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	<title>Comments on: Why Do Atheists Loathe the Baby Jesus? He&#8217;s Just a Baby</title>
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		<title>By: martymankins</title>
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		<dc:creator>martymankins</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isn&#039;t Christmas mentioned in the Old Testament?  lol

Seriously, it seems the publicity these people crave and how they are so offended by a neutral message that isn&#039;t even directed at them.  Most of these &quot;No God&quot; ads are directed at people that are already atheists.

Once again, it&#039;s the fear that their fairly tale-laced majority will somehow decline if people feel like they can be freethinkers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Isn&#8217;t Christmas mentioned in the Old Testament?  lol</p>
<p>Seriously, it seems the publicity these people crave and how they are so offended by a neutral message that isn&#8217;t even directed at them.  Most of these &#8220;No God&#8221; ads are directed at people that are already atheists.</p>
<p>Once again, it&#8217;s the fear that their fairly tale-laced majority will somehow decline if people feel like they can be freethinkers.</p>
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		<title>By: O&#8217;Reilly: They Hate The Baby Jesus! &#124; Miscellanea Agnostica</title>
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		<dc:creator>O&#8217;Reilly: They Hate The Baby Jesus! &#124; Miscellanea Agnostica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Beth</title>
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		<dc:creator>Beth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those poor, poor christians...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those poor, poor christians&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Brian Macker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brian Macker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Most of the great stuff about xmas is secular or based on pagan traditions.    Cutting the tree down and decorating it, gift swapping, celebration of the season, the feast, etc.   I&#039;m sure xmas cards have more to do with Hallmark than christianity.   Christmas caroling started with beggars looking for a handout.

The boring stuff, going to church, which almost no one does, is due to Christianity.   

Same goes for the other &quot;Christian&quot; holidays stolen from the pagans.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Most of the great stuff about xmas is secular or based on pagan traditions.    Cutting the tree down and decorating it, gift swapping, celebration of the season, the feast, etc.   I&#8217;m sure xmas cards have more to do with Hallmark than christianity.   Christmas caroling started with beggars looking for a handout.</p>
<p>The boring stuff, going to church, which almost no one does, is due to Christianity.   </p>
<p>Same goes for the other &#8220;Christian&#8221; holidays stolen from the pagans.</p>
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		<title>By: Carlie</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carlie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 02:40:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve decided that any time someone goes into a rant about the war on Christmas in my hearing, my response is going to be &quot;I didn&#039;t realize you were an anti-Semite&quot;. Or, in case they don&#039;t know what that means, maybe I should say &quot;I didn&#039;t realize you hate Jews.&quot;
I mean really, for a group that likes to claim solidarity with Israel and talk about &quot;Judeo-Christian values&quot;, they sure like to throw them under the bus all the time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve decided that any time someone goes into a rant about the war on Christmas in my hearing, my response is going to be &#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize you were an anti-Semite&#8221;. Or, in case they don&#8217;t know what that means, maybe I should say &#8220;I didn&#8217;t realize you hate Jews.&#8221;<br />
I mean really, for a group that likes to claim solidarity with Israel and talk about &#8220;Judeo-Christian values&#8221;, they sure like to throw them under the bus all the time.</p>
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		<title>By: muggle</title>
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		<dc:creator>muggle</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m just still laughing at this.  You heard it.  Bill O&#039;Reilly admitted the Christ Child was &quot;just a baby&quot;!  We Atheists should be playing this clip all over the damned place!

Even those two vacant headed Malibu barbies laughed at him and called him crazy.  If even they can&#039;t take him seriously, do we have anything to fear from him.

I think I&#039;ll keep laughing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m just still laughing at this.  You heard it.  Bill O&#8217;Reilly admitted the Christ Child was &#8220;just a baby&#8221;!  We Atheists should be playing this clip all over the damned place!</p>
<p>Even those two vacant headed Malibu barbies laughed at him and called him crazy.  If even they can&#8217;t take him seriously, do we have anything to fear from him.</p>
<p>I think I&#8217;ll keep laughing.</p>
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		<title>By: Hemant Mehta</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hemant Mehta</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;It just seems so many Christians have to be outraged about something but willfully look away from man’s inhumanity to man or any real suffering, and create some bullshit that they can “battle” and feel good about. I usually say something along the lines of: you can wear your WWJD stuff anywhere, wear crosses around your neck, politicians pander to you, radio and TV networks are dedicated to your view, and entire schools and universities exist to propagate your teachings. And yet somehow you’re persecuted?&lt;/blockquote&gt;

Flah -- Hear, hear!  I wish more Christians could see it that way.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>It just seems so many Christians have to be outraged about something but willfully look away from man’s inhumanity to man or any real suffering, and create some bullshit that they can “battle” and feel good about. I usually say something along the lines of: you can wear your WWJD stuff anywhere, wear crosses around your neck, politicians pander to you, radio and TV networks are dedicated to your view, and entire schools and universities exist to propagate your teachings. And yet somehow you’re persecuted?</p></blockquote>
<p>Flah &#8212; Hear, hear!  I wish more Christians could see it that way.</p>
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		<title>By: ckitching</title>
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		<dc:creator>ckitching</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s a good thing that Bill started talking over one of his lackies there.  They came dangerously close to a real point.

&quot;By the way, Gallup says, 93% of Americans identify and celebrate Christmas.  93% of Americans are not &lt;i&gt;Christian!&lt;/i&gt;&quot;

If you think about this, this paints the holiday in a very different light than just a solemn religious celebration that Bill and Fiends seem to want to paint.  Take away those who religiously don&#039;t celebrate holidays (like JWs), or those that celebrate rival holidays that occupy the same calendar days (like Hanukkah), and you&#039;re left with a lot of non-Christians celebrating a holiday for secular reasons.

I liked the fatwa-envy, too.  &#039;They wouldn&#039;t dare say something like this about &lt;i&gt;MUSLIMS!!!!!&lt;/i&gt;&#039;  They can, and would.  This veiled threat does not seem to exemplify the values Christians like to say their religion teaches.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s a good thing that Bill started talking over one of his lackies there.  They came dangerously close to a real point.</p>
<p>&#8220;By the way, Gallup says, 93% of Americans identify and celebrate Christmas.  93% of Americans are not <i>Christian!</i>&#8221;</p>
<p>If you think about this, this paints the holiday in a very different light than just a solemn religious celebration that Bill and Fiends seem to want to paint.  Take away those who religiously don&#8217;t celebrate holidays (like JWs), or those that celebrate rival holidays that occupy the same calendar days (like Hanukkah), and you&#8217;re left with a lot of non-Christians celebrating a holiday for secular reasons.</p>
<p>I liked the fatwa-envy, too.  &#8216;They wouldn&#8217;t dare say something like this about <i>MUSLIMS!!!!!</i>&#8216;  They can, and would.  This veiled threat does not seem to exemplify the values Christians like to say their religion teaches.</p>
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		<title>By: Flah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Flah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;blockquote&gt;but I know my general opinion of Christianity would change radically.&lt;/blockquote&gt;

@Claudia:  mine too, honey, mine too.  Merry Christmas back at ya.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>but I know my general opinion of Christianity would change radically.</p></blockquote>
<p>@Claudia:  mine too, honey, mine too.  Merry Christmas back at ya.</p>
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		<title>By: Mariano</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mariano</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The ads are mere propaganda that answers to an argument that no one has made. The claim is not that atheists lack of morals but lack of moral premise, lack of ethos.

It is also a reprinting of their ads from last year:
http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-atheist-charity-huge-success.html
 
Yet again, during a time of the year when people are generally more inclined towards charity—peace on earth and good will towards non-gender specific personages—atheists are busily collecting hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of dollars during a time of recession not in order to help anyone in real material need but in order to purchase bill boards and bus ads whereby they seek to demonstrate, to themselves, just how clever they are—need any more be said?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The ads are mere propaganda that answers to an argument that no one has made. The claim is not that atheists lack of morals but lack of moral premise, lack of ethos.</p>
<p>It is also a reprinting of their ads from last year:<br />
<a href="http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-atheist-charity-huge-success.html" rel="nofollow">http://atheismisdead.blogspot.com/2008/11/another-atheist-charity-huge-success.html</a></p>
<p>Yet again, during a time of the year when people are generally more inclined towards charity—peace on earth and good will towards non-gender specific personages—atheists are busily collecting hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of dollars during a time of recession not in order to help anyone in real material need but in order to purchase bill boards and bus ads whereby they seek to demonstrate, to themselves, just how clever they are—need any more be said?</p>
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