Cases of 'type 2' diabetes INCREASED by 40% between 1990 and 1999, and this increase is expected to accelerate in the years to come. Guess the children of America were 'tricked', after all.
Posted on 11/03/2001 5:06:55 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood
It never ceases to amaze me that most Christians would criticize me for being an atheist, yet they will "celebrate" a macabre pagan holiday. They inculcate their children into the practice of it and feed them the most unhealthful things you could give a child to eat.
Likewise, many atheists criticize me for being a "right-winger." Most atheists are so caught up in their polemics, they have become nothing more than anti-Christians - or what I call the Religious Left (a collaboration of the Marxist religion, neo-pagan animal/tree/earth worshipper eco-fascists and general technophobes).
Why do you "celebrate" on certain "holidays," what are you celebrating, do you really know? Or have you been so lost in the conformity of it all to really take a look at what you partake in?
LOL!
Did you get some coal in your stocking last year?
Sheesh, some people find Christmas to be a joyous occasion without any political overtones. Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Man. That sort of thing.
If you don't like it, ignore it. But don't try to define it for the rest of us because you couldn't be more wrong, dude.
A picture is worth a thousand words, or so the saying goes.
Don't forget Reformation Day
Few people who enjoy the holiday today have any idea of its origins and don't care. It's just a way for everyone to tap into the little kid inside who still likes to be scared...especially when we know the scares are not real.
Those determined to find evil in every corner or the too-tightly-wound may not understand how we can find such dark and disturbing images delightful. Maybe part of it is the creativity it takes to 'suspend our disbelief' long enough to allow the obviously-concocted scares to work their magic; maybe it's like 'whistling past the graveyard.'
Whatever it is, Halloweeniacs come together one night each year to let their hair down, to scream or instigate screams, to laugh and be laughed at...and to once again remember the heart-pounding excitement we felt as little kids building our courage to ring the bell on the door of a strange house....ready for anything....but getting candy.
And I for one hope I never outgrow that delight.
Cases of 'type 2' diabetes INCREASED by 40% between 1990 and 1999, and this increase is expected to accelerate in the years to come. Guess the children of America were 'tricked', after all.
Especially if you cannot read or write...
As a reformed, amillenial Christian who believes Satan was trounced, defeated, decimated...at the Cross, I see it as making a mockery of him.
The impression I get from his radio program is that he's a raving loony.
All the poor misguided Christians you're protecting from the evil of Halloween might want to read this as well.
"I am a man without sin" - Roy Masters
"I am in this house as much at my ease as if it was my own, and the gardens are a paradise. But a pleasanter thing is the kind countenance, the facetious and very intelligent conversation of Mine Host, who, having been for many years engaged in public affairs, seen all parts of Europe, and kept the best company in the world, is himself the best existing."
"…the exquisite sense of classical design, charmingly reproduced by the Lord Le Despenser at West Wycombe, whimsical and puzzling as it may sometimes be in its imagery, is as evident below the earth as above it."
With Benjamin Franklin, Dashwood produced a revised edition of the Book of Common Prayer for the Church of England, entitled The Franklin Prayer Book, omitting all readings from the Old Testament, which became popular in America – but was rejected by the British Bishops.
If you can not win on intellect, use vailed personal attacks.
Can't dissagree with that....
"I guage this by the type of responses I have gotten here among my "conservative" allies"
But you lost it here....
I haven't seen much in the way of intellectual persuit (Philosophy) anywhere in a long time and, while I consider myself to be a conservative, would find myself at odds with many "so-called conservative allies" on many issues. I don't know what types of responses you expected to get but if you expected them to be intellectual, you obviously must have some sort of faith...religion.
As an atheist, just what is it that you don't believe in?
That's just the half of it.
Or a cartoon...
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