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10 Dec 2011, 6:15 pm

The baptists are helping!*
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The little catchphrase on the side of the box says, ‘Let your imagination roll wild!’ What do you think the Lord would think if that slogan was written on the first page of the Holy Bible? He wouldn’t like it, but Satan would – that’s for sure. Lucifer’s finger prints are all over Rory’s Story Cubes. First of all, they are not even cubes. They are multiple sided dice. The same kind of dice used in another one of Satan’s favorite games, Dungeons and Dragons!


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As True Christians we are suspect to anything with the word Fire in it. Amazon likes to use Luciferian terminology in describing their popular products. Much like Apple Inc mocks the story of Adam and Eve by implying it is ‘okay’ to take a bite out of the Apple because it gives you knowledge. However, knowledge is the very thing that God did not want Adam and Eve to have! And now we are all stuck with it, but we True Christians are able to avoid it through faith in Christ Jesus. The Amazon Kindle Fire implies openly that fire is knowledge and the product itself is used to kindle that knowledge

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making them think they are going to play on a football team with a flashy name like, ‘Dream Dazzlers.’ Only now, masculine little boys with liberal mothers will find themselves turning into limp-wristed little pansies after they squat their hineys down in front of a Sassy Salon, and listen to their mothers whisper, ‘Ooh La La’ into their innocent ears! “This thing is a queer making machine!” Pastor Deacon Fred told a group of concerned Landover ladies earlier this week.


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Leave it to Fisher-Price to screw up a Bible toy. This version of Noah’s ark is not only missing two of Noah’s sons but also suspiciously absent are over 30,000 species of paired animals and 25,000 species of known insects, some of which required their own temperature controlled habitats to survive the 40 day journey on Noah’s Ark. Not to mention the missing tons of grain, leaves and food supply crates and storage compartments. Our experts contacted Fisher Price to confirm that these additional products are not available for purchase as single items or ‘add ons’ to make their Noah’s Ark toy more Biblically accurate so it would appeal to Baptist parents.




* It is parody.


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10 Dec 2011, 10:15 pm

Donald Glover is with us!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9XWq7zAw3g&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwarmingglow.uproxx.com%2F2011%2F12%2Fa-collection-of-community-christmas-gifs&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]



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10 Dec 2011, 11:50 pm

Fux you dude, I just came to this forum with the objective to post that very youtube video.

Anyway, kudos.


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11 Dec 2011, 6:14 pm

A video: http://www.5min.com/Video/War-On-Christ ... -517224124

An attempt to embed the video:

[youtube]http://www.5min.com/Video/War-On-Christmas-PSA-517224124[/youtube]


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11 Dec 2011, 9:37 pm

Vexcalibur wrote:
As you all should know, the secular types care not about gifts, or chocolate or family dinner but about how to further remove Christianity out of our lives. That's the reason we started saying "Happy Holidays" or "Season's greetings" instead of "merry christmas"


Christmas would figure less in your life if you stopped making threads about it.



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11 Dec 2011, 9:40 pm

Telekon wrote:
Vexcalibur wrote:
As you all should know, the secular types care not about gifts, or chocolate or family dinner but about how to further remove Christianity out of our lives. That's the reason we started saying "Happy Holidays" or "Season's greetings" instead of "merry christmas"


Christmas would figure less in your life if you stopped making threads about it.
I like Christmas, just without Christ, hence Happy Holidays!


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12 Dec 2011, 1:15 pm

Dude, the war on Christmas started the 19.th century!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas# ... th_century
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Reformation into the 19th century

Following the Protestant Reformation, groups such as the Puritans strongly condemned the celebration of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" or the "rags of the Beast."[83] The Catholic Church responded by promoting the festival in a more religiously oriented form. King Charles I of England directed his noblemen and gentry to return to their landed estates in midwinter to keep up their old style Christmas generosity.[99] Following the Parliamentarian victory over Charles I during the English Civil War, England's Puritan rulers banned Christmas in 1647.[83]

Protests followed as pro-Christmas rioting broke out in several cities and for weeks Canterbury was controlled by the rioters, who decorated doorways with holly and shouted royalist slogans.[83] The book, The Vindication of Christmas (London, 1652), argued against the Puritans, and makes note of Old English Christmas traditions, dinner, roast apples on the fire, card playing, dances with "plow-boys" and "maidservants", and carol singing.[100] The Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 ended the ban, but many clergymen still disapproved of Christmas celebration. In Scotland, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland also discouraged observance of Christmas. James VI commanded its celebration in 1618, however attendance at church was scant.[101]

In Colonial America, the Puritans of New England shared radical Protestant disapproval of Christmas. Celebration was outlawed in Boston from 1659 to 1681. The ban by the Pilgrims was revoked in 1681 by English governor Sir Edmund Andros, however it was not until the mid-19th century that celebrating Christmas became fashionable in the Boston region.[84]

At the same time, Christian residents of Virginia and New York observed the holiday freely. Pennsylvania German Settlers, pre-eminently the Moravian settlers of Bethlehem, Nazareth and Lititz in Pennsylvania and the Wachovia Settlements in North Carolina, were enthusiastic celebrators of Christmas. The Moravians in Bethlehem had the first Christmas trees in America as well as the first Nativity Scenes.[102] Christmas fell out of favor in the United States after the American Revolution, when it was considered an English custom.[103] George Washington attacked Hessian (German) mercenaries on Christmas during the Battle of Trenton in 1777, Christmas being much more popular in Germany than in America at this time.

By the 1820s, sectarian tension had eased in Britain and writers, including William Winstanly, began to worry that Christmas was dying out. These writers imagined Tudor Christmas as a time of heartfelt celebration, and efforts were made to revive the holiday. In 1843, Charles Dickens wrote the novel A Christmas Carol, that helped revive the 'spirit' of Christmas and seasonal merriment.[81][82] Its instant popularity played a major role in portraying Christmas as a holiday emphasizing family, goodwill, and compassion.[104]
The Queen's Christmas tree at Windsor Castle published in the Illustrated London News, 1848, and republished in Godey's Lady's Book, Philadelphia, December 1850.

Dickens sought to construct Christmas as a family-centered festival of generosity, in contrast to the community-based and church-centered observations, the observance of which had dwindled during the late 18th century and early 19th century.[105] Superimposing his secular vision of the holiday, Dickens influenced many aspects of Christmas that are celebrated today in Western culture, such as family gatherings, seasonal food and drink, dancing, games, and a festive generosity of spirit.[106] A prominent phrase from the tale, 'Merry Christmas', was popularized following the appearance of the story.[107]

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Also a list has been released with the companies that support the war on Christmas
http://www.afa.net/Detail.aspx?id=2147486887

I bless the following companies.

Banana Republic
Barnes & Noble
Family Dollar
Foot Locker
Gap Stores
L.L. Bean
Limited Brands
Maurice's
Office Depot
Old Navy
Radio Shack
Staples
Supervalu
Victoria's Secret

I mock the following companies for staying neutral like the Swiss, bunch of cowards:
1-800-Flowers.com
Bath & Body Works
Cooking.com
Dollar Tree
Hy-Vee Stores
Limited Brands
Safeway
Starbucks
UncommonGoods.com
Whole Foods


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12 Dec 2011, 3:51 pm

Do you still want the free Big Mac?



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12 Dec 2011, 4:59 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TADcPGxBZC8&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjezebel.com%2F5867301%2Fdecember-madness-journey-to-the-worst-christmas-song-ever&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]


From my bookmarks folder of "creepy holiday things."



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12 Dec 2011, 5:27 pm

shrox wrote:
Do you still want the free Big Mac?
Do not get.


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14 Dec 2011, 8:56 am

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14 Dec 2011, 10:50 am

Am I the only one who thought the OP was just being sarcastic about how all these different groups are so upset about either saying "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas" or upset about not saying them? And the "Xmas" thing? And the decorations in city owned spaces, whether they are there or not?

Thats how I took it. I am fed up with it too. Happy Holidays doesn't hurt anyone and it includes all the religious holidays and secular holidays. It was around when I was a kid back in the 60s and I took it to mean Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. It never offended me. I say "Merry Christmas" because it's my holiday, but if I know someone else celebrates a different one I'll wish them a happy whatever theirs is.


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16 Dec 2011, 11:16 am

The Scottsdale Gun Club has upped the ante in the war against Christmas

http://www.sgcblog.com/?p=381

You can get your HOLIDAY photo with Santa and his guns.

Not your Christmas photo: your HOLIDAY photo.



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08 Dec 2012, 6:33 pm

So, how is the war shaping up this season? Who is winning?



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08 Dec 2012, 6:39 pm

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I'm trying to understand this pic! 8O


It's an Atheist superimposition of the phrase "Cling to your guns and religions"

Best Regards,

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