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It don’t take 9days to ship a 2lb book from TN to VA Amazon. COME ON! u gettn in the way of a Haudenosaunee !!

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IDKY but this excites me

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MOM: wawawa christmas shopping.

ME: u know by spending money on the unnecessary in the Lord’s name you’re practically re-nailing Jesus.

MOM: but its Christmas.

ME: dec25 has historically been a day worldwide to persecute and shamelessly torture the unfortunate plus by padding the pockets of the capitalist fiends you perpetuate the greed that is crippling the world.

MOM: but i’m Christian.

ME: yea and I bet you give out candy for Easter too … Butch up Mom! ….

ACCURACY … the new Christian Movement!!!

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For millennia, people have been swept away in the Christmas season’s festivities, and very few people ever pause to consider the celebration’s intrinsic meaning, history, or origins.

Many of the most popular Christmas customs – including Christmas trees, mistletoe, Christmas presents, and Santa Claus – are modern incarnations of the most depraved pagan rituals ever practiced on earth.

In fact .. Since its inception December 25 began as a day on which Jews were shamed, tortured, and murdered.

The Christmas celebration was created to celebrate the birth of the Christian God who came to rescue mankind from the “curse of the Torah.” The original celebration was preformed as a 24-hour declaration that Judaism is no longer valid. Even today there is no Christian church with a tradition based on any information originating from the Christian Bible itself, that Jesus was really born on December 25th.

Are you strong enought to read more …

Ever watched the Boondocks TV show, episode “A Huey Freeman Christmas” and wonder what was Huey talking about?

… well read on …

Roman pagans first introduced the holiday of Saturnalia, a week long period of lawlessness celebrated between December 17-25. During this period Roman courts were closed, and Roman law dictated that no one could be punished for damaging property or injuring people during the week-long celebration.

The festival began when Roman authorities chose “an enemy of the Roman people” to represent the “Lord of Misrule.” Each Roman community selected a victim whom they forced to indulge in food and other physical pleasures throughout the week.

At the festival’s conclusion on December 25th, Roman authorities believed they were destroying the forces of darkness by brutally murdering this innocent man or woman.
In addition to human sacrifice, the ancient Greek writer poet and historian Lucian (in his dialogue entitled Saturnalia) mentions the following customs as he described the festival’s observance in his time:
-widespread intoxication;
-going from house to house while singing naked;
-rape and other sexual license; and
-consuming human-shaped biscuits (still produced in some English and most German bakeries during the Christmas season).

In the 4th century CE, Christianity imported the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. Christian leaders succeeded in converting to Christianity, large numbers of pagans by promising them that they could continue to celebrate the Saturnalia as Christians. The problem was that there was nothing intrinsically Christian about Saturnalia. To remedy this, these Christian leaders named Saturnalia’s concluding day, December 25th, to be Jesus’ birthday.

Christians had little success, however, refining the practices of Saturnalia. As Stephen Nissenbaum, professor history at the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, writes, “In return for ensuring massive observance of the anniversary of the Savior’s birth by assigning it to this resonant date, the Church for its part tacitly agreed to allow the holiday to be celebrated more or less the way it had always been.” The earliest Christmas holidays were celebrated by drinking, sexual indulgence, singing naked in the streets (a precursor of modern caroling), etc.

Some of the most depraved customs of the Saturnalia carnival were intentionally revived by the Catholic Church in 1466 when Pope Paul II, for the amusement of his Roman citizens, forced Jews to race naked through the streets of the city. An eyewitness account reports, “Before they were to run, the Jews were richly fed, so as to make the race more difficult for them and at the same time more amusing for spectators. They ran… amid Rome’s taunting shrieks and peals of laughter, while the Holy Father stood upon a richly ornamented balcony and laughed heartily.”

The Reverend Increase Mather of Boston observed in 1687 that “the early Christians whofirst observed the Nativity on December 25 did not do so thinking that 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.”

Because of its known pagan origin, Christmas was banned by the Puritans and its observance was illegal in Massachusetts between 1659 and 1681. However, Christmas was and still is celebrated by most Christians.

As part of the Saturnalia carnival throughout the 18th and 19th centuries CE, rabbis of the ghetto in Rome were forced to wear clownish outfits and march through the city streets to the jeers of the crowd, pelted by a variety of missiles. When the Jewish community of Rome sent a petition in 1836 to Pope Gregory XVI begging him to stop the annual Saturnalia abuse of the Jewish community, he responded,

“It is not opportune to make any innovation.”

Christmas Tree
Just as early Christians recruited Roman pagans by associating Christmas with the Saturnalia, so too worshipers of the Asheira cult and its offshoots were recruited by the Church, sanctioning “Christmas Trees”. Pagans had long worshiped trees in the forest, or brought them into their homes and decorated them, and this observance was adopted and painted with a Christian veneer by the Church.


Mistletoe
Norse mythology recounts how the god Balder was killed using a mistletoe arrow by his rival god Hoder while fighting for the female Nanna. Druid rituals use mistletoe to poison their human sacrificial victim. The Christian custom of “kissing under the mistletoe” is a later synthesis of the sexual license of Saturnalia with the Druidic sacrificial cult.


Christmas Gifts & Saint Nicholas
In pre-Christian Rome, the emperors compelled their most despised citizens to bring offerings and gifts during the Saturnalia (in December) and Kalends (in January). Later, this ritual expanded to include gift-giving among the general populace. The Catholic Church gave this custom a Christian flavor by re-rooting it in the supposed gift-giving of Saint Nicholas.

Nicholas was born in Parara, Turkey in 270 CE and later became Bishop of Myra. He died in 345 CE on December 6th. He was only named a saint in the 19th century.
Nicholas was among the most senior bishops who convened the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE and created the New Testament.The text they produced portrayed Jews as “the children of the devil” who sentenced Jesus to death.

In 1087, a group of sailors who idolized Nicholas moved his bones from Turkey to a sanctuary in Bari, Italy. There Nicholas supplanted a female boon-giving deity called The Grandmother, or Pasqua Epiphania, who used to fill the stockings of children with her gifts.The Grandmother was ousted from her shrine at Bari, which became the center of the Nicholas cult.Members of this group gave each other gifts during a pageant they conducted annually on the anniversary of Nicholas’ death, December 6.

The Nicholas cult spread north until it was adopted by German and Celtic pagans. These groups worshiped a pantheon led by Woden (their chief god and the father of Thor, Balder, and Tiw). Woden had a long, white beard and “rode a horse through the heavens” one evening each Autumn. When Nicholas merged with Woden, he shed his Mediterranean appearance, grew a beard, mounted a flying horse, rescheduled his flight for December, and donned heavy winter clothing.

In a bid for pagan adherents in Northern Europe, the Catholic Church adopted the Nicholas cult and taught that he did (and they should) distribute gifts on December 25th instead of December 6th.

In 1809, the novelist Washington Irving (most famous his The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Rip Van Winkle) wrote a satire of Dutch culture entitled Knickerbocker History.The satire refers several times to the white bearded, flying-horse riding Saint Nicholas using his Dutch name, Santa Claus.

Dr. Clement Moore, a professor at Union Seminary, read Knickerbocker History, and in 1822 he published a poem based on the character Santa Claus: “Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in the hope that Saint Nicholas soon would be there…” Moore innovated by portraying a Santa with eight reindeer who descended through chimneys.

The Bavarian illustrator Thomas Nast almost completed the modern picture of Santa Claus.From 1862 through 1886, based on Moore’s poem, Nast drew more than 2,200 cartoon images of Santa for Harper’s Weekly.Before Nast, Saint Nicholas had been pictured as everything from a stern looking bishop to a gnome-like figure in a frock.Nast also gave Santa a home at the North Pole, his workshop filled with elves, and his list of the good and bad children of the world. All Santa was missing was his red outfit.

In 1931, the Coca Cola Corporation contracted the Swedish commercial artist Haddon Sundblom to create a coke-drinking Santa. Sundblom modeled his Santa on his friend Lou Prentice, chosen for his cheerful, chubby face. The corporation insisted that Santa’s fur-trimmed suit be bright, Coca Cola red. And thus “Santa” was born – a blend of Christian crusader, pagan god, and commercial idol.

If you think I’m wrong … Google it!
And please BEFORE you say the information mentioned here is incorrect site your source that proves such as I have sited mine.


So why do you celebrate Christmas? Because you are Christian? Because it’s fun? Because your parents or your church celebrates it so you do to? Because you want to give gifts or get them? How does you “want” coincide with the “truth” ???






Information take from:
Addison G. Wright, Roland E. Murphy, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, “A History of Israel” in The Jerome Biblical Commentary, (Prentice Hall: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1990), p. 1247.

Increase Mather, A Testimony against Several Prophane and Superstitious Customs, Now Practiced by Some in New England (London, 1687), p. 35. See also Stephen Nissenbaum, The Battle for Christmas: A Cultural History of America’s Most Cherished Holiday, New York: Vintage Books, 1997

David I. Kertzer, The Popes Against the Jews: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001

Clement Miles, Christmas Customs and Traditions: Their History and Significance, New York: Dover Publications, 1976

editorially summerized on http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/Christmas_TheRealStory.htm

Whats so sad is that people think that THIS is reality.

That friday night drinks, reality tv, paying ur kids class dues, church on sunday … etc is what’s real. its not. it so is not. ever wonder Y you feel empty, that ur missing something, that ____ is not enough? let me help you … its because THIS is not reality.

Reality is being able to clothe your kids thru the skill of your own hands, being able to entertain your mate by your own talents of mind, being able to feed your family by your own force, not thru servitude and walMart.

But thats right…you decided to learn how to DDR and MafiaWar instead of sew or knitt…you can quote the hot scenes from RealHWofAtlanta but you cant create a moment of beauty without petrol or a receipt…oh and instead of insisting that there was land available for you to farm you geeked out hard when Whitecastle and wallyWrld came to town.

Is that your reality … really? Cause if it is how does it feel?

How does it feel knowing that the kids of this country rank below Kazakhstan in math&science? How does it feel that the average North Korean toddler is better educated on how to survive in a world without abundant fossil fuels that an adult in the US? How does it feel to know that for all its wealth and “power” children born in the US after 2000 will not outlive their parents …

You know how it feels … It feels hollow, empty, void … it feels like REALITY!

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