And then only celebrate if you are a Christian. (I'm not, so I don't.)

Hope you don't have a problem with that.

I agree with Delphinus just don't tell me I have to celebrate any religion's holidays

from the pagans, so feel free to just celebrate being alive and with family/friends. another long celebrated, nature based holiday they stole to convert the masses into total idiots. it's apparently working.

That means it's a holiday for everyone in the nation. If anyone want to reserve Christmas for Christians and exclude everyone else, they need to change that first.

a DVD for Christmas service since he and his family were jetting to the Caribbean for the holidays.

That said everything we need to know about these snake oil salesmen. I can see why they like Groper Don the Con.

Of the White House megachurch!

Except he and fam jet to Moscow for the holidays.

which Burt Lancaster portrayed a Carnival/Barker...Pastor?
Says it all.. Great movie.

Great movie indeed

It merits a bumpersticker, text only.

Mahalo!

Political Christians rather than Christians of faith.

They support Trump who says he is so perfect that he does not need Christ or his forgiveness.

Like today's evangelical/religious right supporters, Trump is a Political Christian, not a Christian of faith.

Evangelicals/religious right are easily able to spin their beliefs for political expediency.

The Donald who does not have to ask Jesus for forgiveness.

Trump: Drink my little wine, have my little cracker

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2015/08/13/donald-trump-religion-serfaty-dnt-erin.cnn

I tend to think of them as Paulians more than followers of the Gospel's Jesus but "political christians" works very well.

And most Jesus followers are conservatives.

Go figure.

At best, Trump is a "Christmas Christian" - someone who only goes to church on the holidays, and then only because he's expected to. For some strange reason, I think swindling and pussygrabbing are not acceptable behaviors for Christians to exhibit.

They pick and choose what to believe -- with second helpings of some out-of-context quotes.
And no Beatitudes, please. They're on a strict diet.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

... it began, and increasingly became, neither.

The so-called “Christians” are anything but, in thought, word, and/or deed.

When they start preaching to their sheeple about Matthew 25: 35-45, and expounding on the Beatitudes, THEN I’ll believe they’re sincere followers of Christ. This so-called “prosperity gospel” they’ve embraced, with the idea that if you’re poor, that means you are being punished by or found worthless and sinful by God. Which is BEYOND bulkshit. As Scripture often tells us, He lives the poor and hung out with them almost exclusively.

For my lessons on manners

...and I flunked Kindergarten.

What is so difficult about “put things back the way you found them”?

and corrupt business practices often made possible by loose tax exemption laws. I prefer my cathedrals among the forests and the animals as fellow worshippers. No gold plated collection plates or false tv pleas there. Organized religion has no moral authority to tell anyone how to celebrate, or what to call it.

The most spiritual I feel, closest to God if you like, is when I am deep in a forest, surrounded by trees and listening to only the wind in the branches and bird songs. And I was brought up in a strict evangelical household.

Don't give it away to some psycho who molests young boys, jets off to the Caribbean and owns a Rolls Royce.

Might even copy and send it to one of my brothers. Nah, that would be like dropping a shit-ton of alumagel on the campfire. But if he weren't my brother ...

Religion is simply something that does not define my life--on either side of the spectrum.
That being said....I like holidays because I like holidays. Period. I don't attach any religious significance to them.
I dye Easter eggs because I like to dye Easter eggs.
I love Santa Claus's and collect them.
If you look hard enough, I always have one Santa on display throughout the year.

Sick of this penny-ante shit. It smacks of George Orwell.

Happy holidays!