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So, shall I begin the Christmas story?

Absolutely, as long as it’s not that terribly depressing one about the chap who gets born on Christmas Day, shoots his mouth off about everything under the sun, and then comes a cropper with a couple of rum coves on top of a hill in Johnny Arab land. — from Black Adder’s Christmas Carol

Political Idolatry

Dear Christian,

When you tell someone “you aren’t a real Christian unless you vote for my preferred candidate,” all you are doing is declaring to the world that you can no longer tell the difference between Christianity and your political party.

That’s political idolatry.
– brcremer

to all my friends and followers, Merry Christmas. to all you dipshits who think the war on Christmas is a real thing, happy holidays
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 25, 2023

If Republicans Said the Quiet Parts Loud About the War on Christmas:

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	Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
	The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed
	God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer
	Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them)
	Forged: Writing in the Name of God–Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
	Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth
	How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
	Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
	The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
	Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
	Journeys to Heaven and Hell: Tours of the Afterlife in the Early Christian Tradition
	Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End