Falwell’s right. I certainly won’t let the ACLU stop me from celebrating Christmas as it has been for much of the past 2000 years.
I’m going to get really liquored up, go over to my employers house, and demand he gives me more alchohol.
What can I say, I’m a traditionalist.
It’s beyond me why a drunken bacchanalia…a time for the lord of misrule…a holiday that owes it existence to the the fact that this is the this time of year that (in the corner of the world where it orginated) the crops are in, the hops have femented…there’s really nothing left to do but hope the sun comes back and have a party.
Or to put it another way I’m sick to death of this fight over Christmas. At least fight over Easter where you might have a point!
The next time I hear some fundie going on about how they’re being oppressed, I’m going to say, “Shh! You could be arrested for saying that!” in my best conspiratorial voice.
Worship Elmo? Heck, go to your local Wal*Mart (since I’m sure you avoid K-Mart on principle), and you can prostrate yourself before a whole aisle of the things.
If we all sincerely pray for Falwell to embrace true Christianity, maybe he will see the light, renounce his hatred of homosexuals, give his money to the poor, tell Pat Robertson to fuck off and die, publicly announce that he has been nothing but a cheap, hatemongering hustler, minister to the sick and weary, and just in general become a really good guy. Probably not, though.
…and it worked, he probably wouldn’t tell Pat to fuck off and die, but rather pray, counsel, and witness so that he might embrace true Christianity, see the light, renounce his hatred of homosexuals, give his money to the poor, publicly announce that he has been nothing but a cheap, hatemongering hustler, minister to the sick and weary, and just in general become a really good guy.
Don’t you have some other guy in the same industry of insulting and antagonising people? Whatsisface… Pat somebody. Robertson.
Okay, maybe your country doesn’t suck, but it sure isn’t what it used to be, it’s lost a lot of its charisma. What used to be what, though not as “great” a country as a lot of those living there claimed, was at least impressive and exciting, is now a sad shadow of its former self.
I am sorry to see it all happen to you guys, and so suddenly too.
In the good old days, we could challenge them to a showdown at high noon, or bushwhack them in the desert. It’s not allowed anymore. But, maybe we can talk them into moving to your copuntry. Then you country would suck instead of ours.
It’s hardly a new thing. The US has a long history of religious blow hards streaching back to 1776. Look at the prohibitionist, they were far more powerful then Falwell et. al., Today, the AFA (the organization mentioned in the article) starts boycott after boycott (Disney, Crest toothpaste, Volkswagen, Tide detergent, Clorox bleach, Pampers, MTV, Abercrombie & Fitch, K-Mart, Burger King, American Airlines and S.C. Johnson & Son, makers of Windex, Ziploc, Pledge, Glade, and Edge to quote an incomplete list) each less successful then the last. If anything, religious groups like this are far less powerful then they used to be, and I imagine that trend of thier weakining power will continue.
In the meantime, they are jamming the courts with their frivolous lawsuits.
The Falwell article was carried in our local paper. After reading it and ranting at my wife for ten minutes, I went to the letters section and had to laugh at a letter from someone who was complaining that she didn’t understand why there was such intolerance exhibited towards Christians.
I would like to see a pagan display in any city where a lawsuit of this nature is entertained. Right next to the Virgin Mary, there could be a homey little scene of drunken revelry and fornication. After all, fair is fair.
