[QUOTE="scorch-62"][QUOTE="Banjo_Kongfooie"]Noone likes name calling. You say merry christmas you assert your celebration of a very superficial time. Do you know suicides are common this time of year. If I walked up and said happy suicide season I would offend people. Not many people like thinking about that. Most people who are not Christian do not want christian beliefs hurled at them either. Happy holidays is the most appropriate term and saying Merry Christmas is innapropriate. Happy Holidays and Gingrinch is the grinch this year. TC is a reasonable citizen who has issues with religous fundies or those who love the superficial notion to throw Christmas at him constantly.Banjo_Kongfooie
Do you actually believe everything you type? Or do you know it's bullshіt?Well lets see.
The Bible advocates sexual slavery
"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. " (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)
God will punish those who do not listen to him and let babies be consumed... Note the sexism as well.
If you refuse to listen to the LORD your God and to obey the commands and laws he has given you, all these curses will pursue and overtake you until you are destroyed. These horrors will serve as a sign and warning among you and your descendants forever. Because you have not served the LORD your God with joy and enthusiasm for the abundant benefits you have received, you will serve your enemies whom the LORD will send against you. You will be left hungry, thirsty, naked, and lacking in everything. They will oppress you harshly until you are destroyed. "The LORD will bring a distant nation against you from the end of the earth, and it will swoop down on you like an eagle. It is a nation whose language you do not understand, a fierce and heartless nation that shows no respect for the old and no pity for the young. Its armies will devour your livestock and crops, and you will starve to death. They will leave you no grain, new wine, olive oil, calves, or lambs, bringing about your destruction. They will lay siege to your cities until all the fortified walls in your land – the walls you trusted to protect you – are knocked down. They will attack all the towns in the land the LORD your God has given you. The siege will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you. The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children. He will refuse to give them a share of the flesh he is devouring – the flesh of one of his own children – because he has nothing else to eat during the siege that your enemy will inflict on all your towns. The most tender and delicate woman among you – so delicate she would not so much as touch her feet to the ground – will be cruel to the husband she loves and to her own son or daughter. She will hide from them the afterbirth and the new baby she has borne, so that she herself can secretly eat them. She will have nothing else to eat during the siege and terrible distress that your enemy will inflict on all your towns. (Deuteronomy 28:45-57 NLT)
Child abuse, Slavery, hatred of homosexuals. Plenty of reasons for athiests to hate being wished a merry christmas.
why do you let christmas relate to religion? It is about the holiday spirit. I am an agnostic athiest and I LOVE christmas. The lights on peoples houses, the christmas trees, the food, and the brand new toys.
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