Christmas Jerry Falwell Style

[cappuccina]

www.buynothingchristmas.org

 

[dakini]

Steve Colbert's brother and sister in law just bought a house down the road from me. LOL Im waiting for Steve to show up and visit. His last name is really pronounced Colbert with out the french twist.

Hey Tybee, what a hoot!!!!

Keep those Christmas dolphins and Santa sleighs comin'!

"Jerry Falwell, like Christmas fruitcake, is one of those fixtures Americans either love or hate. No need to debate the ingredients"

"Miiltant christianity strikes many as an oxymoron. To most Christians, Christ’s birth was a gift, one nobody need be forced to open."

http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=96139&ran=233887

 

[Maral]

I wonder how O'Reilly will spin this one. Now some churches are taking Christ out of Christmas.

Link

Some Megachurches Closing for Christmas

By RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer Tue Dec 6,10:57 PM ET

This Christmas, no prayers will be said in several megachurches around the country. Even though the holiday falls this year on a Sunday, when churches normally host thousands for worship, pastors are canceling services, anticipating low attendance on what they call a family day.

Critics within the evangelical community, more accustomed to doing battle with department stores and public schools over keeping religion in Christmas, are stunned by the shutdown.

It is almost unheard of for a Christian church to cancel services on a Sunday, and opponents of the closures are accusing these congregations of bowing to secular culture.

"This is a consumer mentality at work: `Let's not impose the church on people. Let's not make church in any way inconvenient,'" said David Wells, professor of history and systematic theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, a leading evangelical school in Hamilton, Mass. "I think what this does is feed into the individualism that is found throughout American culture, where everyone does their own thing."

 

[Mabel]

"I think what this does is feed into the individualism that is found throughout American culture, where everyone does their own thing."

Oh horror of all horrors. Not individualism! We should all be the same, we should all believe in the same things, we should never question or doubt our leaders. We should all wear Burqas and carry our prayer rugs with us. It should be a law that we must drop to our knees and pray every 4 hours around the clock. We should all move to Iraq!

 

[reb]

cappucina,, that link is awesome. thanks for sharing it.. and i just love the "catalog".... !!!! LOL!!

actually i started my own "buy nothing christmas" movement years ago, and everyone called me scrooge. but of course, i was just ahead of my time... ha ha ha.

i'm glad people are finally standing up to the force of capitalistic greed that hold us hostage, bullies us, stresses us out, demands we give it all our money, and has ruined this holiday.

i for one refuse to go into stores or watch TV, and even limit my time at the grocery store (and wear my ipod while in the store to drown out the endless sickening xmas music)-- during the entire month of december...!

 

[IrishMist]

Cindy Willison, a spokeswoman for the evangelical Southland Christian Church said:

"We believe that you worship every day of the week, not just on a weekend, and you don't have to be in a church building to worship."

Finally! I agree with an evangelical! I knew it would happen someday...

Actually, I'm really surprised by all of this. The church will be closed on Christmas? :waitasec:

 

[Nova]

Steve Colbert's brother and sister in law just bought a house down the road from me. LOL Im waiting for Steve to show up and visit. His last name is really pronounced Colbert with out the french twist.

Why, just last night I was wondering what Colbert would be like in person. I don't usually care about meeting celebrities, but the workings of his mind totally crack me up.

I hope you will run into him someday and tell us all about it.

 

[Nova]

Cindy Willison, a spokeswoman for the evangelical Southland Christian Church said:

"We believe that you worship every day of the week, not just on a weekend, and you don't have to be in a church building to worship."

Finally! I agree with an evangelical! I knew it would happen someday...

Actually, I'm really surprised by all of this. The church will be closed on Christmas? :waitasec:

I'm shocked, myself. Obviously, I haven't been to church in awhile. But we would never have been allowed to miss church for presents when I was a kid.

 

[dakini]

Of course, the “war on Christmas” it is totally manufactured. There is no Jewish, or other non-Christian group, that campaigns to ban the term “Merry Christmas.”
The whole issue was invented by the far right to divide Americans from one another, at Christmastime no less. As the Christmas warriors probably know, the reason businesses have adopted the term “the holidays” in place of Christmas is that Christmas is one day, December 25th. “The holidays” suggests a period that runs from Thanksgiving through New Year’s, more time for shopping and exchanging. Anti-Christmas animus is a myth.
But that does not mean that the “war on Christmas” brouhaha is not threatening to Jews. Long before there was awareness that Muslims or Hindus lived in the United States, there was an awareness that Jews did. And, in the wake of World War II, Americans did, to their credit, begin acknowledging Jews and their traditions as part of the American fabric. That is why schoolchildren in states where few Jews live sing “I Had a Little Dreidel” along with “The Christmas Song.”

Bill O’Reilly knows that and doesn’t like it one bit, as evidenced by his response to a Jewish caller last December who said that he found O’Reilly’s views on Christmas objectionable. O’Reilly told him to “move to Israel.”

It may also be why, when asked who the power was behind the “war on Christmas”, he answered, “Now the reason this is happening is because of the ACLU and George Soros, Peter Lewis. Just a reminder: George Soros and Peter Lewis are the far-left, secular progressive billionaires who have funded -- they pour money into the ACLU, they pour money into the smear websites, you know, they buy up a lot of the media time. And they basically want to change the country from a Christian-based philosophical country to a secular progressive country like they have in Western Europe.” Soros is a Holocaust survivor, in addition to being a billionaire who backs liberal causes. Lewis, also a billionaire, is a major donor to progressive and Jewish causes.
This week O’Reilly really went to town. After showing a clip from John Stewart’s late night show which extolled separation of church and state, O’Reilly said. “There you go, Jon Stewart….We know what he’s doing over there [on Comedy Central]. And it’s not just Stewart. You know, 90 percent of quote unquote entertainers are secular progressives…And a Merry Christmas to you John Stewart. As I said in my newspaper column this week, three wise men showed up to honor the baby Jesus way back when. And if corporate executives are not wise enough to emulate that, well, those of us who respect Christmas might look elsewhere.”

Presumably, O’Reilly knows that Stewart is Jewish. And that may be why a few days later he brought on Jewish comedian Jackie Mason, who endorsed everything O’Reilly said about the anti-Christmas war and added that he was founding a new organization called “Jews Against the Defamation of Christmas.” Mason, who recently refused to perform in a show because an Arab-American was on the bill and who makes little effort to disguise his racism (he once called Mayor Dinkins of New York a “fancy shvartze with a moustache”) said he was horrified that “if you want to say something good, talk about love and brotherhood by recognizing Christ as the savior…all this is not allowed.” He also joined O’Reilly in his denunciation of George Soros and others like him as “sick people” whose goal is to “destroy Christmas.”

http://www.israpundit.com/archives/2005/12/the_ugly_fox_ne.php

 

[Nova]

On The Daily Show, John Stewart played the O'Reilly segment. The "offending" Daily Show moment that had O'Reilly up in arms was clearly a joke. The studio audience was laughing so hard at O'Reilly, Stewart hardly had to say anything in response.

O'Reilly may be passing from ridiculous to merely sad.

(But Dakini is right that the implied anti-Semetism in all this is no joke.)