Can we please not

[DeoNaught]

so what good really comes out of christmas time?

well for stores... Money, Money, money money

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have an internet deo

what?

 

[Mnecraft368]

toy stores get more rip toys r us

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well for stores... Money, Money, money money

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what?

ur internet button in ur sig

 

[The Catboy]

I don't even celebrate the Christian Christmas, but I might just make 3 threads. Why? Because reasons!

 

[VinsCool]

I don't even celebrate the Christian Christmas, but I might just make 3 threads. Why? Because reasons!

We all know that Santa Claus doesn't exist anyway!

 

[Mnecraft368]

We all know that Santa Claus doesn't exist anyway!

wait really he doesnt

i dont think anybody knew that

 

[The Catboy]

We all know that Santa Claus doesn't exist anyway!

D: QQ
Why you do this?

 

[DeoNaught]

We all know that Santa Claus doesn't exist anyway!

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We all know that Santa Claus doesn't exist anyway!

MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE

 

[RevPokemon]

I don't even celebrate the Christian Christmas, but I might just make 3 threads. Why? Because reasons!

"Christian"? So you celebrate it in a secular sort of way with out all the religious stuff (like no church services or what not)?

We all know that Santa Claus doesn't exist anyway!

 

[mashers]

 

[Mnecraft368]

MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A LIE

i feel ya bud

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i should update my sig in the Christmas Noobs Spirit!

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one like = 1 vote yes

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brb making new sig

 

[The Catboy]

"Christian"? So you celebrate it in a secular sort of way with out all the religious stuff (like no church services or what not)?

I celebrate the original Pagan roots. It's basically the same thing, minus the Christianity.

 

[Mnecraft368]

ok there i made a christmas version of my sig

 

[DeoNaught]

I celebrate the original Pagan roots. It's basically the same thing, minus the Christianity.

actually the pagan version, is where you would Sacrifice a child, to a god, and then you would eat the child in a feast(usually more then one).
History... fun isn't it.

 

[mashers]

actually the pagan version, is where you would Sacrifice a child, to a god, and then you would eat the child in a feast(usually more then one).
History... fun isn't it.

I think most primitive, ritualistic traditions include an element of child sacrifice. That includes Christianity...

 

[osaka35]

I personally like boxing day, cheap candy day (nov 1st), and black friday. these are my holidays.

 

[DeoNaught]

I think most primitive, ritualistic traditions include an element of child sacrifice. That includes Christianity...

When did Christians Sacrifice children?

 

[mashers]

When did Christians Sacrifice children?

I didn't say Christians, I said Christianity. Christianity includes belief in the Bible, which includes several passages referring to murdering of children. For example:

Hosea 9:14
Numbers 5:11-21
Numbers 31:15-18


The very worst one I have found is Hosea 13:16:

The people of Samaria must bear their guilt,
because they have rebelled against their God.
They will fall by the sword;
their little ones will be dashed to the ground,
their pregnant women ripped open.

Another one where God commands the murder of children:

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.

Psalm 137:8-9 says that God will reward you for killing children by throwing them on rocks:

Daughter Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is the one who repays you
according to what you have done to us.
Happy is the one who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks

 

[osaka35]

I didn't say Christians, I said Christianity. Christianity includes belief in the Bible, which includes several passages referring to murdering of children.

Nothing makes you doubt a religion more than reading their religious text.

 

[mashers]

Nothing makes you doubt a religion more than reading their religious text.

I think many people would turn away from religion if they read their religious texts properly and actually took the time to think about what it means - i.e. what it is that the god of their religion is actually suggesting, or commanding, that they do in their daily lives.

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Ahh, New Testament Christianity also endorses child murder:

Matthew 15:4

For God said, 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.'

Matthew was certainly a Christian himself (in the sense of being a follower of Christ), so here we have evidence not only of the more ancient texts of Christianity endorsing this behaviour, but also of more modern (Jesus-era) Christians implying that it is god's will.


Whether there is evidence of any Christians actually doing it, I don't know. However, I'd like to know how the legal system would view such an act. I have a feeling that "I killed my child because he cursed me, and that's what God told me I should do about it" wouldn't work too well as a defence in a murder trial.

 

[Jack Daniels]

for the real monty python fans: