I’m an atheist, and I’ve always enjoyed the Christmas season. I certainly didn’t need a coloring book to help me do so!
The Godless Left want a 4th of July without the patriotism too.
That's OK, but celebrate Solstice, Yule, The Great Nothingness, whatever, just don't say you're celebrating Christmas--us Christians will take care of that. And when Cinco de Mayo comes around, feel free to celebrate May Day, Jose Cuervo, Drunken Gringo Day, etc. but don't insult the Mexicans by acting like you belong.
Blank pages - you fill in your own?
I heard a story once about a priest telling an atheist, “If you’re right, it’s no big deal. Lights out! But if I’m right, you’re toast.”
Few things point more towards the man-made origin of religion than the twisted sisters who first came up with the idea of “Hell.” Even the pagan Romans and Greeks believed Hades was just a depressing underworld of shadows.
The genuinely frightening `Old’ Testament God makes no mention of it; we don’t get much detail until the Prince of Peace comes along in the ‘new’ testament. (Work with me Israelites)
There’s a lot of throat-clearing when you bring up Heaven: `What’s it like?’ “Well, um, it’s very nice. It’s comfortable. Think Hooters, but the waitresses are fully clothed. Eat all you want, solid gold bar & pearl urinals, um, lions laying down with lamb, probably all the ice cream you can eat ... “ etc. etc.
But bring up hell and you get specific details, a comprehensive, descriptive & hair-raising tour of all seven levels with the gnashing of teeth, wailing, 3rd degree burns, hopping devils forking souls into the lake of fire, and on-and-on.
I think it was Tertullian who first described one of the comforts of Heaven as constant relish in the torture of others.
Well anyway, merry Christmas.
‘This is He,’ I will say, ‘the son of the carpenter and the harlot, the sabbath-breaker, the Samaritan who had a devil. This is He whom you purchased from Judas, this is He who was struck with reed and fist, defiled with spittle, given gall and vinegar to drink. This is He whom the disciples secretly stole away to spread the story of His resurrection, or whom the gardener removed lest his lettuces be trampled by the throng of curious idlers.’
- Tertullian
An “Athiest Christmas” is an oxymoron, or more like just “moronic”.
These people are totally obsessed with Christianity.
Atheist conservatives should just gather ‘round a statue of Ayn Rand, wooden of course, and listen to a recording of her infamous chapter-long soliloquy. Just take your pick, any one of them will do. For all the high school righteous indignation she musters, nobody can top the sheer cartoonery of her superhero protagonists prattling on for days, on this or that soapbox. Oh, flip a coin, heads it’s architecture, tails it’s trains. That should put all five of them to sleep.
Atheist progressives should take the opportunity to realize just how large their carbon footprint is, and eliminate it. Completely.
Why are atheists so insecure?
Why do they proselytize?
Why do they care?
Fr Malachi Martin from a few decades ago - paraphrasing - We’re leaving a Christian world and entering into a Paganistic world.
http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=2640502%2C1
In my youth, The Nativity was very much at the center of the public celebration of Christmas, and this included TV specials depicting the Story of the Nativity.
One of these was on one time and my dad was reading a magazine apparently not paying attention. I guess it was an opera, and in the middle of a big chorus, “And Joseph was angry ...” my dad started laughing. My mom asked him what was so funny, and he said, “Well, Mary is pregnant, and Joseph is mad because he doesn’t think he did it, and here they are singing about it! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!” My mom remonstrated, “That isn’t funny.” “Yes it is,” he replied.
The coloring book makes a nice point that EVERYONE is missing the meaning of the holiday. It is about caring and sharing and family and friends. I think atheists and Christians can agree on that.
http://www.mindposts.com/uncategorized/celebrate-a-rational-holiday-with-the-atheist-christmas-coloring-book