“We believe, we believe, we believe . . .” ad nauseam. Truth NEVER requires belief, and believing a thing does not render it true. It simply does not matter how sincere the belief, or the number of people who believe it. I am convinced the religious right dreams of a world where everyone needs their permission for just about everything. I don't understand why anyone would want to participate in this event, but then I've never been a herd animal.
Predators like wolves and us form packs. Packs that protect their own, expand their hunting grounds, and if powerful enough drive out competing packs. Again a feature not a bug in the predator class. Atheist and religious fever dreams of societal control all lead to a world where everyone needs their permission for everything under the justification that it is all for the best. The Village prisoner Number Six replied to the offer of existing in a utopia: “I’ll take the next rocket to the moon.”
Amazing how scary a weather balloon can look with the right filmographer (?) Is that the right word?
When I saw that balloony white plastic sheet stretched over that man's face (I was probably four at the time), I had nightmares. A few weeks later I went to a friend's birthday, where her mom had tied a few white balloons to the pergola above the backyard picnic table. While I didn't freak out visibly or anything, I did make sure I chose a seat that wasn't directly underneath one of them.
A cinematographer would decide how to best capture the shot the director wants to be filmed. The director calls the shot. Patrick McGoohan, who played Number Six, was the creator and the main director of ‘The Prisoner’, so you could send your therapy bills to the McGoohan. I first viewed ‘The Prisoner’ when I was 14. The executions by the balloons still haunt me. I suppose safety and straight pins were banned by the Village.
Number Six: Has it ever occurred to you that you are just as much a prisoner as I am?
Number Two: Oh my dear chap, of course--I know too much. We're both lifers. Number Two: I am definitely an optimist. That's why it doesn't matter "who" Number One is. It doesn't matter which "side" runs the Village.
Number Six: It's run by one side or the other.
Number Two: Oh certainly, but both sides are becoming identical. What in fact has been created is an international community--perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they will see that "this" is the pattern for the future.
Number Six: The whole Earth as the Village?
Number Two: That is my hope. What's yours?
Number Six: I'd like to be the first man on the moon.
The herd instinct runs deep in the human species. I suspect it may have been part of our survival strategy. Our puny little ancestors survived by banding together.
I hope the local PBS station is able to withdraw its coverage of this parade. No public broadcasting station should participate in promoting hate and bigotry.
Isn't it typical, though, that a parade ostensibly to celebrate the birth of 'the prince of peace' is now promoting hatred, division and bigotry. You do you, christians. *insert facepalm*
Bigots gonna bigot. Let them. Doing it so publically that it garners national news attention so everyone can call them out for their bigotry can only hasten the decline of religion's importance to the people living there.
Should of just published the Nicene Creed instead of the Life Church and the River Community Church weirdo manifesto. Their parade is not about Christmas. Plus no throwing of the candy? I had the shocking pleasure of experiencing a Christmas parade in Aachen Germany. It was insane. More like the Wild Hunt with the police as part of the parade. The police blew whistles and threw firecrackers into the crowd. The copious cauldrons of gluhwein arrayed along the street kept the festivities merry.
Queer parades are the Best. Inclusivity towards all. These churches can do what they think is right on their property but to make it a city wide parade? Yet another straight only need apply event my rainbow colors and I won't be attending. To these churches? One thing I want to say you personally: 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Seriously all the fun groups should do their own parade on the same day. Betcha there’d be more people at that one. Make the theme Jeebus welcomed everyone.
Agreed, currently I'm being treated for prostate cancer with radiation. Hopefully it was detected early enough. Make sure when one gets blood tested to look at the PSA levels.
Zappa is missed, went a concert back in the late 70's, 3hrs of no stop music. IMO, one of the best concerts ever. "Don't eat the yellow snow".
This also disappoints me because I’ve been giggling at “Don we now our gay apparel” since I was a preteen, and I would have LOVED to see that theme in a parade!
(Idiots gotta idiot, making sure to cut out all the people who make a parade most entertaining…)
"don we now our gay apparel" is a line from a Christmas song and uses the original word "gay" to mean festive. Subsequently, "gay" has been used to describe, originally, homosexual men, but later pretty much any non-cisgendered person as a catchall term. So "don we all our gay apparel" can be used as reason to dress in drag. It is funny and mildly transgressive if you are a N.A. English-speaker.
When one wants to argue biblical marriages are between one cis man and one cis woman, they shouldn't start by quoting the OT. Several patriarchs were polygamous.
Solomon, third king of Israel (reigned c. 968–928 B.C.E.), is said to have had a harem that included 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kgs 11:3). His wives were to have included the daughter of Pharaoh, as well as women of Moabite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite origins (1 Kgs 7:8; 11:1).
It would have taken him more than 3 years to have sex with each one at a rate of one a day. Maybe he was into orgies and 3 somes. Such "moral" people. 🤣
I have a couple simple questions: just WHY did the town of Cookeville grant a permit for what amounted to a church parade in the first place? WHY would PBS actually consent to covering it? Has the Cookeville city government been so co-opted by those churches that they just rubber-stamp the permit for the parade, not having vetted the participants or their intentions?
I suppose the answer to all of this is that it's Tennessee ... and maybe that's the real shame.
Well, on the surface, Cookeville probably granted the permit because the churches paid the fee and filled out the application. Hopefully that process is religion neutral (though I am not holding my breath -- it IS Tennessee). As for the PBS coverage? Major event scheduled for a relatively slow news day. They said they thought it was the town putting it on and not the churches.
Cookeville is about halfway between Nashville and Knoxville on I 40, so, yeah. Tennessee.
PBS Tennessee it's not like PBS in other states, I suspect all PBS locals in the south are overly religious.
I live in West Tennessee and every night PBS has religious shit like the 700 Club and gospel. This is exactly why I refuse to buy the PBS passport for their other programming. I have donated to PBS in the past but I absolutely will not do that ever again, not since I moved down to Tennessee and see all their toxic religious garbage programming.
I lived in the Chicago area for 24 years before coming down here for a job- the PBS up there was secular, you would not find the 700 Club on PBS stations in Chicago.
Local PSB local stations are run by local leadership...... unfortunately this is the demographic of Tennessee , toxic christianity!!
Heathen's Greetings! If I understand it correctly, this annual end-of-the-year Parade of Myths (the bloody bastard hypocrites stole so many Pagan traditions and re-branded them as Christian that it should be called the Mish-Mash March of Mangled Misconceptions) is now being co-sponsored by the local Chamber of Christ and the Tennessee Jerks for Jesus to celebrate the exclusion of thinking individuals or anyone else who doesn't fit into their infinitesimally tiny definition of true blood-cult believer. All this in the state where the famous "Monkey Trial" was held and the unevolved monkeys won. Shame on them for being so ignorant and disrespectful to the real Reason for the Season... the Birth of Brian!
"But the bottom line is that because this event is now run by churches, it’s being defined by its bigotry and who the organizers want to exclude."
The parade is being defined by its Christian bigotry and who the Christian organizers want to exclude.
One of the things that bothered me for years way back when I was attending churches is the way they never seem to call each other on their reprehensible behavior. Now I understand that's the point; and the real reason for this is that most of 'em think that 'reprehensible behavior' is what their Jesus intended. The bigotry is part of the system as a feature; and most Christians honestly think it's a good thing.
This, then, is one of my ongoing criticisms of Christianity in particular and religion in general. Too often, some concept is practiced long enough it becomes comfortable, and the relative morality of the concept is never questioned because it comes from on high. That way lies madness and a powerful abrogation of personal responsibility that undermines human free will. Humanity cannot grow if it is always being held back by edicts from 'god' and never allowed to question or learn due to false limitations.
And to me? No amount of 'good deeds' done in the name of any 'god' is ever going to make up for the loss of potential that religion has cost humanity. The bigotry so often on display is just a reminder of the sort of damage religious people do with the endorsement of their 'god', and will continue to do whenever the opportunity presents itself.
The local PBS station is trying to not air the parade now because of the bigotry. Cue the organizers screaming "evil leftist media hates Christians" in 3...2...
The war on Halloween was declared late last century by fundamentalist Christian sects. For no good reason other than kids dressed up like witches, devils, and ghosts…oh my.
The xians lost that war. We could tell them that yule is a pagan celebratian too. Like all xian holidays, they, not surprisingly, ended up replacing an already existing holyday or festival.
UUUUUUUGGGGGHHHH!!!!! I so fucking HATE those! That is NOT what Halloween is about, FFS. I love its thoroughly heathen, ancient darkness, and I resent their efforts to sanitize it down to another bland, lifeless Jesus fest.
You fucking Christians do you, and quit trying to spoil the one fun holiday we have left.
Me too! Isn't it fun? I have costumes for witches, wenches, demons, flappers, gypsies and cats, plus a few others, and I keep buying more. My husband thinks I'm nuts. 🤪
I hear you, I especially love medieval fair stuff, I have one velvet dress complete with hoop-skirt. And the high French court wig like Marie Antoinette’s. I wore it to Mardi Gras and got interviewed by the local news! Fun times.
The only group ever to actually wage war on christmas were the puritans, whom the modern day far right fundagelicals like to believe they're descended from.
And that was was because the puritans knew christmas was a secular celebration.
So sad. And if Christian Nationalism gets control, this will be normal and will involve the government. Separation of church and state will be gone and more hate, discrimination and division will be the norm.
Plus I just saw an article where some legislators from somewhere are upset over falling teen birthrates due to the abortion pill. So, you want more teen pregnancies? Not fewer? OK, & we're the ones w/screwed up values/morals.
What else would you expect from people so invested in kiddie diddling that they block ANY attempt to outlaw child marriage? Give these NatCs the chance and graduation for young American women in the future will consist of marriage at 12 with nothing else to forward to but being bred to death by 35 or so.
Because they want them to remain poor - these babies are future factory workers, gas station clerks, chicken feather pluckers, farmhands, military cannon fodder.
For many years, the York City, Pennsylvania Halloween parade allowed a group of Christians to ride at the end of the parade with huge pictures of aborted fetuses. While it was not well received by the public who tried to shield their children from seeing these pictures, the city allowed it. Finally the parade was canceled for lack of funding was the official version. More likely due to these Christ bigots and the cities inability to find a legal way to exclude them.
With this Christmas parade, if PBS pulls out, then the Christ bigots will cry foul and that they are being persecuted. boo hoo boo hoo. Or is that ho ho ho ho ?
Also, if you can believe in one imaginary friend, I guess it's no problem to believe in Santa Claus and have him in your bigot parade.
Santa is a training god. The entity knows when you’re unconscious. It knows when you’re up and about. It knows what good or evil lurks in your heart and all your deeds. So, of course, be good for the sake of goodness, but somehow the or else has been dropped. In other cultures there are “bad cops” operating during the Christmas season. Krampus, Zwarte Piet, and other reformed boogeymen sought out the bad kids for punishment and removal from society. Gotta nip the budding Conduct Disorder kinders and cutdown on the adult free range psychopaths. The West created a moral hazard when we jettisoned the shadow Santa.
If PBS can't get out of covering the parade, perhaps instead of the usual saccharine "Aw, isn't that town's parade so charming" drivel, they could produce it as a documentary about this very controversy, with footage of the waving Santa and all the usual Christmas crap interspersed with interviews of the bigoted church organizers trying to rationalize their hate, the excluded LGBTQ+ group being friendly, decent, rational, funny, and just a little fabulous, and man-on-the-street interviews of town citizens both for and against the parade's unloving and exclusionary requirements.
Nothing but "we report, you decide" kind of journalism. Let the church sponsors embarrass themselves even worse.
“We believe, we believe, we believe . . .” ad nauseam. Truth NEVER requires belief, and believing a thing does not render it true. It simply does not matter how sincere the belief, or the number of people who believe it. I am convinced the religious right dreams of a world where everyone needs their permission for just about everything. I don't understand why anyone would want to participate in this event, but then I've never been a herd animal.
Predators like wolves and us form packs. Packs that protect their own, expand their hunting grounds, and if powerful enough drive out competing packs. Again a feature not a bug in the predator class. Atheist and religious fever dreams of societal control all lead to a world where everyone needs their permission for everything under the justification that it is all for the best. The Village prisoner Number Six replied to the offer of existing in a utopia: “I’ll take the next rocket to the moon.”
𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑, 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑒𝑑, 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑑, 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑑, 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑑, 𝑑𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑑, 𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑. 𝑀𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑤𝑛.
-- Patrick McGoohan as The Prisoner
To which I say: Hear-FUCKING-HEAR!!!
I'm not a number; I'm a free a man.
*derisive laughter*
The bouncy balloon guardian will suffocate that laugh.
Amazing how scary a weather balloon can look with the right filmographer (?) Is that the right word?
When I saw that balloony white plastic sheet stretched over that man's face (I was probably four at the time), I had nightmares. A few weeks later I went to a friend's birthday, where her mom had tied a few white balloons to the pergola above the backyard picnic table. While I didn't freak out visibly or anything, I did make sure I chose a seat that wasn't directly underneath one of them.
A cinematographer would decide how to best capture the shot the director wants to be filmed. The director calls the shot. Patrick McGoohan, who played Number Six, was the creator and the main director of ‘The Prisoner’, so you could send your therapy bills to the McGoohan. I first viewed ‘The Prisoner’ when I was 14. The executions by the balloons still haunt me. I suppose safety and straight pins were banned by the Village.
Be seeing you.
Number Six: Has it ever occurred to you that you are just as much a prisoner as I am?
Number Two: Oh my dear chap, of course--I know too much. We're both lifers. Number Two: I am definitely an optimist. That's why it doesn't matter "who" Number One is. It doesn't matter which "side" runs the Village.
Number Six: It's run by one side or the other.
Number Two: Oh certainly, but both sides are becoming identical. What in fact has been created is an international community--perfect blueprint for world order. When the sides facing each other suddenly realize that they're looking into a mirror, they will see that "this" is the pattern for the future.
Number Six: The whole Earth as the Village?
Number Two: That is my hope. What's yours?
Number Six: I'd like to be the first man on the moon.
The Prisoner - loved that show!
The herd instinct runs deep in the human species. I suspect it may have been part of our survival strategy. Our puny little ancestors survived by banding together.
Agreed, and belief is not evidence.
Authoritarians gonna dictate every aspect of your life. And every authoritarian system devolves to a far right hellhole eventually.
I hope the local PBS station is able to withdraw its coverage of this parade. No public broadcasting station should participate in promoting hate and bigotry.
Isn't it typical, though, that a parade ostensibly to celebrate the birth of 'the prince of peace' is now promoting hatred, division and bigotry. You do you, christians. *insert facepalm*
🤦♂️🤦♂️
Bigots gonna bigot. Let them. Doing it so publically that it garners national news attention so everyone can call them out for their bigotry can only hasten the decline of religion's importance to the people living there.
Should of just published the Nicene Creed instead of the Life Church and the River Community Church weirdo manifesto. Their parade is not about Christmas. Plus no throwing of the candy? I had the shocking pleasure of experiencing a Christmas parade in Aachen Germany. It was insane. More like the Wild Hunt with the police as part of the parade. The police blew whistles and threw firecrackers into the crowd. The copious cauldrons of gluhwein arrayed along the street kept the festivities merry.
Don't get me started on gluhwein! My experience comes from living in Wiesbaden.
I hope it rains.
Freezing rain and snow. May Santa look similar to Jack Torrence after an overnight stay in The Overlook maze.
"Heeeer's Santa!"
I'm imagining Santa with an axe hanging upside down out of the chimney flue. Kids do not wait up for any spirit invited or not.
It has most of the day.
I will pray for rain......🤣
Queer parades are the Best. Inclusivity towards all. These churches can do what they think is right on their property but to make it a city wide parade? Yet another straight only need apply event my rainbow colors and I won't be attending. To these churches? One thing I want to say you personally: 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
Seriously all the fun groups should do their own parade on the same day. Betcha there’d be more people at that one. Make the theme Jeebus welcomed everyone.
Great idea! Same day!
"church-run" Religion at its best. "Tax the churches" Frank Zappa - 1980
I love most of Frank Zappa's music. Too bad he went to the doctors far too late
Agreed, currently I'm being treated for prostate cancer with radiation. Hopefully it was detected early enough. Make sure when one gets blood tested to look at the PSA levels.
Zappa is missed, went a concert back in the late 70's, 3hrs of no stop music. IMO, one of the best concerts ever. "Don't eat the yellow snow".
Wish you all the best recovery. I'll watch out for the yellow snow.
Thanks "watch out where the Huskies go"
Good, fast, healing, wishes to you.
They’ve turned a Christmas parade into a hate fest. Smh
Don’t they do this with everything they touch?
Yes they do. Everything they touch goes toxic.
This also disappoints me because I’ve been giggling at “Don we now our gay apparel” since I was a preteen, and I would have LOVED to see that theme in a parade!
(Idiots gotta idiot, making sure to cut out all the people who make a parade most entertaining…)
It's probably because of barrier language but I don't get the joke.
"don we now our gay apparel" is a line from a Christmas song and uses the original word "gay" to mean festive. Subsequently, "gay" has been used to describe, originally, homosexual men, but later pretty much any non-cisgendered person as a catchall term. So "don we all our gay apparel" can be used as reason to dress in drag. It is funny and mildly transgressive if you are a N.A. English-speaker.
Merci.
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!
When one wants to argue biblical marriages are between one cis man and one cis woman, they shouldn't start by quoting the OT. Several patriarchs were polygamous.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw
Solomon, third king of Israel (reigned c. 968–928 B.C.E.), is said to have had a harem that included 700 wives and 300 concubines (1 Kgs 11:3). His wives were to have included the daughter of Pharaoh, as well as women of Moabite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite origins (1 Kgs 7:8; 11:1).
It would have taken him more than 3 years to have sex with each one at a rate of one a day. Maybe he was into orgies and 3 somes. Such "moral" people. 🤣
As long as everyone freely accepted it, morally it is okay, at least in my book. But concubines probably really was slaves.
So were the wives.
Yes, but, if I remember correctly, they could not be killed in a whim.
https://youtu.be/jgd1LTwznaE?si=uyl7prkkPDYCgNwQ
“There's a place in the mountains that we could go
We could stock up with diamonds and bars of gold
If we wanted a fortune, that's where we'd go
And if you wanted to go there, well, let me know
And inside Fort Knox, King Solomon is occupied with providence
Enough, but not too confident
And I get by, goodbye
Every night at 11, they drive the gold
Through the underground entrance between the poles
If we wait for a moment, the guards might go
Then I could get the door open and grab some gold
But if I should get noticed, don't worry, grab your stuff and go
I can deal with King Solomon alone“ - ‘Fort Knox King Solomon’ Bob Mold
As Ambrose Bierce said, "polygamy is too much of a bad thing".
I have a couple simple questions: just WHY did the town of Cookeville grant a permit for what amounted to a church parade in the first place? WHY would PBS actually consent to covering it? Has the Cookeville city government been so co-opted by those churches that they just rubber-stamp the permit for the parade, not having vetted the participants or their intentions?
I suppose the answer to all of this is that it's Tennessee ... and maybe that's the real shame.
Well, on the surface, Cookeville probably granted the permit because the churches paid the fee and filled out the application. Hopefully that process is religion neutral (though I am not holding my breath -- it IS Tennessee). As for the PBS coverage? Major event scheduled for a relatively slow news day. They said they thought it was the town putting it on and not the churches.
Cookeville is about halfway between Nashville and Knoxville on I 40, so, yeah. Tennessee.
Money. Cities delegate the organisation of Christmas festivities to private entities and citizens because it's expensive. It's the same here.
PBS Tennessee it's not like PBS in other states, I suspect all PBS locals in the south are overly religious.
I live in West Tennessee and every night PBS has religious shit like the 700 Club and gospel. This is exactly why I refuse to buy the PBS passport for their other programming. I have donated to PBS in the past but I absolutely will not do that ever again, not since I moved down to Tennessee and see all their toxic religious garbage programming.
I lived in the Chicago area for 24 years before coming down here for a job- the PBS up there was secular, you would not find the 700 Club on PBS stations in Chicago.
Local PSB local stations are run by local leadership...... unfortunately this is the demographic of Tennessee , toxic christianity!!
It's probably not the total demographic, just that of the leaders.
Heathen's Greetings! If I understand it correctly, this annual end-of-the-year Parade of Myths (the bloody bastard hypocrites stole so many Pagan traditions and re-branded them as Christian that it should be called the Mish-Mash March of Mangled Misconceptions) is now being co-sponsored by the local Chamber of Christ and the Tennessee Jerks for Jesus to celebrate the exclusion of thinking individuals or anyone else who doesn't fit into their infinitesimally tiny definition of true blood-cult believer. All this in the state where the famous "Monkey Trial" was held and the unevolved monkeys won. Shame on them for being so ignorant and disrespectful to the real Reason for the Season... the Birth of Brian!
"Mish-Mash March of Mangled Misconceptions"
🤣🤣🤣
My-my ... molto meshuganah!
I would absolutely attend the Mish-Mash March of Mangled Misconceptions.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍
No hate on earth like Christian love.
"But the bottom line is that because this event is now run by churches, it’s being defined by its bigotry and who the organizers want to exclude."
The parade is being defined by its Christian bigotry and who the Christian organizers want to exclude.
One of the things that bothered me for years way back when I was attending churches is the way they never seem to call each other on their reprehensible behavior. Now I understand that's the point; and the real reason for this is that most of 'em think that 'reprehensible behavior' is what their Jesus intended. The bigotry is part of the system as a feature; and most Christians honestly think it's a good thing.
This, then, is one of my ongoing criticisms of Christianity in particular and religion in general. Too often, some concept is practiced long enough it becomes comfortable, and the relative morality of the concept is never questioned because it comes from on high. That way lies madness and a powerful abrogation of personal responsibility that undermines human free will. Humanity cannot grow if it is always being held back by edicts from 'god' and never allowed to question or learn due to false limitations.
And to me? No amount of 'good deeds' done in the name of any 'god' is ever going to make up for the loss of potential that religion has cost humanity. The bigotry so often on display is just a reminder of the sort of damage religious people do with the endorsement of their 'god', and will continue to do whenever the opportunity presents itself.
The local PBS station is trying to not air the parade now because of the bigotry. Cue the organizers screaming "evil leftist media hates Christians" in 3...2...
War on Christmas !!!
Should we tell them how, like Halloween, it's a Pagan celebration ?
The war on Halloween was declared late last century by fundamentalist Christian sects. For no good reason other than kids dressed up like witches, devils, and ghosts…oh my.
The xians lost that war. We could tell them that yule is a pagan celebratian too. Like all xian holidays, they, not surprisingly, ended up replacing an already existing holyday or festival.
"kids dressed up like witches, devils, and ghosts..."
OMIGOD IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD!!! CALL OUT THE NATIONAL GUARD!! THE ARMIES OF DARKNESS ARE DESCENDING ON US!!!
Everyone do the "Satanic Panic"!
Is that anything like the Macarena, or is it even dumber?
I picture it as a dance scene cut from the Rocky Horror Picture show.
Yet they still try to take Halloween over with creepy displays and "Jesusween."
christian uneducation has reached a new low if they can't spell "jesuswine" correctly.
It's not the wine, it's the ween!
And 'Jesusween' puts funny images in my head. I like it down here in the gutter!
Read again but multiply the "s"
jesus swine?
UUUUUUUGGGGGHHHH!!!!! I so fucking HATE those! That is NOT what Halloween is about, FFS. I love its thoroughly heathen, ancient darkness, and I resent their efforts to sanitize it down to another bland, lifeless Jesus fest.
You fucking Christians do you, and quit trying to spoil the one fun holiday we have left.
They shall not prevail! They can try to sanitize it into some bland xian version, but you know what? Up with that we shall not put!
Exactly! Hands off our Halloween, Jesus Freaks.
Thank you! It is my favorite holiday! And I have the costume closet to prove it!
Me too! Isn't it fun? I have costumes for witches, wenches, demons, flappers, gypsies and cats, plus a few others, and I keep buying more. My husband thinks I'm nuts. 🤪
I hear you, I especially love medieval fair stuff, I have one velvet dress complete with hoop-skirt. And the high French court wig like Marie Antoinette’s. I wore it to Mardi Gras and got interviewed by the local news! Fun times.
The only group ever to actually wage war on christmas were the puritans, whom the modern day far right fundagelicals like to believe they're descended from.
And that was was because the puritans knew christmas was a secular celebration.
So sad. And if Christian Nationalism gets control, this will be normal and will involve the government. Separation of church and state will be gone and more hate, discrimination and division will be the norm.
Plus I just saw an article where some legislators from somewhere are upset over falling teen birthrates due to the abortion pill. So, you want more teen pregnancies? Not fewer? OK, & we're the ones w/screwed up values/morals.
What else would you expect from people so invested in kiddie diddling that they block ANY attempt to outlaw child marriage? Give these NatCs the chance and graduation for young American women in the future will consist of marriage at 12 with nothing else to forward to but being bred to death by 35 or so.
And they don't want to provide any help to the teen girls/couples to support and raise their children.
Because they want them to remain poor - these babies are future factory workers, gas station clerks, chicken feather pluckers, farmhands, military cannon fodder.
crazy
For many years, the York City, Pennsylvania Halloween parade allowed a group of Christians to ride at the end of the parade with huge pictures of aborted fetuses. While it was not well received by the public who tried to shield their children from seeing these pictures, the city allowed it. Finally the parade was canceled for lack of funding was the official version. More likely due to these Christ bigots and the cities inability to find a legal way to exclude them.
With this Christmas parade, if PBS pulls out, then the Christ bigots will cry foul and that they are being persecuted. boo hoo boo hoo. Or is that ho ho ho ho ?
Also, if you can believe in one imaginary friend, I guess it's no problem to believe in Santa Claus and have him in your bigot parade.
Santa is a training god. The entity knows when you’re unconscious. It knows when you’re up and about. It knows what good or evil lurks in your heart and all your deeds. So, of course, be good for the sake of goodness, but somehow the or else has been dropped. In other cultures there are “bad cops” operating during the Christmas season. Krampus, Zwarte Piet, and other reformed boogeymen sought out the bad kids for punishment and removal from society. Gotta nip the budding Conduct Disorder kinders and cutdown on the adult free range psychopaths. The West created a moral hazard when we jettisoned the shadow Santa.
Le père Fouettard. Who doesn't put coal in your shoes/slippers but do worse.
If PBS can't get out of covering the parade, perhaps instead of the usual saccharine "Aw, isn't that town's parade so charming" drivel, they could produce it as a documentary about this very controversy, with footage of the waving Santa and all the usual Christmas crap interspersed with interviews of the bigoted church organizers trying to rationalize their hate, the excluded LGBTQ+ group being friendly, decent, rational, funny, and just a little fabulous, and man-on-the-street interviews of town citizens both for and against the parade's unloving and exclusionary requirements.
Nothing but "we report, you decide" kind of journalism. Let the church sponsors embarrass themselves even worse.
Also those abortion pictures are phony. Actual abortions don't look anything like that, I know because I used to assist as a surgical assistant.