Your Tax Dollars At Work
Terri Whitehouse December 11th, 2007
H. Res. 847: Recognizing the importance of Christmas and the Christian faith, with NKY’s very own Rep. Geoff Davis signed on as cosponsor.
Your lesson: Christians rule and children drool.
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- Children , Christian Fundamentalism , Geoff Davis , Humor , wingnuttery
- Comments(2)
1) Have these fruitcakes ever heard of the first amendment: church and state are separate. That means that you can’t ram your religious beliefs down my throat.
2) December the 25th is not the birthday of christ, it was a pagan holiday, celebrating the solstice, ripped off by the church so they could ram their religious crap down the throats of the pagans.
They absolutely love to rewrite history.(and waste my tax dollars)
Bede:
During the sixth century Pope Gregory sent Saint Augustine to England to establish a church on the continental model. To facilitate the conversion, an attempt was made to reconcile the incoming doctrine with customs already in existence. Any pagan symbolism that did not positively clash with Christian doctrine was incorporated into the new faith. By building a church on a holy site, such as a chieftain’s barrow or tumulus, the missionaries attempted to discourage potential conflict. Some temples were converted into Christian churches—for example, a temple outside Canterbury became the Church of Saint Pancras. The terms in which the newly converted Anglo-Saxons interpreted the Christian religion were shaped by the tribal culture impregnated by the pagan beliefs of the old religion. Pope Gregory advised that Christian holy days should be near in date to the replaced pagan festivals. This mingling of Christianity and paganism is the reason why Easter is named after Eostra, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of the dawn, and why Christ’s birthday is celebrated on December 25—the date of the old midwinter festival commemorating the rebirth of the sun. The Yule logs, the woodland wreaths, the holy tree decorated with candles and shiny bright ribbons and tinsel, the holly and the mistletoe, all are relics of a pagan past. When, later, the Roman church was accused by the Eastern church of sun worship on December 25, we realize how difficult was the defense againt that change.