The big problem here is Christianity and Shopping encroaching on each other. I mean, we celebrate each and every religious holiday by being exhorted to spend a few hundred more dollars at the local mall.
Oh, and I think that if God created the universe, and Jesus is the human incarnation of God, I doubt baby Jesus would be scared by a few mere sparklers. 
The big problem here is Christianity and Shopping encroaching on each other. I mean, we celebrate each and every religious holiday by being exhorted to spend a few hundred more dollars at the local mall.
Oh, and I think that if God created the universe, and Jesus is the human incarnation of God, I doubt baby Jesus would be scared by a few mere sparklers.
The big problem here is Christianity and Shopping encroaching on each other. I mean, we celebrate each and every religious holiday by being exhorted to spend a few hundred more dollars at the local mall.
Oh, and I think that if God created the universe, and Jesus is the human incarnation of God, I doubt baby Jesus would be scared by a few mere sparklers.
Triple Post! Woo! New record!
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C’mon, people! It’s right there in the national anthem:
And the rockets red glare, Christ bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled Jesus yet wave,
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave."
You lousy commies.
So was America lost by being chased in a limo by the paprazzi, or was Diana lost through an eight year war and the Treaty of Paris? The things they don’t teach you in public schools…
Eve, you’re just saying that because you live in the land God himself wouldn’t set foot in: New Jersey.
Well, I’M not going to be the one to change his swaddling clothes. No siree. Nope. No, I don’t like it. That I don’t.
BooBoo316, I feel ashamed sometimes, too. (About fellow Christians, not about crap, or sparklers.)
As for the sparklers, I think Baby Jesus could have whipped out a fire-in-the-sky number and made his own heavenly blend of fireworks if he wanted to.
But, honestly, who in their right mind doesn’t like SPARKLERS?! They’re pretty, and colorful, and shiny. They light up in the dark, they’re warm, and comforting…in that soothing, explosive way. grins I love Sparklers. I can’t wait for the fourth of July.
Actually, sparklers can be extremely dangerous. My mother has a cousin who was badly hurt by a sparkler, and my dad’s cousin lost part of his hand playing with firecrackers.
Hijack:
Just imagine, if baby Jesus had got hold of a sparkler and it killed him.
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You may have your thread back now.
Ahem… Sig line.
For what it’s worth: I’m a Christian, it’s something that’s extremely important to me.
We did celebrate the Fourth of July in church this week, complete with a pledge of allegiance and a reading from the Declaration of Independance instead of the Bible, and patriotic “hymns,” all of which gave me a very strong desire to stand up and yell,
“What the HECK (pardon my language) does Independence Day have to do with Jesus?”
Maybe we could all agree to have our displays of patriotism and our displays of faith in different places… I’d be just fine with that.
(Of course, “The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose”–The Merchant of Venice, Act I, Scene III)
Perhaps the LDS members will correct me if I’m in error, but doesn’t the Book of Mormon (I Nephi, IIRC) prophesy the Declaration of Independence, and wasn’t the land Bountiful (North America) supposed to be where God destined his new revelation to unfold? And I’m pretty sure that Joseph Smith said in D&C that when Jesus returned, it would be to the Temple in Kirtland, Ohio. So America IS God’s country!
He did NOT. Contemporary sources clearly indicate the first thing he uttered upon learning of the signing of the Treaty of Paris was “Hi Mom!”. When asked what he intended to do now that the colonies were an independent country, he said “I’m going to Disneyland, as soon as they build it.”
Yeah, but in the post-war interview after he was named Most Valuable General, he did say “Well, you know, everyone just gave it 110%–it was a team effort–and you know, I just feel that God was on our side.”
Oh, and regarding the Book of Nephi: I feel the Spirit of the LORD coming on me[sup]1[/sup]–He’s moving me to prophesy:
Behold! In the year ending in three zeroes shall the Sunshine State be visited by a plague of butterflies! I saw three who were named Chad: and one of them had dimples, and one was hanged, but the third was pregant: and the pregnant Chad gave birth to a bush. And the bloody Tennessean went before the Nine; but four were with him, and five were against him. And the golden crown went to the Prince of Texas, the scion of the slayer of Iraqis.
Indeed, the words of the LORD are wonderful.
[sub][sup]1[/sup]Get your mind out of the gutter.[/sub]
I’m just waiting for the 4th when the fireworks suddenly turn into fire and Brimstone.
So shut the fuck up, you Christhumping, shitsnorting , pissdrinking, cocksucking heathens. Your Mother was a hamster, and your Father was a human being.
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