Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Worst Kind of Heresy

State Rep. Steve Farley says "to involve machine guns and Santa in a celebration in the birth of Jesus Christ is the worst kind of heresy I can imagine."[More]
Says the collectivist who swore an oath and then "proposed an unsuccessful ban on large-capacity gun magazines"...

[Via Smiley Starfish]
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5 comments:

  1. Ed11/30/2011 2:45 PM

    Gee. It all depends on your point of view and your culture. Christmas is basically a co-opted winter solstice pagan holiday transformed from the practices of several ancient cultures:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice

    http://www.goodnewsaboutgod.com/studies/holidays2.htm

    http://www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/SolsticeArticle.html

    http://www.religioustolerance.org/winter_solstice.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mithraic_mysteries

    Happy Holidays!

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  2. Anonymous11/30/2011 4:11 PM

    You forgot Yule:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule

    Wassail!
    Freywulf Welanding

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  3. Ned11/30/2011 5:14 PM

    The image of Santa has been used to hawk every imaginable type of product - with few complaints. Why wouldn't a gun store do the same - and why would pantie-wetter Farley get so "up in arms" over this?

    Does Farley object when "Santa" is used to sell automobiles or video games?

    His whining would be more believable if he has some history of vocally promoting "putting Christ back in Christmas," and objected to images of Santa and Christmas consumerism in general.

    Hoplophobes like Farley using any excuse to whine and cry about those awful guns is getting awfully tiresome. Hopefully Farley just used up a few more of his precious 15 minutes of fame.

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  4. Ed11/30/2011 7:14 PM

    And then you have those who are horrified when people use the term "X-mas" as omitting "Christ" from the holiday when they do not understand that 'X' is the first letter that sounds like "kh" of the Greek spelling of "Khristos".
    Many use the symbol of Christ that appears like a 'P' superimposed on a 'X', where the 'P' is the Greek letter "rho", equivalent to the Latin 'r', the first two letters of "Khristos".

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  5. Chas12/01/2011 6:03 PM

    The celebration of American freedom is appropriate all year-round.

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