Evil celebration?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-109341 4/Christmas-pathway-hell-Muslim-lawyers-extrao rdinary-rant-evil-celebration.html

<i.'Decorating the house, purchasing Christmas trees or having Christmas turkey meals are completely prohibited by Allah.

Perhaps any Muslims on here can tell us if this statement is in the Koran?

If our Christmas celebrations upset him so much, why don't he just sod off?

His family lives on �25,000-a-year benefit handout

Oh! I see, perhaps that is the reason?

[Quinlad]

Yeah, why don't he? I bet he don't even speak English proper.

[Gromit]

Can anyone tell me where Turkeys, Tinsel Decorations and Fir Trees appear in the Bible?

[DrFilth]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9QsBJecmdTg&feat ure=related



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[DrFilth]

this one is better


http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=34w8xqFz3eU



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[Quinlad]

Trust me, there are plenty of turkeys in this Book of Genesis.

http://www.amazon.com/Phil-Collins-Definitive- Ray-Coleman/dp/068486830X/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s =books&qid=1228925172&sr=1-4

[anotheoldgit]

Before you look any further Gromit, they don't. But they are all part of our Christmas celebrations.

[Quinlad]

AOG. Celebrating.

*Bad command or file name. Does not compute.*

[Gromit]

AOG

The Christian Festival of Christmas is under great threat, but not from mad clerics on the internet.

The threat to Christmas comes from the commercialisation and exploitation of this religious celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

Their aim is not to enrich our culture or underpin our faith, but make lots of money from us by selling us Crackers, Cards, Decorations, DVDs and bad CD compilations. All of which dilute the meaning of Christmas.

By buying a fir tree (a German custom introduced by Prince Albert) you are wrecking the Festival of Christmas far more than a nutter peddling is own rival nonsense.

[123everton]

I'm with Gromit on this, we do more to destroy Christmas and it's meaning than any Muslim cleric.

[QueenOfAmber]

A lot of things destroy Christmas....

BUT NOTHING DESTROYS THANKSGIVING! ;D

[Booldawg]

Trying to get hold of a Wii Fit was hell. Still, at least Woolies had the decency to go bust shortly before Chrimbo; Bonus, cheap presents!

[China Doll]

I think we should ban christmas.

It takes the attention away from my birthday.

[QueenOfAmber]

Even I (the American one) has to say no to that - that's a NO by the way!
Which is better:

Christmas or Thanksgiving?

(It will be interesting to see what British people think...)

[Quinlad]

Do you get TV shows featuring Noel Edmonds giving surprises to little children on Thanksgiving? No?

Well then.

[tigerlily11]

Neither Thanks Giving or Christmas. Neither one has much to do with anything really.

[B00]

The stocking on the fireplace in that picture AOG is gorgeous......

[THECORBYLOON]

I the Bible, it states

"Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe

They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."

So it seems that God would not approve of Christmas trees.

[birdie1971]

QueenOfAmber � �Christmas or Thanksgiving?�

Thanksgiving. Hmmm, let me think... the early Christian settlers had a good first harvest, then went on to exterminate the indigenous population of between 10 to 30 million Native Americans leaving the remaining ones scratching a living on the most worthless, lifeless pieces of land imaginable.

Thanksgiving - A celebration of the start of a campaign of genocide.

Not very Christian is it? What am I saying � it�s a perfect example of Christianity. Good will to all men, unless of course, you happen to be a Native American.

[anotheoldgit]

Get back into your wigwam, with your bottle of moonshine and stop moaning.

[VHG]

In fact what we call "Christmas" was already a pagan festival before it became Christmas.

When the Christian church wanted a festival to celebrate the birth of Jesus they realised that creating their own festival may be difficult.

So they hijacked what was already a time for celebration and just called it Christmas. Jesus was not, of course, born on Christmas day.

Can you imagine the pagans at that time, having a go at the Christians for getting rid of their pagan festival.

"The Christians, come over here, trying to stop our pagan festivals. We have had these festivals for years, and now they want us to start celebrating the life if some bloke called Jesus. Why cant they leave our festivals alone."