 
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I'll correct the grammatical errors, no worries! Merry Christmas to you, too, my dear!
nerd4hire
nerd4hire
I know the guy who owns the one true Kastanza pole. He bought it on Ebay. (Would I lie to you ;) )
I read this in today's paper and this pretty well sums up Christmas political correctness to me.

A CHRISTMAS DURING WARTIME

Regarding the flap over the Christmas tree in the Toronto court house:

I was a teenager in wartime Halifax, Nova Scotia, which was in a real war zone.
Sometimes you could hear the explosions of ships being attacked off the harbour entrance by German U-Boats.
Christmas was very special in Halifax, filled to the brim with soldiers, sailors and airmen plus the ships.
There were hundreds of merchant ships in Bedford Basin waiting to embark as convoys.
Each ship without exception carried a Christmas tree on its mainmast, some flaunted Christmas lights.
The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) a major participant in the Battle of the Atlantic had all fighting ships decorated with Christmas trees on their mainmasts, and most revived the prewar practice, (which they still do) of decorating their ships with coloured lights (even in the cloistered Port of Halifax).
There were many Christmas parties, many visiting military were invited to homes throughout the Old City for Christmas dinner -- a dinner made from scarce rationed foodstuffs. Oranges and bananas had long before disappeared. Sugar and butter and eggs were rationed.
The various Halifax movie theatres ran 24 hours per day, but it must have been a very lonely city for many of the young men and women who were far from home. Many had to go to sea on their fighting ships to pursue elusive and deadly U-Boats.
An RCN Corvette in fact was lost with all hands on Christmas day off Halifax.
Political correctness in wartime Halifax meant winning the war -- no one would ever even think to complain about "Christmas trees."
 
While I am a religious Christian and all that, I've come to the conclusion that Christmas is not truly a Christian holiday in the first place. I mean, it makes more sense that Jesus was born in the spring, anyway, and what we know of as Christmas is more rooted in paganism anyway, and it's even in December because of pagans. (I don't really care about that, I'm not one of those people who think ancient pagans were evil or anything.) And the holiday is supposed to be about God, and love, and family, and all that, but...it's not.

Anyway, I think political correctness is basically evil, it serves no purpose whatsoever. And having people say "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Christmas" is ridiculous, and whoever thought that up should be shot. And all these people who like to get offended over such unimportant things should stop being douchebags and get over it.
 
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