if you don’t go to church year round, but celebrate christmas your just showing people how selfish and greedy you are…only in it for the gifts. not the birth of the sun. if it was about family you’d celebrate this holiday weekly…or do you? we need to remove gifts from x-mas, and just be this nice year round and burn the church. X-mas isn’t an excuse to be an over-consumer even though we use it as one.
—ME
This article appears in Dec 3-9, 2009.
I celebrate Christmas because it’s a wonderful excuse to get together with my family (large extended family who live all over canada). We buy each other fairly modest gifts, because sometimes it’s nice to do things for other people. I much prefer the giving of presents over the getting.
Stop trying to shit all over everyone else’s good time and do whatever the hell you want.
Heh, birth of the sun. While it should have been written as SON, it’s an interesting slip as the story of Christ is very similar to many creation myths in other middle east cultures.
Fuck off.
I’ll be a greedy son of a bitch and love getting my presents when I bloody well want to.
Man, if they had weekly meetings discussing the birth of the Sun i’d certainly skip church to attend.
Birth of the sun?
Yeah, I should scrap my family’s holiday traditions cos some douche thinks consumerism is bad and I should be having family reunions every week. Christmas isn’t just for people who go to church. Wasn’t Santa invented by coca-cola? I take mine with rum.
Well I have often said that if the criteria for god is he is directly responsible for life on this planet… & without god we’d all die. Then the Sun is the logical choice.
IF you are a Sun worshipper & anyone wants to know if you have proof of your god’s existence… all you gotta do is point upwards in the daytime…or say he’ll be rising in so many hours if its night ~;)
Fuck off!! Yeah, we’re all so selfish and greedy wanting to spend all of our hard-earned money on buying gifts for our friends and family instead of ourselves, for once! How many people fucking go out and shop for themselves during the time leading up to the holidays? Not that fucking many- most of us splurge out on our loved ones and wait for the January sales to shop for ourselves.
…that is, if there’s any money left!
whoever posted this is a fucking MORON
You guys didn’t get the Star Trek reference? From the episode “Bread and Circuses”.
I remember that episode, but I doubt the OP does. If so…it was too subtle.
as a non christian i’d like to give you a hearty fuck off. other belief systems have holidays at the same time of year that also involve the giving of gifts. perhaps you should look into that you narrow minded shitface
Maybe you should ask for some spelling lessons for xmas, OP.
And who are you to pass judgement on others? You don’t like Christmas don’t celebrate. Stay home in a little corner by yourself and eat alone. With your attitude I am not sure how you could keep company
*tells family to fuck off and burns their christmas tree because as an atheist I’m obligated to hate everything remotely christian*
Happy now you fuck?
I would love to have a holiday for the birth of the “sun”
maybe the moon too
and maybe after we could get a good look at Uranus see what’s really clog’in ya up
“”Birth of the sun?””
I think this was a clever pun by the OP…one can hope?
In fact, celebrated on (or just after) the winter solstice, that’s exactly what was being done thousands of years before the Jesus myth (or Horus, or Dionysius etc who were also “born” around Dec. 25th).
I find having EVERYTHING closed is a pain in the arse…thank Zeus for the Chinese markets in Vancouver, and the local bootlegger…
Birth of the sun would actually indicate Scientology…right?
Ancient India was once considered to be the land where the sun was born.
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“Birth of the sun” i.e. the days finally start to get longer after the winter solstice around the 21st…after having been “dying” since the autumnal equiniox…in the northern hemisphere anyway
Birth of the sun:
http://www.hol.com/~mikesch/xmas.htm
according to the birth legend,jesus was born in a manger,with baby animals around him.therefore that month would have to be either april or may,hence the baby animals.and yes,taking into consideration the time difference and equator difference,it still comes out aout the same,give or take a couple days.so,christ was born in may,why is christmas in decenber then?makes for interesting reading that book.it flipflops every second or third page,to highlight another,eqally insane subject,like how old they were when they finally croaked.900 plus years,guess there was no polution back then.