I’m sorry.. I want to make sure I heard that right. So because I’m not Christian, I should feel like an ass for putting up a tree, putting gifts beneath it, giving to charity, eating hot, gooey food and being with my family? Or is calling it ‘Christmas’ what’s eating you? What is it exactly that made you call me, and people like me, “BAD PEOPLE”?
Did it not occur to you that Christmas means a lot to MY FAMILY, FRIENDS and the people i love and that I am sharing this holiday with them because I love them and want to see them happy? That if they were Muslim and celebrated Eid, I’d do the same damn thing? Did it not occur to you that you slamming non-christians for having a christmas is about as stupid as someone slamming you, a non-pagan, for putting up your tree?
And furthermore, you know what? No. Nobody owes you a fucking explanation because it’s none of your business, you nasty, sanctimonious, self-righteous busybody. Why don’t you keep your holidays the way you want to and let the rest of us keep our holidays the way we want to? The world isn’t here to cater to your specific whims. It takes all kinds to make a world.
The next time you want to discuss differences in human culture, why not use those discussions to bring people together instead of drive them apart? People like you are the reason fights start. They are the reason human beings get held back and do not advance. Attitudes of separation are the reason that things like hate, mistrust, racism and war still plague the world. And you call US the bad people because we do not belong to an organization? Shame on you.
So you know what? I WILL hang a stocking and drink eggnog until Aunt Bessie becomes funny. I WILL turn on coloured lights and put out cookies and stuff a turkey and give gifts to good people I love who seriously fucking deserve them and more. I WILL have goodwill toward my fellow man (because, of the two of us, only one lends herself to charity work at this time of year and it’s not you…) and I WILL open gifts and feel happy. I WILL wish others a happy day on the street and i WILL dream of a white christmas and dancing goddamned sugarplums. And the next day? I WILL post videos of my happy holiday all over facebook and you can sit there and eat it. And there is nothing you can do to stop me. THIS Who will keep singing, despite your efforts to steal the holiday. —The Spirit of Christmas Fucking Present
This article appears in Dec 19-25, 2013.
Christmas really has very little to do with religion nowadays in my opinion anyway. Being not raised in a religious household i celebrated christmas until i was 8 or 9 without even truly knowing it was a religious holiday. Enjoy your christmas and ignore people like that
Be glad that this didn’t happen, just in time for that real fake holiday Kwanzaa, which falls on Boxing Day, so I suspect there will not be much love going around as people stomp each other to death to get a fucking big screen TV at the sales.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-25…
Somehow I doubt that case would have made it to court if Ms. Lindsey had mentioned Ritz “Crackers”
And, just to show that P.C. stupidity is a global phenomenon, some pack of clotted tampax in Boston are taking issue with a Christmas tradition that I grew up with:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/norad-santa-t…
Well then, no one had better use words like fag or cocksucker on this board else I become a clotted tampax!
Clotted tampax. So glad I’m gay…
Why do you care about what other people think of your holiday traditions? Laughing in their face is all that is required. However:
“charity work at this time of year”
“Charity work” isn’t a seasonal thing. Being poor doesn’t go away in January.
Being poor doesn’t go away in January, but some people especially volunteer at Christmas because that’s when they have daytime hours available and plan their volunteering as a part of their Christmas holiday. I would love to do more volunteering year-round, but many organizations I am involved in need extra hands to help with the work from 9-5 on a weekday, when I’m working.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA – all this over-the-top commercial bullshit with its 1930s Coca-Cola designed Santa Claus and a questionable virgin birth is all you need to get the suckers to spend, spend, spend! The sentiments you express reflects every cheezy movie Hollywood ever produced on this most insidious of holidays.
I love sitting back and watching the spectacular mindfuck that is Christmas. Cheers!
The instant gratification part of me decided that i should stop reading after the first paragragh. Too boring, too long.
Make the most of Christmas, because, when the Muzzers take over it’s gone baby gone.
Ivan – it took the jury 90 minutes to find those two pieces of shit who killed the British soldier guilty, I hope they let them loose in the general prison population and con justice prevails.
bravo OP! do what you enjoy, do what you enjoy doing, you are not hurting anyone. there is no ‘right way’ there are only countless opinions.
if someone wants to buy stuff, buy stuff. if someone wants to sing carols about angels, bellow it out. if someone wants to eat turkey (or tofu) til they nod off on the sofa, go for it. if someone likes to microwave chinese food and watch zombie movies on dec 25 yippee!
just everyone mind your own fucking business about what other people do that doesn’t affect you, starving people in india or harms animals.
who cares if someone worships a plastic backscratcher while dancing the rhumba and hollering ‘i’m a yankee doodle dandy’. MYOB
Her Majesty’s Prisons are as close to an Islamic Caliphate as there is in Britanniastan right now. Supposedly the Union Jack can’t be flown over them, as the Crusader Cross of St. George is considered “offensive”
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-…
ivan, i don’t think the norad christmas eve tradition is going to be cancelled. tempest in a boston teapot manufactured by media looking for headlines. the guy who heads the boston based kids advertising group said he hadn’t even heard of it til reporters called him asking for his opinion.
i love that norad thing. my kids loved it. we always listened for it on christmas eve.
That, and this…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2_bLEqmBi0
I think Christmas is more cultural than religious these days
Check these fucking loons out
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-25…
Let’s be real here, Christmas is not cultural OR religious these days. Its just greed greed greed. Makes me sick. I hate christmas. I’m not religious and I hate commercialized holidays.
HOWEVER, I don’t ruin it for anyone else by telling them they shouldn’t celebrate.
Uh, why let the opinion of others get you this upset, ob?
Just tell them to piss off and be on your merry way (lolz unintended pun!!!)
Merry Christmas!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvWGGsoXDcU
Frenchie i agree. I remember a few years ago sitting in a sea of humble, meager gifts that I picked out with so much care for people i KNEW were going to spoil me rotten, crying my fool eyes out because I couldn’t do more and it wasn’t enough.
And that was when I got this brilliant idea to actually do right by them.
I wrote short stories for all of them making them crazy, wild superheroes. I illustrated them myself (i have zero illustration skills.) and bound them in cardboard box wrapped in christmas paper.
They were a hit.
Ever since then, I’ve really made an effort to create these special handmade gifts that people actually REALLY DO LIKE. I have more money now than i did all those years ago. But I still try to throw in one or two personalized, one of a kind gifts that remind everybody that I, and not some random asian factory, know them best.
It really means a lot to get a handmade gift. And google has tons of ideas for gift-making that aren’t crappy.
I remember a couple years ago some morons on this site criticizing me for going to christmas dinner at my parents, giving them gifts, going to parties, etc. It’s pretty simple: people like that don’t have friends or family that care about them so they have to drag everyone down.
Just because I’m not religious doesn’t mean I have to be a cartoon version of an atheist and sit in a dark room tearing pages out of a bible. I honestly don’t give a shit about getting presents or eating turkey. It’s just a great time of year for people to get together and I wish I was in Halifax next week.
Christmas is more for family time to me now. I actually hate the tree and decorating part. Buying gifts just drains the money. But my child is young and wouldn’t be fair to take away the tree and decore. Once my kid is old enough I will prob be done with the tree and decore.
And if you decide that after turnkey and presents you want to sit in a dark room and tear pages out of the bible, then that’s still an option!
i think it would be fun to tear pages out of the bible at any time of the year! why wait for christmas?
of course, i would have to get one….
I once had a very religious friend that was SHOCKED that me, an atheist, celebrates Christmas. It’s not about Christ or religion for me; it’s about family and giving.
the boy child is coming home, that’s all i want
Rant I
Telling another person that they can’t do something because it offends you/you don’t like it is stupid and it makes you a dick. Unless they are forcing you to do something or stepping on you in some way. I will say this though, Christmas has changed. It’s not like it was when I was a kid and I’m not talking about getting all doughy-eyed at all the presents or not being able to sleep all night because Santa was coming. Even six or seven years ago I can remember people going out of their way to be nice to other people around the holidays and it was nice to see. Maybe it’s still going on more than I realize and I just don’t see it. Now all we hear about is black friday and how we’d better consume as much as possible because our economy sucks and the world is going to hell. People are pushy and rude because there’s a lot of unrequired stress this time of year. Still, you wait in lines and sit in traffic and spend a lot of money because you CHOOSE to, nobody is forcing you.
RantII
I prefer to think of myself as agnostic. Religious people generally tend to believe in an eternal afterlife and atheists believe that death is the absolute finality but nobody actually knows what happens when you die. Anybody who claims they are certain about A or B is lying. But it is still good for them to believe in whatever they choose so long as those things make them a better individual. I think, personally, that when you die it is just the end of your life, your brain shuts down and you’re gone but how do I know I’m not going to meet god? And how do I know that the god I meet will be a christian god? What if its some god that exists in another dimension? I like the idea of a collective conscious – after all, we do come from the same earth and are made up mostly of water.
If it makes those people who think I shouldn’t celebrate their holiday traditions because I don’t worship their god feel any better, they can rest easy knowing that I don’t. No tree (crazy pagans! lol), no church, hate the songs. However, I do go to a few parties and exchange gifts with close friends/family. And if that actually bugs you then I am going to do it extra hard next time.
RantIII
People are douchey these days.
stellar ranting âś”
I says to Mavis I says
runswithscissors – that is awesome!!!
I love it.