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3 comments:
Ah, yes. The Pagan Holiday. Christmas has become an occasion that serves to sharply delineate the differences between traditionalist conservatives, and "progressives".
We old-fashioned conservatives celebrate the birth of a child two thousand years ago, and we continue to celebrate new life today. Progressives now believe that the best thing for the planet is to abort their children and sterilize themselves. Someday we'll have a pristine planet and no one left to enjoy it.
Ironically, the very sorts of programs liberals love require subsequent legions of taxpayers to continue to pick up the tab. Whether it's Social Security, or universal health care, they all implode if the population declines.
So it seems that perhaps this silly Jesus narrative, whether it's all just appropriated pagan mumbo-jumbo or not, does have the salutory effect of reminding humans that life is fundamentally good, and if you want to keep it going, it takes babies. Particularly if you like social programs!
You are not an old fashioned conservative, you are a neocon who remains adamantly opposed to the realities of a modern world.
My allusion to Christmas being a pagan festival is quite close to the truth. As we all know, Jesus was not born on Christmas Day but probably some time in February in the old Julian Calendar. The early Christian church incorporated many pagan festivals into its rituals in order to ingratiate themselves into the fabric of the everyday life of those times. The Winter Solstice, being one of the major pagan festivals, was hijacked and the myth of Christmas fabricated.
As for your other myth, progressives believing in sterilization and abortion, it is preposterous propaganda fostered by lunatics who have to believe that their opposition is as sick, twisted and extreme as they are.
We believe in Choice...
No where on the planet, where Social Security and Universal Healthcare is prevelant, has suffered from your imagined implosions, in fact, they are some of the most prosperous and socially progressive countries in the world, where their citizens no longer struggle with the age-old sanctimonious bullshit religious moralizing that this country has to suffer through from buffoons like you.
You want to live in a theocracy? Go live in Iran or 'post-war' Iraq.
Just to clarify the 'buffoon' thing. I used this mild epithet in the context that 'you' would even imagine that I would swallow the pseudo-religious mumbo jumbo the right wing utilizes in its culture war against reason.
I would never question your faith, that is a personal journey that I have great respect for...
However, the religious rights entry into national politics is having a very damaging effect upon this country and, to some extent, upon themselves.
They should stick to saving souls, not the problems of the world. When the Bible or the Torah or the Koran become civic policy, we as a planet are in for a terrible time. I would rather avoid the 'end of days' and the inherent idiocy of Revelations and dream of humanity living in a peaceful world, embracing our differences and readying ourselves to explore the universe as a single united species.
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