Unbelievers: Do you participate in Easter? Christmas?

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?

This is your initial post. The pronoun "we" does not appear anywhere in that post.

Take your blinders off! Re-read my posts and try to do it without prejudice! For you to tell me what my intent was - is pretentious, arrogant and wrong! Nothing less.

baddog1 wrote:

maporsche wrote:

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?

OK class - let's look up the definition of "condescending"!
Merriam Webster: to assume an air of superiority
Now class - re-read the post from maporsche and see if the definition applies!!! :wink:

Thanks for the additional lessons-by-example in hypocrisy, assumption and vile name-calling maporsche.

Oh yes - one more thought! Which of my statements above - is the most condescending? Oh, that's right class - BD1 did not post any statements - but asked questions.

Now (and very much unlike you) - I will answer your questions.

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How many evergreen trees are there in Bethlehem?

Not sure - haven't been. Hope to be able to go one day though - God willing! I would assume that the evergreen is of symbolic nature such as most items related to holidays.

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How much CASH would Jesus spend on his buddies?

Again - not sure. How much cash was his life worth?

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

As I have no idea what a PS3 is - I cannot answer that ma.

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Tell me please, what would Jesus want for Christmas?

In my estimation - Jesus would want peace.

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

I very seriously doubt that you have any idea how I celebrate Christmas! Nor would you probably believe me.

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

:wink: :wink: :wink:

There is nothing for me to answer in this post. You called me some names, answered some of my questions (sort of).

What would you like a response to?

How about you respond as to whether or not your consider it hypocritical of Christians who celebrate Jesus' birthday, buy buying presents instead of helping charity. Who spend billions of dollars on themselves and their families, but give nothing (or if anything, MUCH less) to the poor.

I wonder who on this board, or in this nation, celebrates Christmas in the way that one could assume Jesus would. You estimate that Jesus would want peace, so I can assume that Jesus would want Christians to promote peace as a way to celebrate his birthday. Maybe you've done a great job of promoting peace (however, if your actions are as self-righteous as this post has been, I can assume you haven't been effective), but I know plenty of Christians who are more worried about out-spending their spouse than they are about promoting peace.

There is nothing for me to answer in this post. You called me some names, answered some of my questions (sort of).

I have not only read your posts, i have quoted them. The latest bit of hilarity which you have attempted to foist on us is that you claimed that "we" are hypocrites.

I've quoted your initial post, the thesis which you wished to discuss in this thread. The pronoun "we" does not appear in that post. The pronoun you have used in that post is "you." Your obvious intent was to call on people to prove that they are not hypocrites. It is assumed in your thesis. Once again, you have begged the question.

Oh yeah, i've read a lot of your posts . . .

Did you ever see a dog chase it's tail?????

baddog1 wrote:

Did you ever see a dog chase it's tail?????

By the evidence so far presented, one may conclude only that such would be an excersize of sufficient fascination to you as to compell your emulation of same.

timberlandko wrote:

baddog1 wrote:

Did you ever see a dog chase it's tail?????

By the evidence so far presented, one may conclude only that such would be an excersize of sufficient fascination to you as to compell your emulation of same.

It may or not be important to note that Timber was once an officer in the USMC; I have forgiven him but all others may not.

I will not attempt to correct his spelling of exercise and compel ..

timberlandko wrote:

baddog1 wrote:

Did you ever see a dog chase it's tail?????

By the evidence so far presented, one may conclude only that such would be an excersize of sufficient fascination to you as to compell your emulation of same.

It may or not be important to note that Timber was once an officer in the USMC; I have forgiven him but all others may not.

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?

Hey this weekend I was made aware (in conversations with my brother) of a book entitled Caesar's Messiah. Has anyone here heard of it or read it? Author Paul Williams, ISBN 9781569754573

We got a copy. It is about the theory that the Gospels were written by the Romans, 200-300 years after the birth of Christ, in order to pacify and control the Jews. In other words, that Christianity was made up by them for political reasons.

Holy sh*t!

Plenty of food for thought- a rollicking good holiday read?

http://www.caesarsmessiah.com/summary.html

McTag wrote:

Plenty of food for thought- a rollicking good holiday read?

http://www.caesarsmessiah.com/summary.html

I wonder if this book will be as objective as; "Atheist Universe", and the second edition of Atheist Universe subtitled: "The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism") - all three by Ulysses Press? :wink:

...it is the selfishness of the theist that demands the time to celebrate the fantasy. As an athiest, I'm only too happy to share the spoils of the lunacy. We deserve it just for putting up with the fruitcakes.