Pope is surprise winner in annual race to start ATHEISTS ARE RUINING CHRISTMAS tabloid frenzy
As everyone knows, all humanists, atheists and secularists are primarily concerned with destroying Christmas.
From as early as January 12th every year, barely a day goes by when the British Humanist Association isn’t pushing their major campaign: to rename Christmas as “Universal Secular Winterval Light Fest Season (For Humanity)”. Richard Dawkins’ own campaign is to rebrand Christmas as “Evolution Time”, in which beardy Charles Darwin will fly to people’s houses in a sleigh towed by a magical pack of friendly terradactyls. And it’s working, because Christmas is barely mentioned by anyone anymore, nowadays. The PC knuckleheads have got us all running scared that people of non-Christmas religions will deem it OFFENSIVE. They’ve ruined Christmas for everyone, forever.
That’s why it was massively important for the Pope himself to speak out, and reverse the tide of secularism.
This is, seriously, from The Sun:
THE Pope issued an impassioned plea to the people of Britain yesterday – to save CHRISTMAS.
Benedict XVI let rip at the politically correct knuckleheads who deem it offensive to other faiths.
His blast – on Day Two of his historic UK visit – came as he hit out at “those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged.”
The Pontiff told bigwigs who packed Westminster Hall in London that it was a “questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions” or even atheists.
The 83-year-old leader of the world’s one billion Roman Catholics declared: “These are worrying signs of a failure to appreciate not only the rights of believers to freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, but also the legitimate role of religion in the public square.”
He urged his VIP audience to use their “respective spheres of influence” to help turn back a tide that has seen Christmas renamed Winterval.
Continues, and continues, at: http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3143145/Pope-tells-London-Dont-let-PC-brigade-wreck-Christmas.html
Pope is surprise winner in annual race to start ATHEISTS ARE RUINING CHRISTMAS tabloid frenzy,
I am certainly renaming the holiday known as ‘christmas’ ! I sell Years End cards, and Happy End of the Year cards, but never ‘xmas’ or ‘christmas’ cards!
I don’t know what ‘christmas’ means anyway, it’s just non-sense, nothing real about it is there?
I love christmas! You don’t have to be religious to enjoy the xmas tree and the lights and santa clause decorations. I’ll celebrate any festival that brings families and friends together and promotes peace (not to mention food and drink and laughter). I’ve already bought my UNICEF xmas cards to send to my friends and family all of[ver the world to tell them that I count myself lucky to have them as friends/family and that I am thinking of them. I just avoid the religious cards and select winter scenes.
Lets not forget that the christian church piggybacked the birth of Christ on the Roman festival of Sol Invictus (celebrating the return of the sun from those dark winter days), so christians do not have a monopoly on the 25th December or that particular winter festive season.
So stuff the Pope and his concerns, and any other religion that might be offended by the celebration of christmas. They should get a life and join in the fun.
I start getting excited about Christmas straight after Halloween! As someone who grew up in a country where Halloween is a big deal, I find myself regularly biting my tongue when it’s referred to as devil worship here in the UK (twice so far this school year in my presence). Complete nonsense. It’s fantastic fun and *amazingly* none of my friends or anyone I know has switched to the imaginary dark side, as it were.
Oh yes, I love Halloween too! Like Christmas, it’s a great excuse for fun! We celebrate it with the last BBQ of the year (well-wrapped up next to a bonfire). You have to feel really sorry for those who worry it promotes devil-worship. They are probably the same lot that disapprove of Harry Potter. What sad people.
Sounds like good fun Ankhsey!
I have great memories of wearing a home made costume to school and then staying up and out extra late collecting bags of candy. Not to mention a trip to a pumpkin farm and carving a jack-o-lantern. Surely less alarming than buring an effigy of a human being…
It certainly was, Sarah. I remember one Halloween a whole bunch of us kids dressed as plague victims in a huge cart being hauled through the streets by our older siblings. People were so impressed, they threw sweets out to us. Ah, that’s what childhood memories are all about…and look at me now, an atheist!