Leave it to the Catholic League and Billy-boy Donohue to act like a bunch of spoiled brats when confronted with the FACT that the Winter Solstice was celebrated for what it was LONG before Christians attempted to usurp it and label it "Christmas." It was Yule and Saturnalia LONG before their carpenter-turned-rabbi supposedly showed up, and they know it. Whether they want to admit to that or not, of course, remains another matter.
Just one more indicator of just how bad a loser religion can be.
I wonder what will happen to that cash hoard when Nasty Bill finally shuffles off this mortal coil. I think it is safe to bet that it won't be used to make life better for anyone who actually needs charity.
Jesus of Nazareth would literally be disgusted by the waste of money.
He'd also be disgusted by the orgiastic consumerism surrounding his birthday and would probably trash nativity sets and tell everyone that if they are going to buy shit to give their gifts to the poor.
Then Christians would beat and arrest him and throw him in jail.
OT: My coworker, who voted for Trump, I believe, is going to Nigeria in February to bring his wife and newborn son to the States. Even though he's a naturalized citizen, I'm wondering if he'll be back in March.
Did anyone else notice the full name across the undesigned billboard? Catholic League for "Religious and Civil Rights". When has Bill or Catholics in general been in favor of Civil Rights?
If Christianity as outlined in the bible has EVER been about human or individual rights, it's news to me. What they HAVE been about, more than anything else, is about human obligations to Yahweh, most specifically how to cootchie-coo him just right so he doesn't torture you forever.
I’ve long been astonished that Christians can claim with a straight face that, yes, the Yahweh of the Old Testament was a petty, vengeful, murderous jerk, but that everything was set right by Jesus (according to the fanfic of his most devoted followers, known as the New Testament). But that’s got it exactly backwards.
Sure, if you did something that pïssed off the easily irritated Yahweh, he’d smite you where you stood, plus your family and half the innocent bystanders in the surrounding county as collateral damage. But that was it. Dead. Done. Finito. Period. Game Over. Sayonara. Hasta la vista. It wasn’t until Jesus came along that they invented the concept of “No no no, my friend, we’re gonna fry your sorry äss FOREVER! And not just for the actions you actually performed but for some of those naughty little THOTS you’ve been having!”
Think about it. Which of these 2 arrogant, flaming sadists was actually worse?
Yes, but.... It might be over for the offender but JHWH was still petty enough not to let the matter drop. The punishment could (would?) last for generations.
Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exodus 34:7
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Numbers 14:18
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Deuteronomy 5:9
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Numbers 14:18 seems to have got garbled in translation.
Compare that to the constitution which delineates the government’s roles, responsibilities and restrictions regarding the people. Nothing in the constitution prescribes or proscribes anything for the citizens and residents of the country. The Ten Commandments tell people how to live for God. The bill of rights tells the government how it to harm the people.
For these schmucks to keep saying either has anything to do with the other is ridonculous. They are at odds with each other.
To Baldo Bildo (sounds like a Tolkien character)...
The days of the week and months of the year are named after pagan gods and Romans. Every single one. Not a one is named after any character from your religion. Seems it's pagans that own not just the season but the entire calendar.
Bildo: "...the Christmas season is our season." Ummm Bill? Are you really trying to claim that only Catholics are allowed to celebrate Christmas? Or maybe you only want to restrict it to all christians, and no one else is allowed. There are lots of other holidays celebrated around the end of the year, as well. Are you suggesting that the only holiday that cshould be allowed is Christmas, and that only christians are allowed to have that?
All I see from you here is petty jealousy that people you don't like are having fun.
So, celebrating the night after which the days begin getting longer again, a turning point that marks hope for the new year and for the gradual return of life to the Earth (in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway), is a silly child's game...
...but magic airborne present-man and his herd of entirely wingless reindeer (they could've 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘺 made it Pegasi or griffons or fucking 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘴 or some other mythical creature with wings- just saying!) and a magic demigod baby who will one day rise from the dead to absolve the entire world of sin- these are totally mature and reasonable things to celebrate. Not, y'know, the 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 thing that 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 happens every single year because of axial tilt and orbital dynamics.
Go home, Billdo; you've had quite enough eggnog, I think.
The Netflix series, 'Midnight Mass,' is pretty entertaining. But even 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' is more fun than a Catholic ceremony. Also, less exercise; all that kneeling and bobbing.
I got roped into being a pallbearer for a roommate’s Catholic aunt’s funeral mass about 40 years ago. My very first Catholic service. All that kneeling and standing. And it was pretty obvious that most of the few people there had no idea what was going on. Then the incense. My own Lutheran upbringing was very short on showy ritual. It all seemed very gimmicky to me.
The birth of Christ couldn’t have happened in late December because there were baby sheep and lambs around. That means in the middle east it was either early spring or early fall. Sorry cancel culture Church of Pedophiles; you stole the Christmas celebration from the Pagan’s Winter Solstice Festival.
Not only is this "season" not exclusive to Catholics, there's also the fact that if Jesus actually existed, he was probably born in early spring, not December.
Leave it to the Catholic League and Billy-boy Donohue to act like a bunch of spoiled brats when confronted with the FACT that the Winter Solstice was celebrated for what it was LONG before Christians attempted to usurp it and label it "Christmas." It was Yule and Saturnalia LONG before their carpenter-turned-rabbi supposedly showed up, and they know it. Whether they want to admit to that or not, of course, remains another matter.
Just one more indicator of just how bad a loser religion can be.
I wonder what will happen to that cash hoard when Nasty Bill finally shuffles off this mortal coil. I think it is safe to bet that it won't be used to make life better for anyone who actually needs charity.
It COULD shrivel up and blow away (hopehopehope!), but some Bildo clone could also come in and continue the stupidity, too, I suppose.
Very well said!! 👏🏻👏🏻
International Pedophilia Conglomerate Puts Up Silly Billboard, Embarrasses Jesus.
"International Pedophilia Conglomerate" now that is creative.
Also ACCURATE!
GMTA!
"Accurate!"
We have decided to send these activists a lesson, reminding them that the Christmas season is our season. We rule. They lose.
How very christian. Also fuck you, you stole every single holiday you celebrate from another culture, like cultural vampires.
Cultural vampires, I like that. And it is true.
Me too.
Jesus of Nazareth would literally be disgusted by the waste of money.
He'd also be disgusted by the orgiastic consumerism surrounding his birthday and would probably trash nativity sets and tell everyone that if they are going to buy shit to give their gifts to the poor.
Then Christians would beat and arrest him and throw him in jail.
If he arrives in America for his second coming just watch how fast they kick his brown behind out of the country.
OT: My coworker, who voted for Trump, I believe, is going to Nigeria in February to bring his wife and newborn son to the States. Even though he's a naturalized citizen, I'm wondering if he'll be back in March.
Well, anything to “own the libs”, amirite?
And re-crucify him, because brown, Palestinian looking, radical...probably Hamas.
Consider: the FFRF put up a billboard with the following:
𝑅𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑦𝑡ℎ & 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑙𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠.
And Billy-boy and the Catholic League proceed to prove that very point with their garbage. What a concept!
Did anyone else notice the full name across the undesigned billboard? Catholic League for "Religious and Civil Rights". When has Bill or Catholics in general been in favor of Civil Rights?
When has the bible itself ever been in favor of civil rights? The book's deities demand unquestioning obedience and servitude...or else.
If Christianity as outlined in the bible has EVER been about human or individual rights, it's news to me. What they HAVE been about, more than anything else, is about human obligations to Yahweh, most specifically how to cootchie-coo him just right so he doesn't torture you forever.
Swell guy, eh? 🤢🤮
I’ve long been astonished that Christians can claim with a straight face that, yes, the Yahweh of the Old Testament was a petty, vengeful, murderous jerk, but that everything was set right by Jesus (according to the fanfic of his most devoted followers, known as the New Testament). But that’s got it exactly backwards.
Sure, if you did something that pïssed off the easily irritated Yahweh, he’d smite you where you stood, plus your family and half the innocent bystanders in the surrounding county as collateral damage. But that was it. Dead. Done. Finito. Period. Game Over. Sayonara. Hasta la vista. It wasn’t until Jesus came along that they invented the concept of “No no no, my friend, we’re gonna fry your sorry äss FOREVER! And not just for the actions you actually performed but for some of those naughty little THOTS you’ve been having!”
Think about it. Which of these 2 arrogant, flaming sadists was actually worse?
Yes.
Yes, but.... It might be over for the offender but JHWH was still petty enough not to let the matter drop. The punishment could (would?) last for generations.
Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exodus 34:7
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Numbers 14:18
The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.
Deuteronomy 5:9
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Numbers 14:18 seems to have got garbled in translation.
Compare that to the constitution which delineates the government’s roles, responsibilities and restrictions regarding the people. Nothing in the constitution prescribes or proscribes anything for the citizens and residents of the country. The Ten Commandments tell people how to live for God. The bill of rights tells the government how it to harm the people.
For these schmucks to keep saying either has anything to do with the other is ridonculous. They are at odds with each other.
Ridonculous is a common term in my household. Nice to see someone else use it.
But he's our loving Father. /s Heaven's version of CPS needs to get involved.
No CPS in heaven. The place is perfect! The guy with the anger management issues and the gambling problem who built the place and declared it so.
It should say "Religious and Selected Civil Rights" because they surely aren't referring to us with that line.
Catholic League for only the Catholic religious civil rights.
That’s better.
To Baldo Bildo (sounds like a Tolkien character)...
The days of the week and months of the year are named after pagan gods and Romans. Every single one. Not a one is named after any character from your religion. Seems it's pagans that own not just the season but the entire calendar.
Suck on that, you child predator advocate.
Ain't no planets named after their mythology either. Just sayin...
Shit, the bible makes no mention of planets anywhere within its pages, let alone galaxies, nebulae, pulsars, quasars, black holes, etc.
Kolob. You didn't say they had to be real. : )
Christmas is on Wednesday this year - modern day corruption of 'Odin's Day'. Let him chew on that for a while.
The Wotan clan owns that day.
Any relation to Wu Tang?
There's a wonderful episode of the animated Fox series, 'Krapopolis,' where the Greek gods get to meet up with the Norse gods.
Midgard Serpent: "I have all the genitals, and they are FRESH!"
Hilarious!
Bildo: "...the Christmas season is our season." Ummm Bill? Are you really trying to claim that only Catholics are allowed to celebrate Christmas? Or maybe you only want to restrict it to all christians, and no one else is allowed. There are lots of other holidays celebrated around the end of the year, as well. Are you suggesting that the only holiday that cshould be allowed is Christmas, and that only christians are allowed to have that?
All I see from you here is petty jealousy that people you don't like are having fun.
Put up a billboard with a running tally of abuse victims payouts.
Going to need a bigger billboard.
https://www.bishop-accountability.org/category/news-archive/abusetracker/
...and the bankruptcies to avoid those pay-outs.
So, celebrating the night after which the days begin getting longer again, a turning point that marks hope for the new year and for the gradual return of life to the Earth (in the Northern Hemisphere, anyway), is a silly child's game...
...but magic airborne present-man and his herd of entirely wingless reindeer (they could've 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘺 made it Pegasi or griffons or fucking 𝘥𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘴 or some other mythical creature with wings- just saying!) and a magic demigod baby who will one day rise from the dead to absolve the entire world of sin- these are totally mature and reasonable things to celebrate. Not, y'know, the 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 thing that 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺, 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 happens every single year because of axial tilt and orbital dynamics.
Go home, Billdo; you've had quite enough eggnog, I think.
Sin is a concept used by religious superstitionss to pound hatred into the hearts and minds of its followers.
Pagan/NeoPagan Winter Solstice celebrations are way more fun than Catholic midnight mass.
Anything is more fun than a Catholic mass.
The Netflix series, 'Midnight Mass,' is pretty entertaining. But even 'Plan 9 From Outer Space' is more fun than a Catholic ceremony. Also, less exercise; all that kneeling and bobbing.
Kneel and bob can be fun.
Neil and Bob are party animals.
🎶Sweet Caroline 🎶
🎵Ba ba baaa🎵
Unless it gets in your eye.
It's all fun and games until...
I got roped into being a pallbearer for a roommate’s Catholic aunt’s funeral mass about 40 years ago. My very first Catholic service. All that kneeling and standing. And it was pretty obvious that most of the few people there had no idea what was going on. Then the incense. My own Lutheran upbringing was very short on showy ritual. It all seemed very gimmicky to me.
Saturnalia orgies too.
The birth of Christ couldn’t have happened in late December because there were baby sheep and lambs around. That means in the middle east it was either early spring or early fall. Sorry cancel culture Church of Pedophiles; you stole the Christmas celebration from the Pagan’s Winter Solstice Festival.
Changed SUN to son.
Farm kid here, thank you! Fucking idiots.
F*cking YUCK. These assholes are likely emboldened by Trump 2.0 and want to rub their Christian Nationalism in our faces. They suck on so many levels.
[Bill] boards don't hit back.
-- Bruce Lee?!? 😁
But we do ... WITH THE FACTS!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t0t-lG0L1k
Not only is this "season" not exclusive to Catholics, there's also the fact that if Jesus actually existed, he was probably born in early spring, not December.
I guess my Christmas ham is just a regular ham.
It was never a Solstices ham.
I ham what I ham and that's all what I ham.
We're having yams, too.
And later you should closely inspect some gams.
If it’s their season then I expect them to shovel the snow.