- You better watch out. There is a new combatant in the Christmas wars.
Ads proclaiming, "Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake," will appear on Washington, D.C., buses starting next week and running through December. The American Humanist Association unveiled the provocative $40,000 holiday ad campaign Tuesday.
In lifting lyrics from "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," the Washington-based group is wading into what has become a perennial debate over commercialism, religion in the public square and the meaning of Christmas.
"We are trying to reach our audience, and sometimes in order to reach an audience, everybody has to hear you," said Fred Edwords, spokesman for the humanist group. "Our reason for doing it during the holidays is there are an awful lot of agnostics, atheists and other types of non-theists who feel a little alone during the holidays because of its association with traditional religion."
I'm looking for Bill O'Reilly to highlight this tonight on The Factor and starting out his faux "War On Christmas" schtick with a bang.
The interesting part of this whole ad campaign is that it highlights, quite effectively, that Christ is one of the last things that most people think about during Christmas.
Our consumerist culture has us identifying more with a fat man in a suit than God.
If we want to really get to the root of where Christmas comes from, God has about as much to do with it as Easter Eggs have to do with Jesus' resurrection. And still, every Easter we send the kids out with baskets to find hidden eggs and say "don't forget that Jesus died for you".
I think Eddie Izzard can sort this one out. The Easter bit is about 3:00mins in
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Christmas is a pagan holiday, based on the Saturnalia, a Roman orgy of food, wine, and sex. There is nothing Christian about Christmas.
I love it when falafel man gets so upset over his favorite pagan holiday.
Eddie is a genius.
"Cake or death?"
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