WarOnXMas
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- scarabin0
people can operate on whatever operating system they choose. sure, you might just be scotch-taping bits of your reality with implausible fairy tales, but whatever, as long as you function. no sense in trying to outlaw shitty operating systems just because they're shitty.
i mean, windows is still around.
OH SNAP
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- Thanks Albums... why don't my Facebook links work any more?!?!bobkat
- < And this...bobkat
- gay atheists .. LOLautoflavour
- ukit20
How Did America's Founding Fathers Feel About Christmas?
The fact is, Christmas was nothing special to our nation's Founding Fathers. The U.S. government didn't even recognize Christmas as a holiday until 1870. Until then, Congress routinely met and conducted business on Christmas day. It was, in fact, just another workday.
Truth be told, Christmas was a totally different affair during the first century of America's history. It was far removed from today's holiday in which families gather and open presents around the Christmas tree.
So how did one celebrate Christmas back in those days? Well, typically, you might start off the day getting blindingly drunk. Then, you'd take to the streets and approach passer-by and demand money from them. If they refused, you'd beat them up. You might conclude the day by smashing some store windows or breaking into people's homes and stealing their food. Peruse a newspaper from the 1820s and you can routinely read of such chaotic yuletide lawlessness.
In the early part of the 19th century, Christmas was, as one historian once noted, "like a nightmarish cross between Halloween and a particularly violent, rowdy Mardi Gras." In fact, a massive Christmas riot in 1828 led to the formation of New York City's first police force.
Indeed, newspapers of the era are filled with disturbing accounts of what Christmas was really like in those days: widespread rioting, sexual assault, vandalism, drunkenness, street violence and general lawlessness. Most of these "traditions" were carried over from Europe, where, dating back to the Middle Ages, Christmas had been regarded by the wealthy classes as a safety valve for releasing the peasants' pent-up frustrations.
- So Christmas in the 1800s was pretty much like a Friday night out after work?!?!bobkat
- autoflavour0
- i dont care if thats circumcised or not..autoflavour
- Seems like your whipping it around.yurimon
- Haha love this.mathinc
- why is the paper crumpled?ohhhhhsnap
- that message was in a bottle, and it didn't even need onemonospaced
- yurimon, what the fuck are you even talking about? whipping what around? are you retarded or just stupidautoflavour
- i have a use for my penis.. i have no use for religionautoflavour
- monNom0
Every year in America, Christmas festivities begin with the annual stampede for xbox games at Walmart.
- utopian0
WarOnXMas > XMAS > The Irony <
- Atheism is an ism that sounds like a vd you get from banging a godless whore without rubbers.yurimon
- oh it's fantastic, you should actually take the time to research and read about it. Spoiler alert: long words ahead.mikotondria3
- godless whores aren't nearly as freaky as the religious ones.moldero
- lol.yurimon
- I researched it. turns out to be most hypocritical belief system. Give some slack to agnostics but otherwise. nopeyurimon
- It's not hypocritical.monospaced
- CyBrainX0
I thought Mr. Hanky solved this in the first season of South Park.
- BaskerviIle0
How is a crucifix relevant to christmas?
It makes sense at easter but not christmas.
I don't care what religious things people put up, but at least let them be relevant to the festival- "happy birthday little baby jesus...btw here's the instrument of torture you will die by"BaskerviIle
- Christ. Mass. It's a celebration for baby Jeebus. Crucifix is a symbol for his martyrdom. Duh.monospaced
- i_monk0
Why is it when the issue is gun control, you Yanks cling to the Bill of Rights as infallible, but when it comes to the separation of church and state, that amendment is irrelevant and anyone who brings it up is a terrorist?
- scarabin0
fuck christmas. seriously.
such a bullshit holiday