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hnpccFrom Slacktivist, "outraged" "Christians" sing a pagan song to celebrate Christmas.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee provided an opening for the latest display of Christianists’ perpetual indignation by referring to the large fir tree in the statehouse as a "holiday tree"
After Chafee lit the "holiday" tree, a few dozen carolers interrupted a performance by a children’s chorus to sing "O Christmas Tree."
"He’s trying to put our religion down," said Ken Schiano of Cranston, who came to the tree lighting after hearing about the controversy.
And what better way to defend our religion, he decided, than by singing, "O Christmas Tree" - a thoroughly secular holiday song that has as much to do with religion as "White Christmas" or "Merry Christmas Baby."
So for these Christianists, the best way they could think of to promote their sectarian view was to sing a secular song in defense of a Pagan symbol.
And for many reasons this makes me laugh. A lot. And also reminds me that I need to buy a tree off the scouts this weekend and find where I put the tinsel.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee provided an opening for the latest display of Christianists’ perpetual indignation by referring to the large fir tree in the statehouse as a "holiday tree"
After Chafee lit the "holiday" tree, a few dozen carolers interrupted a performance by a children’s chorus to sing "O Christmas Tree."
"He’s trying to put our religion down," said Ken Schiano of Cranston, who came to the tree lighting after hearing about the controversy.
And what better way to defend our religion, he decided, than by singing, "O Christmas Tree" - a thoroughly secular holiday song that has as much to do with religion as "White Christmas" or "Merry Christmas Baby."
So for these Christianists, the best way they could think of to promote their sectarian view was to sing a secular song in defense of a Pagan symbol.
And for many reasons this makes me laugh. A lot. And also reminds me that I need to buy a tree off the scouts this weekend and find where I put the tinsel.
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Date: 2011-12-23 11:24 am (UTC)(Was just curious as to who had replied to my comment :-)
And I worked out what CFA is by asking the googorical, and yes, have an inkling of how you might be feeling.