Christmas is a charade': Pope says.....more....

[Tripper11]

REPUBLICANS ARE ABOUT TO LOSE THEIR SH*T – POPE FRANCIS CALLED CHRISTMAS A ‘CHARADE’ – READ WHY

Well, you knew it was coming. The annual Republican Orgy known as the “War on Christmas” is virtually an American tradition. Every year we hear about how Christmas is being supplanted by evil Liberals when every year it seems we spend more and more money we don’t have on garbage we don’t need in order to celebrate it. This year, however, shots are fired early and it is coming from someone you probably didn’t expect.

Pope Francis has come out railing against society for embracing Christmas and holding it in such a supposedly sacred regard while completely ignoring everything it stands for.

Pope Francis had some very strong and very true words for society (and we know he is including Republicans in this) when he gave his statement:

"Christmas is approaching. There will be lights, parties, Christmas trees and nativity scenes...it's all a charade"

http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/republicans-are-about-to-lose-their-sht-pope-francis-called-christmas-a-charade-read-why/

[RKP5637]

1. Christmas AKA $$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s and propaganda! n/t

[Arugula Latte]

2. And so is religion.

Well, really more of a giant grifting scam. I'd bet a huge portion of priests and other RCC poobahs don't actually believe that the Jesus mythology is "true."

[msongs]

3. the catholic charade deserves the other charade. like the song says, "Don't rain on my charade". oh

wait that was parade lol

[Doc_Technical]

4. No sher, shitlock

[NightWatcher]

5. So he's not a fan of the Starbucks coffee cups?

[Gormy Cuss]

6. Happy Holidays! n/t

[Rex]

7. Has Xmas Xpert Kelly been told yet?

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

8. It certainly is.

BTW, the Christmas music has started already. Not sure when it exactly it was, but I noticed about a week prior to Thanksgiving this year. They are playing Christmas music at Walmart. One of the local radio stations has already switched over to 24-7 Christmas music. Dunkin Donuts is totally decked out with Christmas decorations. No Thanksgiving decorations and that is supposed to be the holiday happening next week. It's like Thanksgiving doesn't even count as holiday. It is merely a prelude to Christmas.

[LiberalElite]

9. Heh. Forget about ye olde "Twelve Days of Christmas" now it's

more like seven weeks. I'm old enough to recall when none of this started until the day after Thanksgiving. Then and only then did all retail Hell break loose and the Musak playlist take a decidedly Christian turn. Now the chintzy perfume sets and mega-sized popcorn tins start appearing around Labor Day.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

11. LOL! I still haven't even gotten around to taking down my Halloween decorations yet.

It would be kind of funny to have up Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas decorations all at once. Put up a Christmas tree and decorate it with cobwebs, witches, skeletons, ghosts, pumpkins, turkeys, etc. Heck, put up some bunnies and shamrocks too. Maybe I should do that this year.

[LiberalElite]

12. I've wondered why they don't just

sell all that stuff all the time. Retail holiday creep has been a thing for years. Then we'd see Cadbury's Easter Eggs in November and Hershey's red & green kisses in April and jack'olanterns in July and red white n' blue July 4th stuff in January.

[eShirl]

16. Soon Thanksgiving will be known as "Black Friday Eve." n/t

[Yorktown]

10. Christmas is the celebration of the winter solstice

A festivity which far predates the birth of a semi hypothetical Mr Jesus.

So, yes, Francis, Christmas is a charade.

[davidn3600]

13. Wasnt Dec 25th originally a Pagan holiday?

[Art_from_Ark]

15. It is said that the early Christians adopted the date of the pagan holiday

so they wouldn't get fed to the lions for celebrating.

[eridani]

14. Probably the fundies will call it a War on Christmas n/t

[eShirl]

17. New tradition: playing Christmas Charades with the relatives.

[ucrdem]

18. It's a Pope Francis Christmas, Charlie Brown

[struggle4progress]

19. Christmas is actually a frightening holiday:

we hear how Joseph, learning his to-be-wife is somehow pregnant already, wants to ditch her but is told not to do that; we see the poor woman give birth in a barn; and then we learn they're all running for their lives because the king is a homicidal kook

Nothing is working out for those people: they're not good comfortable middle-class folk, with cozy lives that satisfy them -- that's for sure

[bklyncowgirl]

20. I believe that's the point, but don't say that out loud to the Christmas Warriors.

Wait till they hear the kings were really pagan or Zorastrian astrologers.

You've got a whole pastiche of old legends mixed up with some genuine history and possibly some real family memories. King Herod WAS a homicidal kook--as well as a brilliant urban planner. There probably a Roman census around the time of Jesus' birth, St. Luke in particular seemed to want to ground his story in easily verifiable reality and I've always liked the story of how Joseph was about to ditch Mary when she turned up pregnant but changed his mind (there are traditions that she was knocked up by a Roman soldier). Whether divinely inspired or not he does the right thing in the end and that's what counts. Hell, there my have even been a real star--It would be great if we had astronomical observations from the university of Alexandria to verify but those were all destroyed when the Christians torched the library.

The Christians decided to celebrate the birth of Jesus in December because that was the Roman feast of Saturnalia and a big hoopdedoo with gift giving, drinking and lots of fun. So, Christmas warriors, a happy "Io Saturnalia" to you. The crap you're all defending comes straight from the pagan holiday.

The story of the working class couple forced by an oppressive occupying power to travel when the woman is pregnant so she has to give birth in a stable and who then are forced to become refugees when the paranoid king decides to kill all baby boys is the real Christmas story.