Renaming Christmas

You can find them anywhere in western europe too (and I thought in a lot of places in the USA as well). Wtf..

 

you're answer is better then mine. it was the question that made no sense.

 

i can't even begin to imagine any place you might have spent those five years.

 

I can not even imagine he has bothered to find out the religious beliefs of every person he met in the last 5 years

 

No shortage of Christians in Brazil. No shortage of nuts either.

 

with robots that look like arnold schwartzeneger, of course

 

The politically correct version of Son of God is Righteous Dude

 

of course not, but then you don't have to bother that much most of the time. have a casual conversation with pretty much anyone, and it's only a matter of time before they talk about going to church, or praying, or some such thing.

i'm sure i've met more than one recent non-christian, but only one that has mentioned it. and about a million that have mentioned that they are christian.

 

and i'm equally sure you're estimated ratio is way off. even the assumptions you base it on are.

depending on where you live, most people don't really think that much about what they say they believe at all. most, when you get right down to it, are really just saying, shure, i'm whatever my parents were, whatever my friends are, whatever will get me by, making the least waves, wherever i happen to live. and most people who do that, aren't really thinking about it, but are doing so to get and keep a job, and or a mate.

if you lived where some other brand name belief were dominant, they'd just be calling themselves followers of that one. for the same reason.

that doesn't mean people actually believe in whatever that dominant belief might be. or even give a rat to actually know jack about it.

so while a majority of the people you meet, might call themselves christian, because that's the dominant belief where you live, an equally large or larger, overlapping majority, have likely never given a great deal of thought to what they think they know about ANY belief. followers of other beliefs and of no belief, more often then not, again for the sake of economic and social security, avoid attracting attention to the fact that they are.

this will be true of the followers of any minority belief, anywhere. even where, in aggregate, they constitute a majority.

when you live in a country where no one has ever been elected to its highest office without claiming affiliation with that one same system of belief, do you really think its rational to expect, everyone who doesn't affiliate themselves with it, to 'wear that on their sleeve' that they don't?

 

i suppose that's true. now that i think about it, it was back when i was in college that i actually met several people who weren't afraid to admit to not being christian. but then, college is like its own world.

 

Actually in this day and age, if you make yourself known enough Christmas will be all about your penis..

 

I just like the lights.

 

Enjoy the irony? Christian missionaries have banned hundreds of traditional ceremonies in countries around the globe.

 

It sometimes really sounds like you guys are living in the dark ages over there. Do you live near Topnotch by any chance (georgia I think) or is the whole country like this? And then to think that I am the one living in the old world

 

nowhere near him. i think part of the issue is that i've lived in small towns for a while. most people that aren't of a very specific type tend to move away from small towns as soon as they are able to.

plus, i work in a ymca. which has nothing to do with religion, but it did 150 years ago and it still technically has christian in the legal name, so the more religious people still tend to assume that we're a church. so i get to hear from them a lot.

 

lol are you even listening to yourself? Why would the UN want an earth based religion when patriarchal religions already enforce the idea that humans need rulers?

I live in geoegia's neighboring state and it is very religious in this region but I've met a lot of people who moved from other parts of the country and are also very religious. I dont know very many older people who are not Christians but I know a ton of people my age and younger. The times are a'changin

 

Because the current religions coincide (at least traditionally) with a system of morals, which are antithetical to what the rulers of this world want during a time of planned chaos and upheaval. Have a look at the media and what gets peddled these days to young children and teenagers. That is what the powers that be want people to mimic. Christianity played an important role when America was being built up as a superpower, but no longer serves its purpose and actually creates an obstacle for the agenda because they're starting to bring shit down. They especially want to destroy the family unit, and have largely succeeded in doing so. The family of the future will be the collective living captive under an all-powerful global state.

Christianity wasn't about enforcing the need for rulers until after it was hijacked by the powers behind the Vatican, which made Christianity into a sun religion and played a large role in making people subservient to authority figures who merely claimed to be representatives of God. The story of Jesus Christ before it was hijacked has everything to do with a person who went against the system and was crucified for doing so.

 

It is ironic, isn't it?

Maybe we can be doing christians a favor by renaming the holiday. Perhaps we could cover up their dirty history and find a way not to offend liberals at the same time! Get two birds stoned at once!

 

No decoration, I find tinsel very distractive.