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Permalink Reply by Jared on November 14, 2011 at 8:19pm

Yeah it used to be a bunch of drunk hooligans going around that would sing loudly and would throw rocks at windows unless they got a free drink. It was party for sure and was in fact banned for many years.

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Permalink Reply by Elle Dee on November 14, 2011 at 6:44pm

Ugh, a family member just posted this in a note:

Twas the month before Christmas
When all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying
Nor taking a stand.
See the PC Police had taken away
The reason for Christmas - no one could say.
The children were told by their schools not to sing
About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.
It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say
December 25th is just a 'Holiday.'
Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit
Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!
CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-Pod
Something was changing, something quite odd!
Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa
In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.
As Targets were hanging their trees upside down
At Lowe's the word Christmas--was no where to be found.
At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears
You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.
Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-si-ty
Are words that were used to intimidate me.
Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen
On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!
At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter
To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.
And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith
Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace
The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded
The reason for the season, stopped before it started.
So as you celebrate 'Winter Break' under your 'Dream Tree'
Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.
Choose your words carefully, choose what you say
Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS,
not Happy Holiday!
Please, all Christians join together and wish everyone you meet MERRY CHRISTMAS.
Christ is the Reason for the CHRISTmas Season!

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Permalink Reply by Hunter Griffin on November 14, 2011 at 2:30am

I find that a good portion, probably 50-60%, of the Facebook statuses I read each day are religious in nature. A lot of them are either Bible verses, 'clever' rhetorical soundbites, or someone asking for prayers. 
Recently, though, one of my friends has been making statuses asking questions such as:
"Why are Christians so persecuted in this country?"
"Why is this [insert minority] allowed to [insert ritual] in school, but prayer isn't allowed?"
"Why do people rally to remove "In God We Trust" form the currency, "Under God" from the pledge, and the Ten Commandments from courthouses? This country is founded on Christian principles; secularists/atheists are ruining this nation!"

Each question is quite easy to answer, but even doing so in a concise, "common sense," manner doesn't seem to help them understand the flaws of their perspectives.

Interestingly, some mutual friend of mine has been posting sardonic, sacrilegious pictures (the ones that my friends seem to comment on involve Jesus engaging in homosexual behavior with Lucifer/other demons) that has deeply offended my friends. I've read through some of the comments; much of it is mired with Christians acting like this is a "Sign of the Times," some of it consists of jokes about the artists being ripe for Hell, and etc.  

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Permalink Reply by Phil Robinson on November 14, 2011 at 7:07am

I can't help myself with some facebook posts; when they are bigoted enough or just not thought through, I have to make a witty (to the best of my non-comedic abilities) remark. Today there was one saying "Rely heavily upon the grace of God this week. He WILL work through you!" So I found myself compelled to comment with "Alternatively, take responsibility for your own actions."

A few of my comments have led to debates on this friends wall, normally by Christians who I believe think they will win the argument easily. It has led quite often to people removing their own comments or saying and I quote "I don't have time any more for logical arguments."

Oh the humanity...

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Permalink Reply by Jared on November 14, 2011 at 11:04am

I had a friend that posted something about a difficult event in their life and of course a couple fundies just had to start with the accept god as your pilot, give everything to Jesus let him guide you, be obedient to god and he will fix this and its all part of god's plan crap. I just responded with something along the lines of " No reason to tug along with the status quo for someone elses sake. Just remember that you control your own fate nobody else so follow what you know to be true in your heart to be the best thing for you and your kids and not worry what anyone else thinks or how they judge you."  One of the fundies responed saying something about fate is controled by god etc etc... totally lame response. I didn't bother to responsed to them because I figured what I said was good enough to stand on its own.

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Permalink Reply by Cesar Deicide on November 14, 2011 at 1:09pm

I don't use facebook a lot, but my greatest religious horror and anger i got it from a response to a post that i made, my post was about a multidisciplinary study/consensus which warned that if we do not act immediately 90% of all marine species will go extinct in a 100 year time due to pollution and global warming. The response was: "That's awful, let's pray for it not to happen"

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Permalink Reply by Jared on November 14, 2011 at 1:22pm

That is great... it made me chuckle at the insanity of the suggestion that praying will clean the oceans.

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Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on November 14, 2011 at 5:53pm

That's a fine response...assuming when they say pray they actually mean cut pollution output to zero and clean the environment back to pristine condition.

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Permalink Reply by Brittney Nugent on November 14, 2011 at 3:35pm

I actually just posted a picture that I took a few minutes ago. I came back to my parent's house to visit after I got out of class today and when I went into the kitchen, I found this hanging on the fridge for my sister:

And I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this. I posted it on my Facebook page with a caption saying: "Seriously? They're charging people to be "Confirmed Catholics" now? What a joke!"

 

Some people, no doubt, will find this offensive... but how do they think I feel when they post stuff like, "Atheists will burn in hell. (Insert some crazy verse from the bible here)."

 

Yeahhhhh...... lol

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Permalink Reply by Elle Dee on November 14, 2011 at 5:24pm

 

This^ was posted on my friend's wall, and here's the discussion that followed:

CK: so why did god make apes look exactly like slightly more primitive versions of us? do you deny the very obvious similarities between primates, and the difference between them and the rest of the animal kingdom? i've seen plenty of people that look exactly like apes, just with more evolutionarily refined bodies. and not just physical characteristics, either. if you line us up at the end of a row of primates in evolutionary order, it's just a clear and natural progression... i don't understand how you ignore the evidence.

JG: You can line up anything. For example, I could say that the spork is the missing link between the spoon and the fork. And similarities point just as much to a common designer as a common ancestor.

CK: amazing...

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Permalink Reply by Elle Dee on November 14, 2011 at 5:56pm

Here are some other things aforementioned person has posted since _last week_.


"Atheists have faith when they say they don't have an explanation as to how their theory can work in reality, but there must be an explanation and they will still hold to their now-defunct belief."

"Can you find the logical problem behind this reasoning? I don't like God, therefore He doesn't exist! While much of the "dislike" is based off misunderstanding, it still does not make a difference."

"Atheists think Christians are stupid for believing we are intelligently designed, and think they are smart for believing they are not designed intelligently at all. Oh, the irony."

"Philosophy, logic, and Christianity are the best of friends."


"The Chapel of *****'s Facebook Page will begin in one hour. I encourage you to take your seat on my profile at that time. The sermon is titled "Will there be gay people in Heaven?" In this service, you are free to pass notes in the form of comments. May God bless you." And he actually had a sermon on his Facebook via statuses. o.0

I keep him on my friend's list so I can argue with him, and because his posts amuse me.

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Permalink Reply by Sharon M on November 14, 2011 at 10:58pm

But science doesn't say that. At least not from what I've heard. The way I see it, science doesn't say "everything came out of nothing" but it says we have been able to calculate our origins from this point, anything before that we have insufficient records of so we don't know but we can theorize. This, to me, is as honest an answer as we can get today so I'll have to disagree, I don't think they have a point at all regarding that issue.

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