Xmas? Really?

Jesus fuck, that John Castle persona is getting tedious.

Exactly.

You don't pay me to talk pretty.

1. "Christ" -mas.
2. The purpose for creating the holiday, which, whether you choose to believe it or not, is the reason for the holiday. The thought that you have the right to argue that it shouldn't be is arrogant at best.

He'll come up with another one soon enough.

No...sorry...

For one, yeah, it was stolen from Pagans.

For another, throughout the centuries, churchy people have hated the thing, and even gotten it banned a couple times.
It's only in the past hundred and some change years, that it was even revived, and evolved into what it is.
Lot of it had to do with Queen Victoria, and that had to do with King Edward bringing over all the German stuff.

...and German "Christmas", is hella Pagan.

Thirdly, if you've ever celebrated American, materialist, capitalist-gangbang Christmas complete with Santa, and Grinch....Jesus probably hates you.

Yep, goin' ta Hell.
Yep, it was that easy.

Actually, this brings up a point I'd like to make.

A lot of people who make the argument that Rick is making use the excuse that it's a traditional time for families to see each other, enjoy each others' company. That's what Thanksgiving is for. And numerous other holidays which support the same idea of family time.

Looking at the difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas through secular goggles, the only difference is gift-giving. Ironically enough. So what you're really wanting to keep is the consumerism, the money other people spend on you. You want stuff, and don't want to have to pay for it.

Nope, I want what I said I want. If I wanted something other than what I said I want, I would have said I want something else. Ain't that the damnedest thing?

What I want has got nothing to do with it.
If the corporations didn't have Christmas to assfuck, they'd bump it down another holiday, and if you got rid of 'em all, they'd MAKE one.
It'd be blatant too, it'd be called "SHOP!!".

Uh huh, and pulling the Chevy emblem off the back of a Citation and replacing it with a Porsche emblem doesn't suddenly make said car a high performance machine. The festivals celebrated on Christmas have more to do with Saturnalia and winter Solstice than it does Christmas. The wreath, the tree, the yule log, the lights, the feasting, the gift giving, all Saturnalia. Like most things in this country, it's "Christian" in name only. Any asshole can throw a name on someone else's holiday and claim it for themselves. That doesn't make them a correct asshole, only a loud, obnoxious one.

Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winnah! Except Jesus can't hate. But he wants to hate. But he can't hate. Which makes Jesus do like this:

And it gets crazier still:

So like a dedicated Christian, John Castle wants to put the Christ back in Christmas. Why he won't just admit this is beyond me.

Shut up and go back to being the table.

..that will be exactly the same as all his other ones.

And yet, in some superficial and ultimately trivial way, EXCITINGLY DIFFERENT!

You'd think the cops would just hide near those signs until Roman Polanski shows up for an easy pickup.