Will someone let me know when the War on Christmas starts this year.

[Grizzly]

Hi everyone

I haven't been around for awhile. I needed to take a break from the partisan arguing (and I've been unusually busy). But I would like to ask a favor - can someone let me know when the War on Christmas starts up again? The War on Christmas has become an enjoyable part of my holiday season, and I want to fight side-by-side with my Christmas Jihadi brothers and sisters as we once again try to stop Christmas from happening in every home in America (and perhaps even abroad one day). In the meantime, I'll try to check in periodically to see if I can offer any support.

Death to Christmas!!!

Cheers

Griz

 

[prov1810]

Sorry, that train has left the station.

[Puritans] contended that there was no Scriptural warrant for the celebration of Jesus’ birth. Puritans argued (not incorrectly) that Christmas represented nothing more than a thin Christian veneer slapped on a pagan celebration. Believing in the holiday was superstitious at best, heretical at worst.

When the Puritans rebelled against King Charles I, inciting the English Revolution, the popular celebration of Christmas was on their hit list. Victorious against the king, in 1647, the Puritan government actually canceled Christmas. Not only were traditional expressions of merriment strictly forbidden, but shops were also ordered to stay open, churches were shut down and ministers arrested for preaching on Christmas Day.

The Puritans who came to America naturally shared these sentiments. As the Massachusetts minister Increase Mather explained in 1687, Christmas was observed on Dec. 25 not because “Christ was born in that Month, but because the Heathens Saturnalia was at that time kept in Rome, and they were willing to have those Pagan Holidays metamorphosed into Christian” ones. So naturally, official suppression of Christmas was foundational to the godly colonies in New England.

On their first Christmas in the New World, the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony celebrated the holiday not at all. Instead they worked in the fields. One year, the colony’s governor, William Bradford, yelled at visitors to the colony who, unaware that Christmas was celebrated more in the absence than in the commemoration, were taking the day off. He found them “in the streete at play, openly; some pitching the barr, and some at stoole-ball, and shuch like sports.” After that incident, no one again tried to take off work for Christmas in the colony.

The Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony went one step further and actually outlawed the celebration of Christmas. From 1659 to 1681, anyone caught celebrating Christmas in the colony would be fined five shillings.
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Yuletide’s Outlaws

 

[Saleena]

I am the champion of Christmas. I defend the holy teachings of santa claus and Rudolf the jingle bell tree!

 

[TerranceL]

The War on Christmas never ends... it just goes Cold.

 

[DaisyDay]

It seems to have started this year back in August:

http://www.christianforums.com/t7767544/

 

[NightHawkeye]

Hi everyone

I haven't been around for awhile. I needed to take a break from the partisan arguing (and I've been unusually busy). But I would like to ask a favor - can someone let me know when the War on Christmas starts up again? The War on Christmas has become an enjoyable part of my holiday season, and I want to fight side-by-side with my Christmas Jihadi brothers and sisters as we once again try to stop Christmas from happening in every home in America (and perhaps even abroad one day). In the meantime, I'll try to check in periodically to see if I can offer any support.

Death to Christmas!!!

Cheers

Griz

Hi, Grizzly.

Good to see you here again.

 

[Loudmouth]

Hi everyone

I haven't been around for awhile. I needed to take a break from the partisan arguing (and I've been unusually busy). But I would like to ask a favor - can someone let me know when the War on Christmas starts up again? The War on Christmas has become an enjoyable part of my holiday season, and I want to fight side-by-side with my Christmas Jihadi brothers and sisters as we once again try to stop Christmas from happening in every home in America (and perhaps even abroad one day). In the meantime, I'll try to check in periodically to see if I can offer any support.

Death to Christmas!!!

Cheers

Griz

It starts one day after Feigned Persecution Day.

 

[Shocker123]

As soon as I read a story about people being told that "Merry Christmas" will offend someone. That's when it starts.

 

[katautumn]

I shall avoid all this malarkey by observing Hanukkah this year. Still, my local Michael's craft store, back at the end of August, had all of their Halloween stuff on clearance and the entire back section of the store was Christmas stuff. Doh!

 

[USincognito]

The FWOC fundraising efforts never end for some of the combatants.

American Family Online Store - Christmas Buttons

 

[Ringo84]

When the first shots are fired against us poor, defenseless Christians (a clerk says 'Happy Holidays' at Wal-Mart), I'll let you know.
Ringo

 

[Shocker123]

"Happy Holidays" wasn't a bad thing until employers told employees they were forbidden to say "Merry Christmas."

 

[katautumn]

The FWOC fundraising efforts never end for some of the combatants.

American Family Online Store - Christmas Buttons

I find it amazing when Christians fight tooth and nail for a holiday that is so steeped in Pagan tradition it isn't even funny.

Jesus wasn't born on December 25th.

Jesus celebrated Hanukkah, not His birth date.

Nowhere does the Bible tell Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

Trees, wreaths, Christmas decorations (especially balls of gold and silver), the exchanging of gifts, Yule logs, Christmas ham, mistletoe, all Pagan in origin.

Angel tree toppers are almost exclusively female, when the Bible is clear that the angels that appeared to Mary and the shepherds were male.

So, in reality, when Christians fight to "keep the Christ in Christmas" I wonder...when was Christ in Christmas in the first place? Christmas is a fun little holiday. It's festive. The decorations are pretty. The food is good. The songs are fun. Parties are a blast. It's nice to give, and receive, gifts. But why do we struggle to cram Jesus into a holiday that is was strictly Pagan in its beginnings, and largely secular/consumer today?

 

[Pommer]

Good to see you back Griz!
Er, ah, General Grizzly, SIR!

Let me be among the first to wish you

HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

 

[SummerMadness]

Hi everyone

I haven't been around for awhile. I needed to take a break from the partisan arguing (and I've been unusually busy). But I would like to ask a favor - can someone let me know when the War on Christmas starts up again? The War on Christmas has become an enjoyable part of my holiday season, and I want to fight side-by-side with my Christmas Jihadi brothers and sisters as we once again try to stop Christmas from happening in every home in America (and perhaps even abroad one day). In the meantime, I'll try to check in periodically to see if I can offer any support.

Death to Christmas!!!

Cheers

Griz

2013 War on Christmas (31 October 2013)​

It Has Begun!

 

[Illuminaughty]

As soon as they start sending people to the gulags for having a Christmas tree like they did last year on orders from the Caliph Hussein Obama. Remember when he had the goose stepping- liberal-fascist-right wing Islamic fundamentalist-Christian Liberation Theologist-progressive-gay rainbow Storm Troopers [GSLFRWIFCLTPGR Troopers for short] put that into effect?

 

[Anovah]

I call upon Kris Kringle and his elven army to smite the opposition to Christmas!

They may take our retail greetings but they will never take... our presents!

 

[Saleena]

I call upon Kris Kringle and his elven army to smite the opposition to Christmas!

They may take our retail greetings but they will never take... our presents!

I am the Champion of Christmas. How can I help thee?

 

[lozcin]

I would like to also wish happy holidays to you all!

youtube.com/watch?v=Yz7FYPQp7v0

 

[Anovah]

I am the Champion of Christmas. How can I help thee?

Rally the forces! We must find Frosty the destroyer and Santa's war steed, Rudolph! We will infiltrate the ACLU headquarters with mistletoe grenades and candy cane bombs.

At dawn... WE STRIKE!