Oh, for fucks sake, people
Dec. 21st, 2006 10:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silverthorneAfter seeing about the twentieth article this year alone about 'OMG NO NATIVITY FOR YOU!!!', I've had enough of this 'politically correct' bullshit.
Denying the tradition of setting up nativity scenes and all that crap is NOT the way to encourage 'equality' in religion, people. Especially around the holidays, all right? Suddenly taking away the rights of one group does not automatically grant those rights to everyone else. It does not 'balance the scales'--it just heaps the prejudice that used to be heaped on your religion on the other one. And no, it doesn't 'serve them right, the bastards'.
That Is Not The Sufi Way, you idiots.
And Little Baby Pagan (or whatever) is not going to be Scarred For Life if they happen to see Christmas lights and everything else all over the neighborhood. Unless, of course, you teach them to get all scarred for life because, hey, your religion is not plastered all over the secular world with 'Buy Buy Buy' as the new message right along with 'that other religion'.
And PS--since when is Communining With The Big Thing Out There such a fucking competiton, anyway? What does it matter if your religious neighbors are fucking noisy? Is shutting them up really going to make your religion that much more...what? Powerful? Important? Better? Does it makes yours any better to do the same thing?
...if it does, maybe you ought to rethink what you think religion is all about before you start using political correctness as an excuse to shut down someone else's stuff, eh?
Repeating history in the opposite direction solves nothing. Leave the fucking nativity scenes and shit alone and go home and worry about your own communications with whatever you think runs the universe. ultimately, that's the important thing if you want to get all religious. As for the rest--as far as I know, this time of year is all about love, forgiveness, family, etc, regardless of whot/what/why/where you are.
Start fucking acting like it, okay?
Denying the tradition of setting up nativity scenes and all that crap is NOT the way to encourage 'equality' in religion, people. Especially around the holidays, all right? Suddenly taking away the rights of one group does not automatically grant those rights to everyone else. It does not 'balance the scales'--it just heaps the prejudice that used to be heaped on your religion on the other one. And no, it doesn't 'serve them right, the bastards'.
That Is Not The Sufi Way, you idiots.
And Little Baby Pagan (or whatever) is not going to be Scarred For Life if they happen to see Christmas lights and everything else all over the neighborhood. Unless, of course, you teach them to get all scarred for life because, hey, your religion is not plastered all over the secular world with 'Buy Buy Buy' as the new message right along with 'that other religion'.
And PS--since when is Communining With The Big Thing Out There such a fucking competiton, anyway? What does it matter if your religious neighbors are fucking noisy? Is shutting them up really going to make your religion that much more...what? Powerful? Important? Better? Does it makes yours any better to do the same thing?
...if it does, maybe you ought to rethink what you think religion is all about before you start using political correctness as an excuse to shut down someone else's stuff, eh?
Repeating history in the opposite direction solves nothing. Leave the fucking nativity scenes and shit alone and go home and worry about your own communications with whatever you think runs the universe. ultimately, that's the important thing if you want to get all religious. As for the rest--as far as I know, this time of year is all about love, forgiveness, family, etc, regardless of whot/what/why/where you are.
Start fucking acting like it, okay?
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Worditty McWord
Date: 2006-12-21 05:10 pm (UTC)"Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. "So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. "And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward. But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward
you.
Re: Worditty McWord
Date: 2006-12-21 05:50 pm (UTC)I can never remember where that passage is in the bible. *g*
...and to think I took Sunday School every year from 5 to 12...lol.
no subject
Date: 2006-12-21 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-21 08:02 pm (UTC)We really just need to worry about our own stuff and let 'those guys over there' do what they're gonna do. In the end, most of the celebrations have the same thing at the core of it all: Life, Death, change, family, love and respect. Doesn't matter what you label it, or how you celebrate it, or the stories behind it. The intentions are pretty much universal once you strip away the outer trappings.
Hmmm
Date: 2006-12-21 07:08 pm (UTC)Have to agree with you though
Re: Hmmm
Date: 2006-12-21 07:23 pm (UTC):P
;)