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Antedeus		2011-11-22 05:02:50 PM

umad: This is Ric Romero reporting that religious people are ignorant authoritarians that love brow-beating us heathens over our lack of faith while simultaneously attempting to pass laws that subject us to their farknuttery. Logical people don't appreciate such nonsense.

Actually, it you lot doing all the browbeating and making all the noise.

brigid_fitch		2011-11-22 05:04:57 PM

Antedeus: Why do you guys care so much about how other people worship? Isn't this really a personal matter?

Seriously, I'm really asking. On many forums, Reddit, 4Chan, Digg and Fark there is the undercurrent of hostility toward religion and religious people. Why? I suspect it is an expression of the anti-authoritarian nature of so called "geek culture" or just the natural impulse of children to rebel against the values of their parents.

I find it rather odd.

I can't speak for everyone but as a Christian, I just enjoy pointing out the hypocrisy exhibited in TFA. Granted, not the most Christian thing to do, but Fundies don't listen to reason, anyway. Besides, it really does bug me when they go on about that War on Christmas BS. Nonsense like that gives us moderate Christians a bad rep.

Sticky Hands		2011-11-22 05:05:50 PM

CygnusDarius: Deucednuisance: Heretics?

What are we Apostates supposed to do?

EXTERMINATUS.

That's your answer for everything....

Do you want fries with that?

EXTERMINATUS

Paper or plastic?

EXTERMINATUS

Man, can you hook me up with directions to Crenshaw, man?

EXTERMIN...

CheekyMonkey		2011-11-22 05:07:47 PM

Antedeus: Why do you guys care so much about how other people worship? Isn't this really a personal matter?

Seriously, I'm really asking. On many forums, Reddit, 4Chan, Digg and Fark there is the undercurrent of hostility toward religion and religious people. Why? I suspect it is an expression of the anti-authoritarian nature of so called "geek culture" or just the natural impulse of children to rebel against the values of their parents.

I find it rather odd.

If religious folk kept "how they worship" as a personal matter, no issue would exist. However, a not-insignificant subset of religious folk insist A) on trying to legislate their religious beliefs into law, and B) that everyone respect their religious beliefs to the extent that wishing them "Happy Holidays" is taken as an attack on their religion.

A better question to be asking in this context would be, "Hey, Christians - you may have noticed that there are other holidays at this time of year - what's the big deal if someone says "Happy Holidays" as a method of recognizing all of them, religious and secular, in one fell swoop?"

Hope this helps.

Omnivorous		2011-11-22 05:12:21 PM

The Puritans say the AFA are blasphemers. The Massachusetts law banning Christmas:

"For preventing disorders, arising in several places within this jurisdiction by reason of some still observing such festivals as were superstitiously kept in other communities, to the great dishonor of God and offense of others: it is therefore ordered by this court and the authority thereof that whosoever shall be found observing any such day as Christmas or the like, either by forbearing of labor, feasting, or any other way, upon any such account as aforesaid, every such person so offending shall pay for every such offence five shilling as a fine to the county."

You can't get more American than the Puritans. So the AFA is anti-American.

CowboyNinjaD		2011-11-22 05:16:17 PM

Based on the criteria listed on the website, if the Super XXX Dildo Emporium writes "Merry Christmas" on its advertisements, then it apparently gets the American Family Association seal of approval?

Harold_of_the_Rocks		2011-11-22 05:21:15 PM

And here we see the cracks in the Christianist/Corporate alliance of the New Right. The Corporations just want to make money, so they try to be as inclusive and non-offensive as possible in order to appeal to the widest possible market. The Christianists are typically rabid conservatives who LOVE the free market, except when it doesn't cater exactly to their sensibilities. (see the media and entertainment industries as well)

Now, when the Christianists (note I didn't say "Christians") find that the Corporations are more interested in making money than enforcing mandatory Conservative Evangelical Christianity as a defining characteristic of Americanness, they all of a sudden find the Corporate world to be evil and secular.

Then New Year rolls around and the Christianists go back to being stooges for the Corporatocracy, showing up in droves at primaries because of social wedge issues like teh gays and abortion to get the corporate-anointed the nomination. Notice that the GOP never really acts on those wedge issues? Because if they did, they'd never be able to motivate the hard-core base come election time.

/Festivus for the rest of us!

tylerdurden217		2011-11-22 05:21:15 PM

CowboyNinjaD: Based on the criteria listed on the website, if the Super XXX Dildo Emporium writes "Merry Christmas" on its advertisements, then it apparently gets the American Family Association seal of approval?

I think that store sells the "Divine Intervention" Crucifix Dildo.

XveryYpettyZ		2011-11-22 05:22:37 PM

Not this shiat again.

CSB time.

5-6 years ago my dad, who is a Christian, was walking around the grocery store around the holiday when he met somebody he knew slightly. He lives in a smallish town and is reasonably well known as a financial supporter of interfaith activities and a business owner. He greets this fellow "Merry Christmas" to which the person responds "God, I am SO GLAD you said that. All these people going around saying Happy Holidays is just an attempt to wreck Christmas." My dad looks at him and says, "We have boys dying over in Iraq and Afghanistan and that's what you're concerned about?" and walks off.

Sometimes I'm so proud of my father. He used to be much more concerned about not offending potential customers, but I guess you can only take so much BS.

Antedeus		2011-11-22 05:35:33 PM

CheekyMonkey: If religious folk kept "how they worship" as a personal matter, no issue would exist.

So, it's the other guy's fault then? You guys make it seem like religious people are all around you forcing their views upon you. That is bullshiat. You live in a society where religion is a huge part of the culture and you take any exposure to the larger culture as insult. Really, aside from the an occasional bell ringer at Christmas, Mormon missionary or Jehovah's Witness ringing the bell who is persecuting you? No one.

RexTalionis		2011-11-22 05:39:45 PM

Antedeus: CheekyMonkey: If religious folk kept "how they worship" as a personal matter, no issue would exist.

So, it's the other guy's fault then? You guys make it seem like religious people are all around you forcing their views upon you. That is bullshiat. You live in a society where religion is a huge part of the culture and you take any exposure to the larger culture as insult. Really, aside from the an occasional bell ringer at Christmas, Mormon missionary or Jehovah's Witness ringing the bell who is persecuting you? No one.

Nobody is persecuting me. And nobody is persecuting the Christian Evangelicals, a lesson which they should remember well before they start declaring war against people who they think are oppressing them by saying "Happy Holidays."

Also, I don't know if you've spoken with some of the really religious folks, but they do take exposure to the larger culture as an insult sometimes.

Antedeus		2011-11-22 05:40:10 PM

Harold_of_the_Rocks: Christianist/Corporate alliance of the New Right.

img510.imageshack.us

Seriously? Your schizoid paranoia is showing. Time to get back on your meds.

Krieghund		2011-11-22 05:44:22 PM

shut_it_down: Wasn't mixing religion and consumerism pretty much the only thing Jesus got actively pissed off about? Nail him to a post and flog him? That's fine. Use the temple as a marketplace? He flips his shiat.

Well said.

meat0918		2011-11-22 05:54:46 PM

Some people never learn.

I suppose it was time for a new religion concern troll to rear his head, wasn't it?

abb3w		2011-11-22 05:56:21 PM

Antedeus: On many forums, Reddit, 4Chan, Digg and Fark there is the undercurrent of hostility toward religion and religious people. Why?

One factor is generational. The fraction of irreligious among cohorts has apparently been rising on a 27 year time constant for a long time. The impressive part is we apparently still haven't hid midpoint; if the trend holds, the 2007 cohort will end up 50% deconverted by age 25. It's even more impressive if you factor in strength of religious identification -- those who are left tend to identify less with their faith than before. Writing it off as "the natural impulse of children to rebel against the values of their parents" neglects that the effects span over two generations.

The other factor would be the subjective impression that the religious right is getting pushier. This may or may not be objectively justified, but it doesn't need to be objectively true to trigger a backlash.

That techies (a) tend secularist, (b) tend to learn from practice, and (c) started using the internet to argue the issues about a decade before September Never Ended... plausibly could be a tertiary factor.

The relationship between anti-authoritarianism, atheism. and techies isn't clear. There's sociological data to indicate Atheists tend to be disproportionately low-RWA in outlook (although I suspect a non trivial SDO streak), and seem to tend (not uniformly) to be a hair smarter, making success in technical fields more practical. Causation versus correlation comes in, however; and I'm not aware of direct sociological research on atheist/techie or techie/(low)RWA relation.

a.imageshack.us

SisterMaryElephant		2011-11-22 05:56:25 PM

Antedeus: CheekyMonkey: If religious folk kept "how they worship" as a personal matter, no issue would exist.

So, it's the other guy's fault then? You guys make it seem like religious people are all around you forcing their views upon you. That is bullshiat. You live in a society where religion is a huge part of the culture and you take any exposure to the larger culture as insult. Really, aside from the an occasional bell ringer at Christmas, Mormon missionary or Jehovah's Witness ringing the bell who is persecuting you? No one.

Well, y'all won't let me marry my horse (which you inaccurately predicted would happen when gay marriage was legalized), so yeah, I'm feeling a bit persecuted.

/well hung

vernonFL		2011-11-22 05:56:36 PM

itsfullofstars: So the fundies are out with another list of businesses to label as good or bad according to them. You know who else labeled businesses this way:

[upload.wikimedia.org image 499x315]

At first I thought that was the brolocaust

It looked like: dude! dude! dude! dude!

Harold_of_the_Rocks		2011-11-22 05:57:31 PM

I'm not off my meds. The GOP uses social wedge issues to get people to the polls. They are very, very good at this. But the GOPers don't really do anything about those social wedge issues once they're elected. Roe V. Wade has never been seriously challenged, despite the GOP's dominance of American politics since the 1980s. Why? Because then they couldn't get the fired-up Jesus warriors to the polls every couple of years.

But what the GOP DOES do is do a lot for the corporate world, who are their REAL base, because the corporate world is where it gets its money for campaigning. The Democrats are only slightly less beholden to corporate interests, and they usually are pretty incompetent about firing up their base with very divisive issues come election time. Therefore the corporate world favors the GOP because they're more reliable at getting elected, not really because of ideology.

Bottom line: MONEY > JESUS when it comes down to the bottom line of American politics.

Harold_of_the_Rocks		2011-11-22 06:00:59 PM

Antedeus: Harold_of_the_Rocks: Christianist/Corporate alliance of the New Right.

[img510.imageshack.us image 300x224]

Seriously? Your schizoid paranoia is showing. Time to get back on your meds.

Also, lithium is for bipolar disorder. Thorazine and other antipsychotics for schizoid disorders.

Salem Witch		2011-11-22 06:03:04 PM

Pontious Pilates: Ever since I was a little kid, I always thought "Happy Holidays" sprung from the fact that there are 3-4 secular and religious holidays crammed into a six-week period, and you can just cover the general spirit of the season by saying "Happy Holidays."

Manufactured outrage is manufactured.

Exactly.

But we aren't narcissistic fascists that feel we have the God given right to tell other people what religion (if any) makes sense and is appropriate for everyone.

Harold_of_the_Rocks		2011-11-22 06:22:36 PM

You know, I don't remember flocks of disgruntled atheists, agnostics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Taoists, etc publically grumbling about being told to "Have a Merry Christmas" to them when I was a kid, when it really was always referred to as Christmas. They mostly just said "Thanks, same to you!" except for the O'Hair types, who nobody could really stand anyway because they were obnoxious a-holes who had to push things too far.

What I do see is a bunch of manufactured outrage over the non-issue of inclusive language used by PRIVATE corporations, and somehow trying to transfer that outrage to PUBLIC political figures and/or administrations that conservatives don't like, purely for cynical political ends.

I personally find the current American "holiday season" to be offensive, largely because it is an orgy of rampant consumerism and bland platitudes about family and joy and cheer. You really don't hear much at church about the commercialization of a religious observation, because, as I said MONEY, POSSESSIONS AND POWER > JESUS in America. That is our true religion, and I think Jesus would facepalm if he was here today.

/The end.

rpm		2011-11-22 06:25:56 PM

Antedeus: So, it's the other guy's fault then? You guys make it seem like religious people are all around you forcing their views upon you. That is bullshiat.

Yeah, the major GOP front runners for president admitting they want to impose a theocracy is not forcing, so ignoring it is good, really helps.

fark you.

meat0918		2011-11-22 06:30:21 PM

Harold_of_the_Rocks: You know, I don't remember flocks of disgruntled atheists, agnostics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, Taoists, etc publically grumbling about being told to "Have a Merry Christmas" to them when I was a kid, when it really was always referred to as Christmas. They mostly just said "Thanks, same to you!" except for the O'Hair types, who nobody could really stand anyway because they were obnoxious a-holes who had to push things too far.

What I do see is a bunch of manufactured outrage over the non-issue of inclusive language used by PRIVATE corporations, and somehow trying to transfer that outrage to PUBLIC political figures and/or administrations that conservatives don't like, purely for cynical political ends.

I personally find the current American "holiday season" to be offensive, largely because it is an orgy of rampant consumerism and bland platitudes about family and joy and cheer. You really don't hear much at church about the commercialization of a religious observation, because, as I said MONEY, POSSESSIONS AND POWER > JESUS in America. That is our true religion, and I think Jesus would facepalm if he was here today.

/The end.

Been listening to Bad Religion?

Your rant reminds me of "American Jesus" for some reason.

This text is now purple		2011-11-22 06:32:29 PM

thurstonxhowell: This text is now purple: Happy holidays is sort of like tofu. It's fine, if you treat it as its own thing. But when you use it as a euphemism for Christmas (like using tofu as meat), you piss off people who like Christmas.

If you get pissed off about something as trivial and benign as someone who wishes you happiness during your holiday season, maybe you're just going to have to deal with a world that pisses you off from time to time.

I switched from Merry Christmas to Happy Holidays a few years back because I hope it pisses people like you off every time I say it.

I'm just explaining the position, not defending it. But thanks for being a warm, caring human being.

WordyGrrl		2011-11-22 06:33:29 PM

"Thank you for calling the Spoof Company. In order to properly greet you, we'll need to know your religion. Press 1 for Christian, press 2 for Jewish, press 3 for..."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian. Please select your denomination now. Press 1 for Catholic, press 2 for Protestant, press 3 for ..."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian Protestant. Please select your denomination now. Press 1 for Baptist, press 2 for Episcopalian, press 3 for...."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian Baptist. Please select your denomination now. Press 1 for General Baptist, press 2 for Southern Baptist, press 3 for..."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian Southern Baptist and we wish you a Merry Christmas. According to your sect's religious laws, we are unable to sell liquor, pornography, playing cards, dice or danceable music to you. Your attempted transaction has been denied. Thank you and have a happy Kwanzaa."

This text is now purple		2011-11-22 06:34:27 PM

Uncle Tractor: [i560.photobucket.com image 640x320]

Just sayin' ...

The Russians piled those who believed in heaven like cordwood.

Antedeus		2011-11-22 06:34:28 PM

rpm: Yeah, the major GOP front runners for president admitting they want to impose a theocracy is not forcing, so ignoring it is good, really helps

Except ... you know ... they didn't. I, unlike you apparently, read that Slate blog. The headline was a lie which would have gotten a legitimate journalist fired. Life is simple for you isn't it? A bumper sticker world, full of comic book style villains where everything is black and white. I assume your atheism is much the same.

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Uncle Tractor		2011-11-22 06:35:49 PM

Antedeus: Why do you guys care so much about how other people worship? Isn't this really a personal matter?

We care about the way you guys worship because many of you have a tendency to shove it in our faces, or worse. A personal matter, you say? Tell that to the fundies among you. They seem to have missed the memo.

/see those clowns vying for the GOP candidacy?
//how many of them think their faith is a "personal matter?"

Salem Witch		2011-11-22 06:37:58 PM

One of the comments.

Dee Blaisdell-Rose · Salem College of Business, Salem, OR
Wouldn't it be great if we could come up with some adhesive backed paper, print the word "CHRISTMAS " on that paper in large bold capital letters, then go into stores and wherever they have used the word 'Hokiday' instead of CHRISTMAS, paste the word CHRISTMAS over it. Do you think the morons would get the message?

Oh my. I have seen this woman around town.

fanbladesaresharp		2011-11-22 06:39:03 PM

Harold_of_the_Rocks: I'm not off my meds. The GOP uses social wedge issues to get people to the polls. They are very, very good at this. But the GOPers don't really do anything about those social wedge issues once they're elected. Roe V. Wade has never been seriously challenged, despite the GOP's dominance of American politics since the 1980s. Why? Because then they couldn't get the fired-up Jesus warriors to the polls every couple of years.

But what the GOP DOES do is do a lot for the corporate world, who are their REAL base, because the corporate world is where it gets its money for campaigning. The Democrats are only slightly less beholden to corporate interests, and they usually are pretty incompetent about firing up their base with very divisive issues come election time. Therefore the corporate world favors the GOP because they're more reliable at getting elected, not really because of ideology.

Bottom line: MONEY > JESUS when it comes down to the bottom line of American politics.

(King) Herold...(Temple) of the (Mount) Rocks....yeah you're a bit of a nut. Go find a hillside for your shack and just stay out of view please.

RexTalionis		2011-11-22 06:39:52 PM

Salem Witch: One of the comments.

Dee Blaisdell-Rose · Salem College of Business, Salem, OR
Wouldn't it be great if we could come up with some adhesive backed paper, print the word "CHRISTMAS " on that paper in large bold capital letters, then go into stores and wherever they have used the word 'Hokiday' instead of CHRISTMAS, paste the word CHRISTMAS over it. Do you think the morons would get the message?

Oh my. I have seen this woman around town.

I highly doubt that anyone would get the message, since I don't see "Happy Hokiday" signs very often. Maybe it's an Oregon thing?

fanbladesaresharp		2011-11-22 06:43:25 PM

WordyGrrl: "Thank you for calling the Spoof Company. In order to properly greet you, we'll need to know your religion. Press 1 for Christian, press 2 for Jewish, press 3 for..."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian. Please select your denomination now. Press 1 for Catholic, press 2 for Protestant, press 3 for ..."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian Protestant. Please select your denomination now. Press 1 for Baptist, press 2 for Episcopalian, press 3 for...."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian Baptist. Please select your denomination now. Press 1 for General Baptist, press 2 for Southern Baptist, press 3 for..."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian Southern Baptist and we wish you a Merry Christmas. According to your sect's religious laws, we are unable to sell liquor, pornography, playing cards, dice or danceable music to you. Your attempted transaction has been denied. Thank you and have a happy Kwanzaa."

Well to be fair...you also need to provide examples for Islam and Judiasm, ateishm and Gaism. If you're gonna hate, hate equally.

fanbladesaresharp		2011-11-22 06:48:48 PM

RexTalionis: Salem Witch: One of the comments.

Dee Blaisdell-Rose · Salem College of Business, Salem, OR
Wouldn't it be great if we could come up with some adhesive backed paper, print the word "CHRISTMAS " on that paper in large bold capital letters, then go into stores and wherever they have used the word 'Hokiday' instead of CHRISTMAS, paste the word CHRISTMAS over it. Do you think the morons would get the message?

Oh my. I have seen this woman around town.

I highly doubt that anyone would get the message, since I don't see "Happy Hokiday" signs very often. Maybe it's an Oregon thing?

"we could come up with".....well uh....considering there is a ton of large commercial, nationwide printing going on for the last 100 years that comes out of Oregon, perhaps she should change her tune to "hey lets throw 10 grand at any given printer to print absolutely anything we ask"

Farking amateurs.

Salem Witch		2011-11-22 06:50:20 PM

RexTalionis: Salem Witch: One of the comments.

Dee Blaisdell-Rose · Salem College of Business, Salem, OR
Wouldn't it be great if we could come up with some adhesive backed paper, print the word "CHRISTMAS " on that paper in large bold capital letters, then go into stores and wherever they have used the word 'Hokiday' instead of CHRISTMAS, paste the word CHRISTMAS over it. Do you think the morons would get the message?

Oh my. I have seen this woman around town.

I highly doubt that anyone would get the message, since I don't see "Happy Hokiday" signs very often. Maybe it's an Oregon thing?

We are usually stoned.

I saw that and couldn't figure out if she was trying to do something clever, hokey-day.

Or maybe she was just stoned.

Antedeus		2011-11-22 06:57:14 PM

Uncle Tractor: We care about the way you guys worship because many of you have a tendency to shove it in our faces, or worse. A personal matter, you say? Tell that to the fundies among you. They seem to have missed the memo.

My interest in this is purely from a sociological standpoint. So, you have "fundies" pushing their religion in your face? Really? How? When does this happen? How often? Do you live in a religious community or region?

Is it something like this perhaps?

Anti-christian Atheist Billboards go up just in time for the Christmas season (new window)

RexTalionis		2011-11-22 07:11:41 PM

Salem Witch: RexTalionis: Salem Witch: One of the comments.

Dee Blaisdell-Rose · Salem College of Business, Salem, OR
Wouldn't it be great if we could come up with some adhesive backed paper, print the word "CHRISTMAS " on that paper in large bold capital letters, then go into stores and wherever they have used the word 'Hokiday' instead of CHRISTMAS, paste the word CHRISTMAS over it. Do you think the morons would get the message?

Oh my. I have seen this woman around town.

I highly doubt that anyone would get the message, since I don't see "Happy Hokiday" signs very often. Maybe it's an Oregon thing?

We are usually stoned.

I saw that and couldn't figure out if she was trying to do something clever, hokey-day.

Or maybe she was just stoned.

Winners don't do drugs.

abb3w		2011-11-22 07:31:12 PM

Antedeus: You live in a society where religion is a huge part of the culture and you take any exposure to the larger culture as insult.

No, we take attempts to inculcate religion into government as an infringement of our freedom from religious establishment.

Antedeus: So, you have "fundies" pushing their religion in your face? Really? How? When does this happen? How often?

A case might be possible about the GOP debates....

apoptotic		2011-11-22 07:35:29 PM

fanbladesaresharp: RexTalionis: Salem Witch: One of the comments.

Dee Blaisdell-Rose · Salem College of Business, Salem, OR
Wouldn't it be great if we could come up with some adhesive backed paper, print the word "CHRISTMAS " on that paper in large bold capital letters, then go into stores and wherever they have used the word 'Hokiday' instead of CHRISTMAS, paste the word CHRISTMAS over it. Do you think the morons would get the message?

Oh my. I have seen this woman around town.

I highly doubt that anyone would get the message, since I don't see "Happy Hokiday" signs very often. Maybe it's an Oregon thing?

"we could come up with".....well uh....considering there is a ton of large commercial, nationwide printing going on for the last 100 years that comes out of Oregon, perhaps she should change her tune to "hey lets throw 10 grand at any given printer to print absolutely anything we ask"

Farking amateurs.

Someone should send her a package of adhesive backed printer paper, purchased at Office Max, and tell her to do it herself.

gunther_bumpass		2011-11-22 07:44:57 PM

This text is now purple: Happy holidays is sort of like tofu. It's fine, if you treat it as its own thing. But when you use it as a euphemism for Christmas (like using tofu as meat), you piss off people who like Christmas.

But even then, you only piss off the dumbasses who like Christmas.

Sabyen91		2011-11-22 08:30:40 PM

Antedeus: Uncle Tractor: We care about the way you guys worship because many of you have a tendency to shove it in our faces, or worse. A personal matter, you say? Tell that to the fundies among you. They seem to have missed the memo.

My interest in this is purely from a sociological standpoint. So, you have "fundies" pushing their religion in your face? Really? How? When does this happen? How often? Do you live in a religious community or region?

Is it something like this perhaps?

Anti-christian Atheist Billboards go up just in time for the Christmas season (new window)

Dammit, I recognize this style but I can't place the name.

/It is amazing how many new shiat-disturbers started their Fark journey in November of 2011

chaositect		2011-11-22 08:50:58 PM

Wait a second here. Something here is really bugging me.

I was under the impression that EXTERMINATUS was only conducted in the event that a planet or system could not be cleansed by the emperors troops. Hell, imperial guardsmen could take care of this weak sauce even with their lame ass lasguns. Space marines could make shiat right on their lunch break, and not even blink. Maybe you're a troll RexTalionis, but I think you're a bit too pro EXTERMINATUS here...

johnny queso		2011-11-22 09:12:36 PM

jesusween

typical fundamentalists, bringing elves to a witch fight.

(i don't know what i mean either)

boognish

oroku_saki		2011-11-22 09:31:27 PM

tylerdurden217: CowboyNinjaD: Based on the criteria listed on the website, if the Super XXX Dildo Emporium writes "Merry Christmas" on its advertisements, then it apparently gets the American Family Association seal of approval?

I think that store sells the "Divine Intervention" Crucifix Dildo.

And the baby Jeebus butt plug.

booksmrt		2011-11-22 09:53:09 PM

I'm not sure what the problem is here. You have a self-describing Christian group speaking an overtly Christian message to its self-proclaimed Christian audience demographic. Sure many of the comments aren't exactly theologically sound, but all the article is saying is "Hey. If you have this view, then here are some stores that hold the same views as you." I didn't see a "Link to Fark" option on the page, so most of us are probably outside of their target reader base. Sure it all makes as much sense as stopping buying a brand because they renamed their "American Cheddar" to "Processed Yellow Cheese Type Product", but people's purchasing power has been shifted for much sillier reasons.

AND ANOTHER thing. What's with the "First World Problems" hate? If one lives in "the first world" then one will inevitably experience "first world problems", no?

/what's the deal with ketchup these days?
//soapbox

TigerStar		2011-11-22 10:00:59 PM

vernonFL: Anti-Christmas stores. THESE STORES DO NOT CELEBRATE CHRISTMAS:

Katz's deli

Lucky fortune Chinese carry out

House of Kabob

Taste of India

DO NOT EAT AT THESE ESTABLISHMENTS!

My Chinese wife and I go grocery shopping at the Chinese Food store on Christmas. Seasons Greetings from Krumpus!

i.imgur.com

danimal68		2011-11-22 11:01:57 PM

WordyGrrl: "Thank you for calling the Spoof Company. In order to properly greet you, we'll need to know your religion. Press 1 for Christian, press 2 for Jewish, press 3 for..."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian. Please select your denomination now. Press 1 for Catholic, press 2 for Protestant, press 3 for ..."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian Protestant. Please select your denomination now. Press 1 for Baptist, press 2 for Episcopalian, press 3 for...."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian Baptist. Please select your denomination now. Press 1 for General Baptist, press 2 for Southern Baptist, press 3 for..."
BEEP
"Thank you. You are a Christian Southern Baptist and we wish you a Merry Christmas. According to your sect's religious laws, we are unable to sell liquor, pornography, playing cards, dice or danceable music to you. Your attempted transaction has been denied. Thank you and have a happy Kwanzaa."

Thank you for the best laugh I have had reading this thread.

/trapped in the Deep Baptist South

LEFTofRIGHT		2011-11-22 11:37:53 PM

Christina Ellyson:
Thought you'd like to know I submitted this to a website as an article / website worth reading and it was posted. It will only be up for a day, as news items change, but it's UP now :)

This has to be one of you Farkers,...

/kudos on the profile

Strix occidentalis		2011-11-23 12:00:07 AM

Might have to treat myself to that Strawberry Panic! light novel collected volume, a scanner, and a properly-fitting bra.

JeffTL		2011-11-23 12:42:24 AM

All this talk about putting the Christ back in Christmas. What about putting back the Mass?

I am pretty sure I have seen bread and wine together at a Supervalu-operated grocery store. Close enough, I'm still going to shop at Jewel.

/Tongue firmly in cheek

ciberido		2011-11-23 02:22:19 AM

wmoonfox: Just a bunch of fundies getting their panties in a twist over the idea that Xtianity isn't the center of the universe. Nothing to see here.

They are absolutely NOT getting their Victoria's Secret panties in a twist. No, sir. That's not happening this year.

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