Christmas, a holiday of sin

I get so sick of Christian zealots condemning Halloween as the devil's holiday while they continue to promote Christmas as something sacred.  Christmas is in NO way sacred and if you really look at it, even the most pious would question it.

For starters, it's supposed to be a celebration of Jesus being born.  So what's with the tree?  What does decorating a fir tree have to do with Jesus?  NOTHING.  Decorating trees, holly wreaths on the door, mistletoe, even Christmas lights all began as PAGAN rituals most likely to celebrate nature and protect against winter.  No Jesus involved.  Yet if you don't put up a Christmas tree or question why they do, Christians will blacklist you because you must be against Christmas and Christmas is always unfairly under attack...

And where in the Bible does it say Jesus was born December 25?  No where.  That's just a date someone picked at random because it either made sense financially or it coincided with, you guessed it, a PAGAN ritual.

And Santa Claus?  The whole gift giving thing?  Pagan.  Rudolf and Frosty were created by advertisers to sell you stuff.  Capitalism has nothing to do with Jesus yet Christmas is big business and Christians will fight tooth and nail for their right to spend a bunch of money they aren't supposed to love to put presents under a tree they aren't supposed to have.

Every church ceremony, every carol sung began as paganism that early Christians incorporated into their worship to win converts to their faith.  Like it or not, that's the TRUTH about religion and our holidays reflect that.

What's the difference between Christmas paganism and Halloween paganism? There isn't one.  Shut up about how evil Halloween is and just enjoy the fact that you have a holiday to break up the monotony of your crappy life.

Islam deserves ISIS

I know this sounds hateful, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense.  ISIS is God's judgement against Islam.

That so many in the Middle East continue to live in massive poverty despite the region's wealth is a judgement from God.  That the region has been at war with itself and it's neighbors for centuries and the only ones suffering are those living in the Middle East is God's judgement against jihad.  That Islam has become reviled because of its support of terrorism, is God telling Muslims to knock it off.

When your people use religion to justify murdering children, how can you not expect the world to respond in kind?  How can you blame those you attack when your actions lead your own children to suffer?  God is speaking to you, Islamists, but you're not listening.

If we look closely at what jihad and the groups who support it are saying, the belief is that jihad is the murdering of those who don't follow Islam and is ordained by God.  But what majority of people do groups like the Taliban kill?  MUSLIMS! So jihadists aren't really defending the Muslim faith.  How can they be?

Jihadists and groups like the Taliban, Hamas, Al Qaeda, etc are only after two things: money and power.  And as more Muslims continue to erroneously attribute their selfish actions to God, the more God allows them to suffer massive hardships.  God has spoken and He doesn't approve of Islam.

Maybe it was different a long time ago.  Maybe Islam was once a bastion of knowledge and had a promising future.  Maybe the Arab world was once a mighty one, but as Islam went to the darkside, as it corrupted God's name for evil purposes, God took all that away as punishment.  And ISIS, that army of evil that is currently slaughtering the "chosen" people of God?  Well, that's just one more example of God trying to tell Muslims something they refuse to hear.

Their lives are always going to suck and they will never again be a mighty people as long as they continue doing what they do.  As long as Islam supports jihad, as long as they treat women as slaves, as long as they fly planes into buildings and strap bombs onto children, God is going to keep judging them.

And judging by how rough He's been so far, it's safe to say He DOES NOT APPROVE.