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The people of Boca Raton, Florida can’t seem to handle the atheist and Satanist displays in Sanborn Square park. Despite the Pentagram monument being locked in place the other day, vandals struck again, tying a chain to the structure and pulling it down.
Conservatives are complaining after Centerville Elementary School in Pennsylvania canceled its traditional performance of “A Christmas Carol” after a couple of parents said it was inappropriate for Tiny Tim to say, “God bless us, everyone.” As usual, the facts don’t back their story.
In this clip from Adam Ruins Everything, host Adam Conover explains how Christmas traditions have little to do with anything in the Bible. In fact, the traditions we celebrate actually have Pagan origins.
And then, just for kicks, he gives us that history in a Peanuts-style cartoon. Linus would be devastated.
Jim Denison, who runs a “think tank” dedicated to evangelizing, says that Christians shouldn’t argue with atheists. I was tempted to agree with him, too, until I read his two reasons for avoiding that conflict:
The owner of Non Sit Peccatum, a sex shop in Spain, received multiple death threats from Christians after placing a Nativity scene made of ceramic dildos in the window:
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