1: Posted by: Feòrag | November 7, 2005 11:32 AM

I don't know. I think it's about time that Christians stopped pretending the festivities had anything to do with their religion and let the rest of us get on with celebrating the winter solstice by eating, drinking and being merry.

Only a few extremist Protestants seem to have noticed, and are starting to give it the Hallowe'en treatment.

2: Posted by: drieux just drieux | November 7, 2005 3:52 PM

NO! NO! NO!!!!!

The argument from intelligent design DEMANDS the Divinity of Dubya, so this year we should all patriotically support Putting the Dubya back into Wmas - or those Evil Satanic Al-Qaeda Gay Homosexual Zombie Cyborgs Piloting Iraqi Flying Saucers will return to impose excessive governmental regulation of the market!!!!

Ok, so It sorta worries me that I hav cthulhu and the divinity of Dubya working in the same reality space....

How exactly is one of them not like the other of them????

3: Posted by: Feòrag | November 7, 2005 5:32 PM

Cthulhu is reliable. You know where you stand with Cthulhu i.e. you will be driven insane and eaten in the end. Cthulhu makes no promises as to when He will eat you, but you know it will happen. And Cthulhu is cuter due to tentacles.

4: Posted by: Thomas Ware | November 7, 2005 11:43 PM

This year out here on The High Desert the politically correct have finally gotten around to petitioning the powers-that-be to change the name of The Christmas Parade to something a little more freindly to those of us who, for example, lace deer antlers to our heads in vain attempts at impersonation of the ever viril Forest Man (one day that's 'gonna score me a woman, I'm sure of it!). Jeez, it's been named such for a hundred years now and it hasn't stopped me yet! I guess they want me to be in it, rather than standing to the side (with deer antlers - a real nice little six point rake, my first deer thirty-five years ago - laced to my head) thumbing my nose and laughing my gluet off.

5: Posted by: Francois Tremblay | November 8, 2005 11:11 AM

Pagan Prattle, I'm not sure what the point of your comment is. "Christmas" as we know it IS the product of the actions of writers and corporations, not of Christian propaganda. Until those actions were taken, Christians were widely against Christmas. Now they take the mantle of Christmas as if it belongs to them, as they've done to "pagan" religions in history. So by encouraging the use of the word "Christmas", you are in fact encouraging a pious lie.

6: Posted by: Feòrag | November 8, 2005 3:09 PM

So I'm doing some Christians a service, by noting their hypocrisy, and we know what Jesus had to say about hypocrites in the Big Book of Fairy Tales.

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