Comments on: The Reason for the Season http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html NIGHTTIME IS FOR DREAMING. DAYLIGHT IS FOR ACTION. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:09:52 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Jeanne Mouritsen http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42845 Jeanne Mouritsen Thu, 25 Dec 2008 12:52:04 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42845 I stumbled upon this website because I'm an insomniac spending the wee hours of Festivus waiting for my Christian family to wake up and dive into the presents. I really enjoyed all the entries, the first time I've been able to feel at home with fellow atheists, and I wish you all Happy Holidays and hope to read more here in the future. THANK YOU!!!!!!!! I stumbled upon this website because I'm an insomniac spending the wee hours of Festivus waiting for my Christian family to wake up and dive into the presents. I really enjoyed all the entries, the first time I've been able to feel at home with fellow atheists, and I wish you all Happy Holidays and hope to read more here in the future. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

]]> By: Steve Bowen http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42082 Steve Bowen Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:24:20 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42082 Just spent an interesting weekend with my youngest daughter. She is rehearsing for a school nativity, has just competed in a radio carol competition and like any nine year old is getting excited about xmas. However she also gave me a "history lesson" about Henry 8 and his cynical reasons for declaring England to be a protestant state on his divorce from Catherine of Aragon. "Religion's a load of rubbish when you think about it" was her final analysis. Just spent an interesting weekend with my youngest daughter. She is rehearsing for a school nativity, has just competed in a radio carol competition and like any nine year old is getting excited about xmas. However she also gave me a "history lesson" about Henry 8 and his cynical reasons for declaring England to be a protestant state on his divorce from Catherine of Aragon. "Religion's a load of rubbish when you think about it" was her final analysis.

]]> By: Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42079 Ebonmuse Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:54:11 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42079 I'll determine what is or is not acceptable behavior on my own site, Arch. Your input is not necessary. I'll determine what is or is not acceptable behavior on my own site, Arch. Your input is not necessary.

]]> By: Arch http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42078 Arch Sun, 07 Dec 2008 22:50:57 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42078 Ebon, If you are about kindness and treating people with respect, perhaps you should kick off the people who swear and make rude, sarcastic comments about people of faith. You are tolerating incredibly disrespectful things from some people. Ebon,
If you are about kindness and treating people with respect, perhaps you should kick off the people who swear and make rude, sarcastic comments about people of faith. You are tolerating incredibly disrespectful things from some people.

]]> By: goyo http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42076 goyo Sun, 07 Dec 2008 20:53:34 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42076 I just had a thought. Why didn't Jesus make the prophecy, "verily I say into you that one day the birth of the son of man will be celebrated throughout the world"? That would have been another fulfilled prophecy that the xtians could have pointed to as proof. But I guess he didn't think about it. I just had a thought. Why didn't Jesus make the prophecy, "verily I say into you that one day the birth of the son of man will be celebrated throughout the world"?
That would have been another fulfilled prophecy that the xtians could have pointed to as proof.
But I guess he didn't think about it.

]]> By: Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42064 Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:24:08 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-42064 The precise date December 25 was chosen because that was the birthday of Mithra, a Persian god who was very poular among the Romans and bears an uncanny resemblance to Christ. The precise date December 25 was chosen because that was the birthday of Mithra, a Persian god who was very poular among the Romans and bears an uncanny resemblance to Christ.

]]> By: djd http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-38459 djd Sat, 06 Sep 2008 20:19:37 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-38459 Since I won't leave well enough alone: <i>What about the drunken orgies?</i> Authorities are what our arg'ment lacks - what words might I dredge from the musty stacks? To quote the Bible would bring naught but dread, so let us refer to the Bard instead! <blockquote>'Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock: and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. ··· Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him, and it mars him; it sets him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him, and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him. </blockquote> -- <i>Macbeth</i>, Act II, scene 3 (I know my verses' measure may fall a little short, but what's more meet than couplets for Shakespearian retort?) Since I won't leave well enough alone:

What about the drunken orgies?

Authorities are what our arg'ment lacks - what words might I dredge from the musty stacks? To quote the Bible would bring naught but dread, so let us refer to the Bard instead!

'Faith sir, we were carousing till the
second cock: and drink, sir, is a great
provoker of three things.
···
Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
it provokes the desire, but it takes
away the performance: therefore, much drink
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
it makes him, and it mars him; it sets
him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,
and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and
not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him
in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.

-- Macbeth, Act II, scene 3

(I know my verses' measure may fall a little short, but what's more meet than couplets for Shakespearian retort?)

]]> By: Tommykey http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-11214 Tommykey Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:29:20 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-11214 <i>Though we have come far from our agrarian past, human society still resonates to the ancient agricultural rhythms that once determined the ebb and flow of our lives.</i> Even the calendar followed by our public schools is based upon a time when many children were needed during the summer to help with the harvesting of crops on the farms. Though we have come far from our agrarian past, human society still resonates to the ancient agricultural rhythms that once determined the ebb and flow of our lives.

Even the calendar followed by our public schools is based upon a time when many children were needed during the summer to help with the harvesting of crops on the farms.

]]> By: Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-11055 Ebonmuse Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:25:49 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-11055 In case anyone was wondering, Joe is now banned, and deservedly so. In case anyone was wondering, Joe is now banned, and deservedly so.

]]> By: Alex Weaver http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-10976 Alex Weaver Sat, 23 Dec 2006 07:26:06 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-10976 <blockquote>Christmas at the Thursdays: 1) Get up, light fire; 2) take dog for a walk; 3) get naked again, remaining so for rest of day; 4) eat 1 (one) box of Turtles(tm); 5) eat Traditional Christmas Lasagna. All interspersed with ridiculous amounts of sex. This marks our tenth year of such things.</blockquote> Die. ;(

Christmas at the Thursdays:

1) Get up, light fire;
2) take dog for a walk;
3) get naked again, remaining so for rest of day;
4) eat 1 (one) box of Turtles(tm);
5) eat Traditional Christmas Lasagna.

All interspersed with ridiculous amounts of sex. This marks our tenth year of such things.

Die. ;(

]]> By: Thursday http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-10975 Thursday Sat, 23 Dec 2006 06:05:21 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-10975 Christmas at the Thursdays: 1) Get up, light fire; 2) take dog for a walk; 3) get naked again, remaining so for rest of day; 4) eat 1 (one) box of Turtles(tm); 5) eat Traditional Christmas Lasagna. All interspersed with ridiculous amounts of sex. This marks our tenth year of such things. Long live Christmas Traditions! Christmas at the Thursdays:

1) Get up, light fire;
2) take dog for a walk;
3) get naked again, remaining so for rest of day;
4) eat 1 (one) box of Turtles(tm);
5) eat Traditional Christmas Lasagna.

All interspersed with ridiculous amounts of sex. This marks our tenth year of such things.

Long live Christmas Traditions!

]]> By: Ebonmuse http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-10974 Ebonmuse Sat, 23 Dec 2006 05:25:12 +0000 http://www.daylightatheism.org/2006/12/the-reason-for-the-season.html#comment-10974 Thanks... er... Mr. Slob. :) As for Joe: <blockquote>no matter what a christian does, they are automatically a bigot.</blockquote> Wrong. Again, you persist in these insulting and unfounded generalizations. I call religious people bigoted <i>when they do bigoted things</i>. Is that so hard to grasp? I have no quarrel with religious people who practice their faith in private without seeking to impose it on others. I don't even object to religious people who want to evangelize and argue the merits of their faith in public (although I reserve the right to disagree with them and explain why I do). The ones I <i>do</i> object to are the obnoxious, bigoted religious-right conservatives who think that their faith gives them the right to force their antiquated notions of behavior on others and act as if the existence of different beliefs is somehow offensive to them. <blockquote>YOU are the bigots. you have no tolerance for faith. all you want is for people to be brainwashed PC robots.</blockquote> So outspoken atheism is now the "politically correct" viewpoint? I think not. Some advice: I suggest you drop the right-wing talking points. They make no sense and they're not going to impress anyone on this site. Thanks... er... Mr. Slob. :)

As for Joe:

no matter what a christian does, they are automatically a bigot.

Wrong. Again, you persist in these insulting and unfounded generalizations. I call religious people bigoted when they do bigoted things. Is that so hard to grasp?

I have no quarrel with religious people who practice their faith in private without seeking to impose it on others. I don't even object to religious people who want to evangelize and argue the merits of their faith in public (although I reserve the right to disagree with them and explain why I do). The ones I do object to are the obnoxious, bigoted religious-right conservatives who think that their faith gives them the right to force their antiquated notions of behavior on others and act as if the existence of different beliefs is somehow offensive to them.

YOU are the bigots. you have no tolerance for faith. all you want is for people to be brainwashed PC robots.

So outspoken atheism is now the "politically correct" viewpoint? I think not. Some advice: I suggest you drop the right-wing talking points. They make no sense and they're not going to impress anyone on this site.

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