Holy Shit...Falafel O'Loofah is gonna spring a leak when he sees this...
Some of the nation's most prominent megachurches have decided not to hold worship services on the Sunday that coincides with Christmas Day, a move that is generating controversy among evangelical Christians at a time when many conservative groups are battling to "put the Christ back in Christmas."
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...Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Ill., always a pacesetter among megachurches, is handing out a DVD it produced for the occasion that features a heartwarming contemporary Christmas tale.
"What we're encouraging people to do is take that DVD and in the comfort of their living room, with friends and family, pop it into the player and hopefully hear a different and more personal and maybe more intimate Christmas message, that God is with us wherever we are," said Cally Parkinson, communications director at Willow Creek, which draws 20,000 people on a typical Sunday.
So, how do you spell XMAS when you just can't hold services? P-L-A-Y. Damn, next the Feminazis will be wanting equal time with the remote...it never ends, this war on XMAS, does it? It really is a good thing that XMas is such a settled thing, isn't it? After all, I'd hate to think that the 80% minority of highly persecuted Xtians were worshipping a pagan solstice or something.
posted by Jo Fish on 12.09.05 at 09:18 AM
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Ha ha ha, oh yeah, that winter solstice holiday that we all celebrate!
Well, we do in a way it's called paying the electric bill...
Don't tell anyone, but I actually have my own remote... I just can't find the "over-ride" button...
Questions: Can you observe and celebrate Christmas on your own property and in your own home? Can you observe Christmas and celebrate it at the church of your choice? Can you celebrate and observe Christmas with others who share your religous beliefs on your property, in their homes, or in your church? If your work is such that it is not critical for you to be at do you have 25 December (or another) day off from work to do what you choose in the privacy of your own property, church, or with others that share your religous beliefs? Can you not find Christmas music, Christmas cards, Christmas movies, Christmas television shows, Christmas decorations to share with others that share your religous beliefs on your/their property or church? I SERIOUSLY DOUBT that anyone in this country can say no to any of the above scenarios. (No fair claiming, for example, that Christmas is under attack if you find one radio station, or one store, that doesn't shout Christmas when you can turn the dial or shop in another store that does.) Then just what is the problem???
The "war on Christmas"... I'll never forget that December day when I was surrounded by the faceless mob of shoppers at that hell they called the mall. It was quiet and then, and then, suddenly the doors opened and they were everywhere, but no uniforms--no red and greens, just the stuff the civvies wore, each and all a center of resistance to Chritsmas. Where was the promised backup?? It was horrible. I heard their shouts of victory, "happy holidays! happy holidays!" For the longest hour in my life I fought the maddened crowd until I heard her cry, "please, please just make it end!" Yes, she had lost it, my buddy, and all I could do was pull her away from the center of fire, and we escaped in our SUV. But we shall return with our banners of red and green and the field will be ours.
posted by: Nina on 12.10.05 at 09:21 AM [permalink]
Ray's questions deserve attention. I don't want to blow my own horn, but you can't be stupid and do a fraction of what I do. Yet I have a co-worker who will not only insist that Christians are the most persecuted religion in this country, but if pressed would make the same claim about white men.
Apparently it is a God damn miracle that a Protestant White Male actually became President of the United States. 42 out of 43 times. And the only exception was a Catholic White Male from a fabulously wealthy family.
Because you know if you are Rich and White and Male you just can't catch a break in America today. And that goes double if you are a Protestant and triple if you are an Evangelical.
Yeah, and Ralph Reed is living under a bridge tonight.
Kind of an odd turnaround. The Right has been calling us Lefties players of the victim card, that by God if you don't like being oppressed get yourself a damn job like I did. (In my Uncle Jack's firm, as an Executive Trainee). Suddenly they are weeping "oppression". Maybe they are sensing a sea shift before it happens, because I have been waiting for a couple of decades to unleash my Inner FDR and put cousin Teddy's Big Stick back into play, and Jack and Tom have the entire Right lined up backwards just waiting to be whacked.
We'll give them something to cry about, and it will have little to nothing to do with any War on Christmas.
ANYthing, anything to keep people from understanding that they are being hosed so badly that they won't be able to sit for the rest of their children's lives at the hands of mr. bush and his band of thieves.
posted by: MmichaelAK on 12.12.05 at 08:25 PM [permalink]
