dartagnan wrote: But I think I now realize it has nothing to do with that at all. It is probably just an attempt by the secular progressives to remove God and Jesus whenever and however they can.
That seems like a stretch to me. There are plenty of atheists out there who have no problem taking the name of God in vain. Very few are so committed that they would avoid it just to avoid mention of these things.
Jesus Christ is my favorite exclamation when I'm frustrated, pissed, amazed, etc. It's a contender with sh** for my favorite expression.
My wife, of course, is less thrilled with it.
I'd bet a hefty sum that the reason for bleeping out references to deity is to appease those who get offended when others profane the name of their mythical god. They have no problem, apparently, with the violence, murder, mayhem, and sex, but apparently they're among the lesser 10 Commandments. God is a petty, jealous type as evidenced by the fact that a good chunk of the 10 Commandments are injunctions to show him the requisite amount of slobbering ass kissing obsequience.
God . . . "who mouths morals to other people and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, . . . and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites this poor, abused slave to worship him ..."
guy sajer wrote:I'd bet a hefty sum that the reason for bleeping out references to deity is to appease those who get offended when others profane the name of their mythical god. They have no problem, apparently, with the violence, murder, mayhem, and sex, but apparently they're among the lesser 10 Commandments. God is a petty, jealous type as evidenced by the fact that a good chunk of the 10 Commandments are injunctions to show him the requisite amount of slobbering ass kissing obsequience.
There you have it, and from the keyboards of two prophets.
In the [keyboards] of two or three [MDB prophets] shall every word be established.
edit: oops... I just went ectoplasmic!
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
God is a petty, jealous type as evidenced by the fact that a good chunk of the 10 Commandments are injunctions to show him the requisite amount of slobbering ass kissing obsequience.
I'd have to disagree with your characterization of God, guy. I think the people who recorded the Old Testament scriptures were petty, jealous and suffered from a case of chronic ethnocentrism.
There you have it, and from the keyboards of two prophets.
In the [keyboards] of two or three [MDB prophets] shall every word be established.
edit: oops... I just went ectoplasmic!
There you go, using big words that I don't understand, Trevor. ;-) I don't know why people insist on interrupting my reading of a thread by injecting 5 dollar words I have to go look up.
Jersey Girl wrote:There you go, using big words that I don't understand, Trevor. ;-) I don't know why people insist on interrupting my reading of a thread by injecting 5 dollar words I have to go look up.
Damn! So hard to hide my pretentious ways around here! ;-)
By the way, I learned that one from the August Fraternity of the Ghostbusters.
“I was hooked from the start,” Snoop Dogg said. “We talked about the purpose of life, played Mousetrap, and ate brownies. The kids thought it was off the hook, for real.”
Jersey Girl wrote:There you go, using big words that I don't understand, Trevor. ;-) I don't know why people insist on interrupting my reading of a thread by injecting 5 dollar words I have to go look up.
Damn! So hard to hide my pretentious ways around here! ;-)
By the way, I learned that one from the August Fraternity of the Ghostbusters.
Oh my GOSH! I was going to say it sounded like Ghostbusters! I didn't want to come off more stupid than I really am! Too funny!
It's always been a secular holiday for me. It is for my kids as well. My mother actually invited us to go to Church with her for some Christmas shindig a few days ago when we had already planned an outing to go see Santa. She scolded me with, "Well, it's a hard choice between Jesus and Santa, right?" I said, "Not really." :)
I decorate like a nutball, we do the cookies for santa, read the Night Before Christmas, turn out the lights, in the morning we'll have a glorious 15 minutes of frantic wrapping paper delirium, and then I'll collapse.
I decorate like a nutball, we do the cookies for santa, read the Night Before Christmas, turn out the lights, in the morning we'll have a glorious 15 minutes of frantic wrapping paper delirium, and then I'll collapse.
Enjoy them while they're young - they're what make Christmas magic. Boy, do I miss my kids being young on Christmas morning. I will never forget one Christmas, when my kids were around 5, 4, and 2, they all rushed into the living room Xmas morning and my oldest breathed in awe: "This PROVES that Santa is real! Mom and Dad could NEVER afford to buy all this!!" (well, he didn't know about credit cards back then)
I won't have that again until I'm a grandma, and I'm in no rush for that to happen, so in the meantime, Christmases are pretty quiet and boring with teenagers who mainly want/need money. :P
We hate to seem like we don’t trust every nut with a story, but there’s evidence we can point to, and dance while shouting taunting phrases.
I decorate like a nutball, we do the cookies for santa, read the Night Before Christmas, turn out the lights, in the morning we'll have a glorious 15 minutes of frantic wrapping paper delirium, and then I'll collapse.
Enjoy them while they're young - they're what make Christmas magic. Boy, do I miss my kids being young on Christmas morning. I will never forget one Christmas, when my kids were around 5, 4, and 2, they all rushed into the living room Xmas morning and my oldest breathed in awe: "This PROVES that Santa is real! Mom and Dad could NEVER afford to buy all this!!" (well, he didn't know about credit cards back then)
I won't have that again until I'm a grandma, and I'm in no rush for that to happen, so in the meantime, Christmases are pretty quiet and boring with teenagers who mainly want/need money. :P
Hah! That's so funny, beastie. That's how my kids know Santa is real too. All year I tell them that we can't afford things so they know the only way Christmas occurs is through the magic of Santa.
It is fun. It's especially delightful this year, for me. Little stress, lots of love, extra anticipation, and a wonderful sense of serenity. :)