Skipping Christmas
December 14, 2007 by Dizzy Dezzi · 7 Comments
I declared a war on Christmas about 17 years ago.
Well, not exactly a “war” in the Bill’o sense. But a war in the sense of I had to boycott the “trappings” of the holiday.
Despite being an atheist, I actually love Christmas music. I like seeing the lights and trees. Hey, I even love the sales. What I can’t stand is the stress.
As a kid, Christmas decorating seemed to come off without a hitch, but that was because we had a pre-fab tree and very little decorations. There always seemed to be tons of things under the tree. As a child, I couldn’t know all the trouble that my parents went to to make Christmas so great.
But, as a single mother, I learned just how stressful the holidays could be. The idea of decorating the tree was exciting and even fun, once I got started. The idea of taking it down was daunting. Forget shopping for presents. When you are on a fixed income, it’s difficult to provide a kid with loads of gifts, like what they might see at their friends’ homes or even on television.
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December 4, 2007 by PraetorOne · 3 Comments
From the Coalition Press
By Praetorone and BibleBelted
WASHINGTON DC–In yet another attempt to both anger and polarize the American people along theo-political lines, former Right Wing Propagandist, Bill O’Reilly, in yet another attempt to “protect the Baby Jesus,” unveiled what the GOP calls the American Christmas Protection Act.
According to O’Reilly. the measure “has become necessary to keep uppity Jews, Muslims, and nonbelievers in their proper place. Grumbling on his increasingly irrelvent talk show, the self professed legend in his own mind openly condemned as un-American those who refuse to celebrate the Christmas Holiday in a religiously correct fashion.
“There’s a Reich way and a wrong way to celebrate this thing,” O’Reilly stammered. “And its time that we made a living hell for those who won’t share the love, joy, and peace of the season.”
Sphere: Related ContentHow the Shrub screwed Christmas: NOT
December 2, 2007 by BibleBelted · Leave a Comment
HOW THE SHRUB SCREWED CHRISTMAS: NOT
Based on HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
by DOCTOR SEUSS ( AKA Theodor Geisel)
Parody Version by BibleBelted, PraetorOne, Matthew5, and DoctorWho
Every Blue
Up in Blue-ville
Loved Christmas a lot
But the Shrub
Who lived South of Blue-ville
Did NOT
The Shrub hated Christmas; and this was a reason
He hated the joy and the whole peaceful season.
It could be perhaps he loved pain and the fright
Or maybe his brain wasn’t working quite right
But I believe that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his conscience was no conscience at all.
But whatever the reason
The soul or his brain
He cursed through December, raising all kinds of Cain
Glaring up from DC with a mean Bushy smirk
He proved to the people that the Shrub was a jerk
Yes he knew every Blue up in Blue-ville above
Was now happily showing the peace and the love
“And they’ve taken my Congress,” he complained in a snit
“They’re praying for peace, they are so full of shit.”
Then he clawed with Bush talons, crazily drumming
“Stop democracy now, keep the freedom from coming.”
The Christmas Wars: How the Radical Christian Right will again bastardize the Spirit of Christmas.
November 25, 2007 by BibleBelted · 2 Comments
The Christmas Wars:
How the Radical Christian Right Will Again Bastardize the Spirit of Christmas
By BibleBelted, PraetorOne and Matthew5
“I am not going to let aggressive totalitarian and anti-Christian forces in this country diminish, denigrate, the holiday and the celebration. I’m gonna use all the power that I have on radio and television to bring horror into the world of people who are trying to do that..”
Bill O’Reilly trying to sound like a Christian, circa 2006
It seems as if the Radical Christian Right has stepped up its attack on America and mainstream Christianity by extending the Cultural War to include the words Happy Holidays; and while they may not realize it, they haven’t exactly done a lot to equate their battle cry of “Merry Christmas” with anything especially Merry or Christian either.
On the surface, the whole thing seems rather bizarre. Christ, after all, never politicized his religious teachings; and the last we knew, bringing horror into the world of concerned Americans who oppose a Christian Republic or a Fundamentalist theocracy isn’t exactly a Christian standard. So you just have to wonder: Why would the same professional misanthropes who so fervently complain about political correctness, want to demote the words “Merry Christmas” to the mere equivalent of right wing political war chant? Why would they want use Christmas, of all things, as an excuse to infuriate the American people at what they claim is the holiest time of the year?
First and foremost, we need to remember that this isn’t the first time that the Pseudo Christian Right has used Christmas as a weapon against its opponents.
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