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[Listverse] 10 Bizarre Things You Didn't Know About Christmas - Listverse: the Puritans did not consider December 25 to be a religious day (if God would have wanted us to celebrate it, then He would have specified that date in the Bible), Christmas was celebrated by Catholics and hence was anathema to the Puritans, and, perhaps most importantly, Christmas was not being celebrated by quietly spending the day at home with family or at church, but rather celebrants spent the day “consumed in Compotations, in Interludes, in playing at Cards, in Revellings, in excess of Wine, in mad Mirth …” according to the Rev.

[Little India Largest Circulated Indian Magazine In USA] An Indian Christmas In America: One custom Indian Christian communities delight in is their holiday desserts, and although there are several Portuguese influences in the main dishes of several Christian communities, the Indian influences prevails in the spicing and in the sweets. There are the traditional sweets like Mixed Fruit Cake, Plum Cake and Date Cake, but the Indian mithai influence is found in Marzipan, Milk Cream, Cordials, which are all cashew nut or almond based.

[The Confluence] Christmas Day News and Views « The Confluence: They resigned their membership with Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago in 2008 after Obama renounced the church’s controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright. And while the First Family intended to find a local church to attend when they moved to Washington, concerns about crowds and displacing regular worshippers has prevented them from finding a new religious home during their first year here.

[small dead animals] small dead animals: Taking The Christ Out Of Easter: The Bishop of St Davids, the Right Rev Carl Cooper, gives warning in his Easter message against reliance on the latest new-age cult. Referring to comparisons between cosmic ordering and the Christian practice of prayer, the Bishop says that prayer should not be seen as a form of “heavenly shopping trolley”.

[AlterNet.org] The Commercialization of Christmas: What Would Jesus Buy? | Media ...: A camera crew followed the Reverend Billy across the country as he preached against our shopping-hungry culture. His message is just in time for the holiday frenzy.

[Penelope Trunk's Brazen Careerist] Five things people say about Christmas that drive me nuts ...: Your comment under #5 was ”¦”I tell you this so that you understand what it’s like to be a minority.” Not until you open your mouth by exclaiming what you believe is when you become a minority”¦how about just being born with more pigment in your skin, being sneered at jeered at not being able to get a job to complain whether or not I want a floating holidays”¦I’m just glad to live in a country where this topic can be debated openly, publicy w/o living in fear and a state of war outside my door, being killed for sharing what you believe”¦being killed if I was caught blogging”¦it’s crazy”¦this is America”¦

[outaroad.com] OutAroad.com: Denis Hamill calls Michael Jackson An Evil Genius: I am humbled to be lecturing in a place that has previously been filled by such notable figures as Mother Theresa, Albert Einstein, Ronald Reagan, Robert Kennedy and Malcolm X. I’ve even heard that Kermit the Frog has made an appearance here, and I’ve always felt a kinship with Kermit’s message that it’s not easy being green.

[WE Blog] Open thread 12/23 | WE Blog | Wichita Eagle Blogs: This blog is mainly for the use of name calling and not thoughtful dissertations. Such thoughts are not truly paid attention to, so holding to the need for proper grammar and usage is a waste and the thoughts are often bypassed in favor of reading a select few calling each other Rat fooker!

[Pajamas Media] Pajamas Media » A Call to Arms for Parents Upset About Obama's ...: DAVID S.(talinist)VIVIOT,and other supporters of brainwashing children:This is a great “teaching moment”.You can use this attempt at state indoctrination of children,by turning off the volume,and then playing a recording of Pee Wee Herman,Monty Python’s retarded Mr. Gumby,Curly, from the three stooges,or similar clownish figures,while the O’hole reads his teleprompter.This would serve as a useful exercise in ridiculing this pathetic,affirmative action,castro wannabe,using ridicule to inoculate children from this con man’s lies.

[SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog] SEOmoz | The Anatomy of a RipOff Report Lawsuit: With a group pulled together, a list of names of people who are willing to stand together against the injustice that is being done to companies and individuals while allowing Ed to hide behind this law, may bring a lawyer out who would want the case and also a new law into affect to disallow this type of behavior. Maintain our law, but hold responsible the "Eds"

[Mises Economics Blog] Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Atlas Shrugged movie? - Dick Clark ...: There are other things that people have grown to believe are acceptable when in fact they are not:::::This society is desinged to corrupt individuals, be it through materialism, the celebration/acceptance of evil (Halloween), desensitization of topics/images, voyerism/celebration of people's misery, the acceptance of casual/alternate sex, the dietization of a prophet (Jesus). People need to realize that the gods made this behavior socially acceptable to corrupt people society-wide and limit the time everybody receives.

[Save the Cat!®] Save the Cat!® » Blog Archive » The First Save the Cat! Contest of ...: Director Ripper of the Uncle Sam Studios is delusional and initiates a plan to purposefully film a bomb movie disguised as an independent, hoping to thwart a Indie conspiracy to “drain the precious box office receipts” of the American public with bottled water, but once the Studio President finds out the plot, attempts to stop the remote crew from filming before it is too late, with disastrous results.

[Spectrum Blog] What the Public Really Says about Adventist Evangelism | Spectrum: I know that a lot of the second and third generation Adventists are embarrassed by the distinctive teachings of Adventism and want to tone down the emphasis of Adventism on prophecy, biblical creationism, the blood atonement, the second coming of Christ, the warning of coming judgment upon the unbelieving world, and the call to "come out from among" the ecumenical movement which rejects the entire Protestant Movement as merely a silly debate over the meaning of justification by grace alone through faith alone in the sinless life and atoning death of Christ alone. But I would not go back to my former life for anything.

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