Unbelievers: Do you participate in Easter? Christmas?

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baddog1 wrote:

To Unbelievers:

If your place of employment offers time off work for Easter - do you partcipate?

How about Christmas?

Do you accept a Christmas bonus (if offered)?

If yes to any of these: Why

If yes - do you consider this to be hypocritical?

Wow, this is why many people cannot stand religion. What a condescending ASS!

Christmas has next to nothing to do with your Christ, and never has. The facts are
1) Christians forced others to accept Christ or BE MURDERED.
2) The Christians stole 12/25 from Pagans so that their religion would gain acceptance
3) Christ tells you to give your possessions to the poor, and you celebrate his birth by spending billions of dollars (this year an estimated $800/person) on worthless crap to give to people you barely like (if you're like most families). You could be buying food for the poor, but that Ipod is so much cooler. How **** selfish.
4) The Christmas tree has nothing to do with Christ. How many evergreen trees are there in Bethlehem?

How much CASH would Jesus spend on his buddies? What day would he have showed up in front of Best Buy for the new PS3?

Tell me please, what would Jesus want for Christmas?

You should be ashamed of yourself for asking this question, and not being able to recognize the hypocrisy that YOU exhibit by celebrating Christmas.

But, I'm sure you won't respond will you?

How many evergreen trees are there in Bethlehem?

How much CASH would Jesus spend on his buddies?

What day would he have showed up in front of Best Buy for the new PS3?

Tell me please, what would Jesus want for Christmas?

You should be ashamed of yourself for asking this question, and not being able to recognize the hypocrisy that YOU exhibit by celebrating Christmas.

But, I'm sure you won't respond will you?

baddog1 wrote:

It always interests me how so many posts propogate to issues unrelated [or very loosely related] to the original question(s). And those doing the propogatin' - typically fail to answer the original questions. Why not start another thread if you have another agenda? :wink:

I thought I was answering the question, in my own roundabout way. I have no religious beliefs of my own, and so no "agenda". But your question was patronising, and exclusive. You have learned by reading these posts, that not only Christians deserve a "Christmas bonus". That's a message of Christmas that needs to get out there.

I forgot to mention mistletoe in my list of borrowed symbols.
But hey, we non-Christians are a forgiving lot. We turn the other cheek. :wink:

My question: Do Christians ever throw coins in a wishing well? If so, do they know why they do that? Doesn't it make them feel like hypocrites?

McTag wrote:

baddog1 wrote:

It always interests me how so many posts propogate to issues unrelated [or very loosely related] to the original question(s). And those doing the propogatin' - typically fail to answer the original questions. Why not start another thread if you have another agenda? :wink:

I thought I was answering the question, in my own roundabout way. I have no religious beliefs of my own, and so no "agenda". But your question was patronising, and exclusive. You have learned by reading these posts, that not only Christians deserve a "Christmas bonus". That's a message of Christmas that needs to get out there.

How was my "question patronising"? Is that an assumption? And what's wrong with "exclusive"?

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I forgot to mention mistletoe in my list of borrowed symbols.
But hey, we non-Christians are a forgiving lot. We turn the other cheek. :wink:

My question: Do Christians ever throw coins in a wishing well? If so, do they know why they do that? Doesn't it make them feel like hypocrites?

Sure.
Because my kids get a kick out of it?
Why should it make me feel hypocritical?

Exclusive", describing your post, meant that you were suggesting non-Christians should be excluded from the benefits of Christmas and Easter.

Which is pretty un-christian when you think about it.

McTag wrote:

Exclusive", describing your post, meant that you were suggesting non-Christians should be excluded from the benefits of Christmas and Easter.

Which is pretty un-christian when you think about it.

LOL! So you've deduced that I'm suggesting non-Christians should be excluded from the benefits of Christmas and Easter? Pretty arrogant there mctag - and also very wrong!

If you have a question for me - then ask it. Otherwise don't assume - you're not very good at it! :wink:

baddog1 wrote:

McTag wrote:

Exclusive", describing your post, meant that you were suggesting non-Christians should be excluded from the benefits of Christmas and Easter.

Which is pretty un-christian when you think about it.

LOL! So you've deduced that I'm suggesting non-Christians should be excluded from the benefits of Christmas and Easter? Pretty arrogant there mctag - and also very wrong!

If you have a question for me - then ask it. Otherwise don't assume - you're not very good at it! :wink:

So what other assumption is possible from your first post?

Do not lie. Go thou, and sin no more.

Ah, the reeking stench of christian love.

Judge not, Bubba . . .

What a hodge-podge of amazing, self-deluding claptrap. Remember, that you addressed your silly questions to "Unbelievers", which makes a nonsense of what you have just written.

No-one will be taken in. I'm not. But I'm not surprised either. I've met hypocritical Christians before, sadly.

You are calling people hypocrites because they accept society as they find it, and get on with life. You have just recently claimed in a post that people who are not "people of faith" are hypocritical for accepting the "benefits" of days off or bonuses. As has already been pointed out to you, businesses are closed on days which are considered sabbaths or holy days, so they couldn't work if they were so inclined. The bonuses you referred to are seen, quite reasonably, as annual performance bonuses. If people subscribe to different faiths, or to no faith at all, you are indulging a hateful fantasy to suggest that they should honor a faith different to their own, or any faith if they don't subscribe to the notion of faith.

But you want to call people hypocrites--judge not, Bubba . . .

"...businesses are closed on days which are considered sabbaths or holy days, so they couldn't work if they were so inclined. The bonuses you referred to are seen, quite reasonably, as annual performance bonuses..."