It's that time of year again when we learn than Muslamics and Hindihists want to ban Christmas. So post your examples here:
Number 1 is, shock horror, Starbucks have released a green cup instead of a red one.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/put-the-christ-back-in-coffee?utm_term=.rum544oa1#.poPo77Oy6
What an affront to the baby Santa so near his birthday.
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02-11-2016 07:11 AM #1
'The War on Christmas'
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02-11-2016 09:13 AM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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02-11-2016 09:18 AM #4
If a multi-national company like starbucks has stopped bothering to milk the **** out of Christmas then maybe it's days are numbered. I hope so
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02-11-2016 11:17 AM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
There's so many minority groups nowadays that the majority has become the minority - if you get my drift.
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02-11-2016 01:07 PM #6
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Last edited by Mr White; 02-11-2016 at 11:45 AM.
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02-11-2016 11:53 AM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The sooner we can get back to pagan rituals on the 21st of December, the better in my book.
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02-11-2016 11:57 AM #11
I've never encountered anyone of any minority who has had any objection to Christmas.
Whilst most people I know who aren't Christians obviously don't celebrate the religious aspect of Christmas, they tend to acknowledge and recognise the holiday and the festival. Their kids tend to get drawn into the commercial festival and all I know are happy to go along with it to a certain extent. People who have chosen this country as their home almost entirely respect the dominant religion and the views of the people who live there.
I strongly object to the Daily Mail, Britain First kind of mentality that is hell bent on dividing people and creating problems that simply don't exist. It is very harmful and is driving the world into a position it needn't be in.
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02-11-2016 04:28 PM #12
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Think you some this up very well better than I could.
Always seems to be a lot media outlets always looking to sensationalise(sp?) when Alot of these problems don't actually
Exist
As an aside I love Xmas and Xmas time don't like the fact the build up has already started so early think it kills the magic a little bit
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02-11-2016 07:59 PM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The biggest problem comes from the atheist community who seem to want to take any sort of religious meaning out of Christmas, apparently in fear of offending the aforementioned people of ethnic minorities, when the truth is they are actually happy to enjoy the Christmas period with their friends.
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02-11-2016 12:04 PM #14
We're gonna have to win the war on poppies before we can move on to the Christmas offensive.
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02-11-2016 01:00 PM #15This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Would I be right in saying they don't do poppies in Germany for armistice day?There is no such thing as too much yarn, just not enough time.
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02-11-2016 01:15 PM #17
For clarity my original post was meant to be light hearted.
Happy Winterval to one and all.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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16-12-2016 07:50 AM #19
Didn't Christians originally "steal' Christmas Day from the Pagans though?
Fwiw, it's reckoned that Jesus was born around September/October as that was when records show the census was.
Just sayin', like.
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16-12-2016 01:12 PM #20This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It's actually the celebration of the Incarnation of Christ - the Word of God made flesh - rather than a birthday party. The Christian belief that the God Who created the material world entered that world in order to redeem that world, rather than the birth itself.
Since many members of the early Church were either indentured servants or slaves - who couldn't 'get off work' - it probably seemed sensible to hold the Christian celebration at a time when everyone else was celebrating. The Saturnalia was a time of year when normal rules rather went by the board.
The whole season suffers from an overlay of Victorian sentimentality ('See, amid the winter's snow' sort of stuff) and modern materialism (Black Fridays and Boxing Day sales).
There's nothing at all wrong with having a cheer-up time in midwinter whatever your beliefs.
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16-12-2016 01:36 PM #21This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I'm no Christian (or Muslim, Jew, Buddist etc etc) and there are elements - specifically the latter that you mention - that do my nut in about Xmas in the UK, but if everyone (and most are tbf) were a bit more " a man's a man for aw that" in their approach at this time of year (and indeed the rest of the time as well) and just occupy themselves with spending time (not necessarily oodles of ££££) with loved ones and friends and appreciate how bloody lucky they are to be able to do so in the warmth of their own home Xmas would be a much nicer experience for all concerned.
Probably won't happen though - SPEND SPEND SPEND
I'll be waking up on Xmas morning (ideally next to the wife assuming things don't go seriously west on Xmas Eve) in the French Alps then going skiing - lovely.
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16-12-2016 06:39 PM #23This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Well, safe journeys and a really good holiday to you both.
BTW - "a man's a man for a' that" comes next month. JANUARY, not December ...
That's the fat guys in ill-fitting kilts misquoting their 'national bard' and getting legless and chucking up half-digested haggis, IIRC.
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16-12-2016 09:19 PM #24
Nothing at all wrong with whole families together for a couple of days. Eating, drinking and entertaining themselves.
I am looking forward to going to the Xmas Eve game with my oldest who doesn't get to many games. Then food with whole family up town and all heading back to the family home for a day of relaxation together on the 25th. No doubt with some board games.
Might head over with my two boys to East End Park on Boxing Day.
Yes there will be presents exchanged. But not overboard. Just a nice relaxing time together.
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17-12-2016 08:29 AM #27
On the religious debate, I discovered while researching my family tree that my great-grandparents were members of the Free Church of Scotland. They didn't (and as the United Free Church I think still don't) celebrate Christmas and Great-Granny and Great-Granpa were married on 25 December 1885. My guess is that this was so that they could have a celebration without offending the Church (put up an anniversary tree, anniversary goose for dinner etc).
As a tragic footnote their son (my Great-Uncle) was killed at Gallipoli on 25 December 1915 - their 30th wedding anniversary.
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