Four Kinds of Christmas
14 October 2015, 01:42 PM
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Four Kinds of Christmas
This is a very short piece by someone with whom I have recently struck-up a friendship. It's a review copy so you'll have to scroll down occasionally. Please take a half hour to read it and if you'd like I can pass on your feedback to Glen.
https://www.10ofthose.com/cmsfiles/F...f%20the%20book
https://www.10ofthose.com/cmsfiles/F...f%20the%20book
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Apart from that, the way he talks, the speech patterns and the accent reminds me of the comedian Tim Minchin.
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Fair enough. So you don't tell her the truth that Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, but you do tell her about a fictional, omnipotent gift-giver who only rewards certain children and does so by coming down a chimney having flown through the sky on a sleigh. Incidentally, you do know that 'Santa' is a manifestation of St. Nicholas, right?
16 October 2015, 10:38 AM
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Well, Christmas was only invented at that time as it made it easier to convert pagans to Christianity. It is well documented that JC was alledgedly born in September according to most literature.
I am sure she knows that santa is not real and if she asks I will tell her it is fictional.
imo believing in santa is nowhere near as dillusional or hurtful as believing in God and church by proxy
I am sure she knows that santa is not real and if she asks I will tell her it is fictional.
imo believing in santa is nowhere near as dillusional or hurtful as believing in God and church by proxy
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I am sure she knows that santa is not real and if she asks I will tell her it is fictional.
imo believing in santa is nowhere near as dillusional or hurtful as believing in God and church by proxy
16 October 2015, 11:09 AM
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There is nothing hurtful in believing in God (or a superior "something" whatever that may be" per se. It is often the baggage that comes with that - indoctrination and doing things according to a fictional book and guy and especially doing stupid things because the bible says so such as believing evolution is fictitious and that the world is only 5000 years old etc
I have no issue with people who have faith and leave it there. I do not like religion as this is just the perversion of faith. But please please do not try to convince me that God is real etc etc...I am not a child. When I die, I rot in the ground etc
I have no issue with people who have faith and leave it there. I do not like religion as this is just the perversion of faith. But please please do not try to convince me that God is real etc etc...I am not a child. When I die, I rot in the ground etc
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There is nothing hurtful in believing in God (or a superior "something" whatever that may be" per se. It is often the baggage that comes with that - indoctrination and doing things according to a fictional book and guy and especially doing stupid things because the bible says so such as believing evolution is fictitious and that the world is only 5000 years old etc
I have no issue with people who have faith and leave it there. I do not like religion as this is just the perversion of faith. But please please do not try to convince me that God is real etc etc...I am not a child. When I die, I rot in the ground etc
I have no issue with people who have faith and leave it there. I do not like religion as this is just the perversion of faith. But please please do not try to convince me that God is real etc etc...I am not a child. When I die, I rot in the ground etc
Though line two of your post does the terror reverse.
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Fair enough. So you don't tell her the truth that Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, but you do tell her about a fictional, omnipotent gift-giver who only rewards certain children and does so by coming down a chimney having flown through the sky on a sleigh. Incidentally, you do know that 'Santa' is a manifestation of St. Nicholas, right?
the huge and critical difference here is NOBODY takes Santa clause seriously beyond childhood.
It is quite rightly dismissed way before puberty as a little nonsensical.
it persists as a bit of fun and is used perpetually as the biggest weapon in the arsenal of parenting's dirty tricks
However loaves and fishes?, Noah and the flood? (makes the Santa clause fantasy seem tame in comparison), Adam and Eve and a talking snake ?, Lots wife as a pillar of salt?, The parting of the sea by Abraham etc, etc, ad infinitum, and ad nasuseam.
As a grown up and (theoretically) mature adult christian you are expected to take all these ridiculous fables without question from a book that has all the credibility of thousand year old game of chinese whispers but Santa is stoopid ???? ironyometer just exploded
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Fictional and omnipotent gift giver ? but the church claims him as a saint canonised on the basis of some extremely dubious "miraculous" exploits something about resurrecting butchered children from a barrel and suddenly his validity is beyond question ?
the huge and critical difference here is NOBODY takes Santa clause seriously beyond childhood.
It is quite rightly dismissed way before puberty as a little nonsensical.
it persists as a bit of fun and is used perpetually as the biggest weapon in the arsenal of parenting's dirty tricks
However loaves and fishes?, Noah and the flood? (makes the Santa clause fantasy seem tame in comparison), Adam and Eve and a talking snake ?, Lots wife as a pillar of salt?, The parting of the sea by Abraham etc, etc, ad infinitum, and ad nasuseam.
As a grown up and (theoretically) mature adult christian you are expected to take all these ridiculous fables without question from a book that has all the credibility of thousand year old game of chinese whispers but Santa is stoopid ???? ironyometer just exploded
the huge and critical difference here is NOBODY takes Santa clause seriously beyond childhood.
It is quite rightly dismissed way before puberty as a little nonsensical.
it persists as a bit of fun and is used perpetually as the biggest weapon in the arsenal of parenting's dirty tricks
However loaves and fishes?, Noah and the flood? (makes the Santa clause fantasy seem tame in comparison), Adam and Eve and a talking snake ?, Lots wife as a pillar of salt?, The parting of the sea by Abraham etc, etc, ad infinitum, and ad nasuseam.
As a grown up and (theoretically) mature adult christian you are expected to take all these ridiculous fables without question from a book that has all the credibility of thousand year old game of chinese whispers but Santa is stoopid ???? ironyometer just exploded
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/w...sea-in-exodus/
In other words, because I have faith in Jesus, I'm not divorced from the reality of the laws of nature.
16 October 2015, 05:39 PM
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Fictional and omnipotent gift giver ? but the church claims him as a saint canonised on the basis of some extremely dubious "miraculous" exploits something about resurrecting butchered children from a barrel and suddenly his validity is beyond question ?
the huge and critical difference here is NOBODY takes Santa clause seriously beyond childhood.
It is quite rightly dismissed way before puberty as a little nonsensical.
it persists as a bit of fun and is used perpetually as the biggest weapon in the arsenal of parenting's dirty tricks
However loaves and fishes?, Noah and the flood? (makes the Santa clause fantasy seem tame in comparison), Adam and Eve and a talking snake ?, Lots wife as a pillar of salt?, The parting of the sea by Abraham etc, etc, ad infinitum, and ad nasuseam.
As a grown up and (theoretically) mature adult christian you are expected to take all these ridiculous fables without question from a book that has all the credibility of thousand year old game of chinese whispers but Santa is stoopid ???? ironyometer just exploded
the huge and critical difference here is NOBODY takes Santa clause seriously beyond childhood.
It is quite rightly dismissed way before puberty as a little nonsensical.
it persists as a bit of fun and is used perpetually as the biggest weapon in the arsenal of parenting's dirty tricks
However loaves and fishes?, Noah and the flood? (makes the Santa clause fantasy seem tame in comparison), Adam and Eve and a talking snake ?, Lots wife as a pillar of salt?, The parting of the sea by Abraham etc, etc, ad infinitum, and ad nasuseam.
As a grown up and (theoretically) mature adult christian you are expected to take all these ridiculous fables without question from a book that has all the credibility of thousand year old game of chinese whispers but Santa is stoopid ???? ironyometer just exploded
