Okay, it makes sense now, co-opting non-religious candy canes and insisting they’re part of the Christian tradition.
Especially since this is the same community that, in past years, has exhorted us to remember that on the 4th of July, Jesus is our true patriot and should be honored first.
I like the axial tilt thing, too!
elfbabe is home for the holidays, I’ll coerce her into going into town to get a photo! Maybe we’ll send it to jesusoftheweek.
I’m with you on the :rolleyes:.
I even started a thread about my neighbors and their lighted Christmas crosses last year.
What I failed to mention in that thread were the folks who put a giant (and I do mean huuuge) cross of white lights on the down slope of their roof. It doesn’t look at all festive. To me, it just looks like they are afraid that folks in low-flying aircraft won’t know that they are Christian otherwise.
Thank you. This just made my day.
Thanks to elfbabe, a photo may be found here.
I like the gifts piled at the base of the cross, just to emphasize that Christmas is about God sacrificing His Son for our sins, and not about spending lots of money on electronic gadgets at Best Buy for the kiddies.
Errrrrr…
What ever you do, don’t look at the scourged Jesus.
It’s like Jesus and a candy cane got mixed in a blender.
Ooh, there are even presents under the Christmas cross. How biconfessional.
So, you’re saying that Jesus was a “switch hitter”? 
That reminds me of a picture I just saw on myspace. You have to scroll down to the center of the page to see it.
I’m sure the Mother of Christ will be pleased to know her traditional place of lamentation at the foot of the cross has been userped by some empty yet attractive packages.
Thank elfbabe for running the fools errand with the camera.
Thanks, Qadgop, and elfbabe. IMNSHO, it’s the presents at the base of the cross that really take the image from the realm of :rolleyes: and into :smack:.
This was legend of the candy cane:
http://www.noelnoelnoel.com/trad/candycane.html
It seems less plausible than the pretzel story:
http://oh.essortment.com/pretzelhistory_raxn.htm
Honestly not sure about their origins or if this is just some fantasy pushed on me in my youth. Another one that was pushed was the idea that the christmas tree was a symbol for everlasting life (Evergreen), but that seems to conflict with the idea that the christmas tree covered with decorations as some symbol of the tree in the garden of eden. It would be nice if some of the religious elements that are co-opting other cultural symbols and changing their meanings would agree on what the supposed myth is supposed to be.
LOL, both elfbabe and I missed noticing the presents at the base of the cross!!
They’re part of the Passion of Christ. In addition to crowning him with thorns and
increasing his thirst with vinegar, they taunted him with presents he couldn’t reach.
Yeah, but if you take a close look, those packages are filled with nothing but air. Not the kind of present that I would want!
Those fiends!
I think of him as hedging his bets.
It’s funny to think that in a few years you’ll have the weird people explaining how “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Riendeer” is actually a secret Christian metaphor.
I’m a Christian and I’m embarrassed by that stuff.
I actually almost did a spit-take when I saw this one.
I cannot believe that they’re trying to get $414 + $73 s/h for the scourged and bloodied Jesus. Does it cheapen my faith that the spendthrift in me would just as soon buy a regular Jesus and decorate it myself?
“Kids! Time to decorate Jesus!!”