Update XVIII: 15 Miles From Lunch

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

I'm home from a productive day at work.  Tonight, instead of watching sports, I am going to watch a couple Christmas movies - The Muppet Christmas Carol and Rudolph.

At least when you were watching porn, that was age appropriate. I think it's the only adult thing you've done in all these years of Update.

To be honest, I'd rather approach most everything about Christmas as a child.  All except for the presents.  Approaching Christmas as a child secures the joy and excitement as December 25 approaches.  I love approaching the celebration of the birth of my Savior Jesus Christ as a child.  In fact, Jesus commands us in the Gospels that we cannot enter the kingdom of God except with the heart and mind of a little child.  The reason is children are generally more trusting and less tainted by the world than adults.  That's why I embrace the child-like comparisons of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.

Hmmm, so Jesus wants us with the critical reasoning and blind-adherence of a child? That makes the whole thing make so much more sense.

[Mr. Morden]

In fact, Jesus commands us in the Gospels that we cannot enter the kingdom of God except with the heart and mind of a little child.  The reason is children are generally more trusting and less tainted by the world than adults.

So being fooled by scams puts you on the fast track to heaven?  You're well on your way then. 

[Joe Biden 2020]

I'm home from a productive day at work.  Tonight, instead of watching sports, I am going to watch a couple Christmas movies - The Muppet Christmas Carol and Rudolph.

At least when you were watching porn, that was age appropriate. I think it's the only adult thing you've done in all these years of Update.

To be honest, I'd rather approach most everything about Christmas as a child.  All except for the presents.  Approaching Christmas as a child secures the joy and excitement as December 25 approaches.  I love approaching the celebration of the birth of my Savior Jesus Christ as a child.  In fact, Jesus commands us in the Gospels that we cannot enter the kingdom of God except with the heart and mind of a little child.  The reason is children are generally more trusting and less tainted by the world than adults.  That's why I embrace the child-like comparisons of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.

Hmmm, so Jesus wants us with the critical reasoning and blind-adherence of a child? That makes the whole thing make so much more sense.

There are certainly some things, indeed most things that we are to be adults about.  The Apostle Paul says that in 1 Corinthians 13:11 - "When I was a child, I spake like a child, I understood like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things."  This is for everything except our faith in Jesus Christ.  We are to approach faith in Jesus as a child approaches his daddy.  It is sometimes a delicate balance.  I treat Christmas as part of my faith, so that's why I approach it as a child.

[Lief 🗽]

Watching Rudolph is part of your faith?

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I'm home from a productive day at work.  Tonight, instead of watching sports, I am going to watch a couple Christmas movies - The Muppet Christmas Carol and Rudolph.

At least when you were watching porn, that was age appropriate. I think it's the only adult thing you've done in all these years of Update.

To be honest, I'd rather approach most everything about Christmas as a child.  All except for the presents.  Approaching Christmas as a child secures the joy and excitement as December 25 approaches.  I love approaching the celebration of the birth of my Savior Jesus Christ as a child.  In fact, Jesus commands us in the Gospels that we cannot enter the kingdom of God except with the heart and mind of a little child.  The reason is children are generally more trusting and less tainted by the world than adults.  That's why I embrace the child-like comparisons of Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter.

Hmmm, so Jesus wants us with the critical reasoning and blind-adherence of a child? That makes the whole thing make so much more sense.

There are certainly some things, indeed most things that we are to be adults about.  The Apostle Paul says that in 1 Corinthians 13:11 - "When I was a child, I spake like a child, I understood like a child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things."  This is for everything except our faith in Jesus Christ.  We are to approach faith in Jesus as a child approaches his daddy.  It is sometimes a delicate balance.  I treat Christmas as part of my faith, so that's why I approach it as a child.

You treat Christmas as part of your consumption, Bushie, which you mistake for genuine faith. You consume religion as a product.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Watching Rudolph is part of your faith?

It's not a main course, but it's a pleasant side dish.

[Mr. Morden]

Watching Rudolph is part of your faith?

It's not a main course, but it's a pleasant side dish.

Unless you think Rudolph is real, I don't see how it's part of your faith at all.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Watching Rudolph is part of your faith?

It's not a main course, but it's a pleasant side dish.

Unless you think Rudolph is real, I don't see how it's part of your faith at all.

It's just a fun movie to watch.  Same with Santa Clause is Coming to Town and Frosty the Snowman.  I don't pay any more attention than that to the commercial part of Christmas, but I devote the rest of my energy and focus to the real reason for Christmas - Jesus.

[Adam Griffin]

Well, as we've already been over in both this specific case and in a broader sense, you act like a child at Christmas because you are under-developed mentally and literally a manchild.

Does it seriously not give you pause to consider that a) there is no logical evidence to suggest that a man named Jesus would have been born in December in the climate of the Levant 2000 years ago (based on the tale of the shepherds tending their flocks), and that b) Christians did not celebrate Christmas until those idolaters known as Catholics adopted the celebration from Pagans in order to convince them to convert?

#callmeascroogeanddeflect

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

Well, as we've already been over in both this specific case and in a broader sense, you act like a child at Christmas because you are under-developed mentally and literally a manchild.

Does it seriously not give you pause to consider that a) there is no logical evidence to suggest that a man named Jesus would have been born in December in the climate of the Levant 2000 years ago (based on the tale of the shepherds tending their flocks), and that b) Christians did not celebrate Christmas until those idolaters known as Catholics adopted the celebration from Pagans in order to convince them to convert?

#callmeascroogeanddeflect

In fact Bushie ... read these

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia

I'm assuming your bible 'study' didn't touch on any of this?

[Joe Biden 2020]

Adam and Polnut. are you seriously attacking my love of Christmas and my faith at Christmastime?

[patrick1]

Well, as we've already been over in both this specific case and in a broader sense, you act like a child at Christmas because you are under-developed mentally and literally a manchild.

Does it seriously not give you pause to consider that a) there is no logical evidence to suggest that a man named Jesus would have been born in December in the climate of the Levant 2000 years ago (based on the tale of the shepherds tending their flocks), and that b) Christians did not celebrate Christmas until those idolaters known as Catholics adopted the celebration from Pagans in order to convince them to convert?

#callmeascroogeanddeflect

Heretic,  eh if only my boys the Dominicans were still running the Inquisition.

[memphis]

Jesus commands us in the Gospels that we cannot enter the kingdom of God except with the heart and mind of a little child. 

I did not know this. It explains a lot about the world we live in. Thank you.

[Adam Griffin]

Adam and Polnut. are you seriously attacking my love of Christmas and my faith at Christmastime?

1) It's not 'Christmastime'; it's the middle of November.
2) You still haven't answered how you reconcile your faith with the fact that the Bible says nothing about when Jesus was born, that the holiday you and others have arbitrarily chosen to associate with it is of pagan origin and is one that essentially encourages idolatry/iconography, nor have you explained how this contradictory behavior when reading Luke 22:19 will guarantee you a fate any different than that of any other pagan or idol worshiper.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

In absolute fairness to Bushie, this sort of quibbling about the probable date of birth of the 'Historical Jesus' as an attempt to discredit the observance of the Feast of the Nativity, which much like the Hana-matsuri is fixed when it is by tradition and symbolic import, is absolutely ridiculous and petty hair-splitting properly of no real relevance whatsoever to the life of the Church.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Adam and Polnut. are you seriously attacking my love of Christmas and my faith at Christmastime?

1) It's not 'Christmastime'; it's the middle of November.
2) You still haven't answered how you reconcile your faith with the fact that the Bible says nothing about when Jesus was born, that the holiday you and others have arbitrarily chosen to associate with it is of pagan origin and is one that essentially encourages idolatry/iconography, nor have you explained how this contradictory behavior when reading Luke 22:19 will guarantee you a fate any different than that of any other pagan or idol worshiper.

I'm not going to answer your questions.  Questions that are designed to make fun of my faith for celebrating Christmas when we do.  You don't want the answers, you just want to make fun of Christians and point your finger and laugh at our 'folly'.

[Adam Griffin]

In absolute fairness to Bushie, this sort of quibbling about the probable date of birth of the 'Historical Jesus' as an attempt to discredit the observance of the Feast of the Nativity, which much like the Hana-matsuri is fixed when it is by tradition and symbolic import, is absolutely ridiculous and petty hair-splitting properly of no real relevance whatsoever to the life of the Church.

The more important of the two points - as I thought was emphasized - is Bushie's own admission that he engages in pagan worship for half of the year to indulge his sense of child-like wonderment, which is merely a small glimpse into his greater belief that he is justified to define and do anything he likes or agrees with as being "good" or "appropriate". He reconciles his hedonism and idolatry with his faith, morbidly twists the two former together with the latter based on his own individual perspective, and tries to sell that to others as if it's some sort of universal truth.

[Adam Griffin]

Adam and Polnut. are you seriously attacking my love of Christmas and my faith at Christmastime?

1) It's not 'Christmastime'; it's the middle of November.
2) You still haven't answered how you reconcile your faith with the fact that the Bible says nothing about when Jesus was born, that the holiday you and others have arbitrarily chosen to associate with it is of pagan origin and is one that essentially encourages idolatry/iconography, nor have you explained how this contradictory behavior when reading Luke 22:19 will guarantee you a fate any different than that of any other pagan or idol worshiper.

I'm not going to answer your questions.  Questions that are designed to make fun of my faith for celebrating Christmas when we do.  You don't want the answers, you just want to make fun of Christians and point your finger and laugh at our 'folly'.

You're not going to answer them because you don't want to admit the truth. You are a hedonist who - even more so than the average worshiper due to the length of time which you insist on doing it - indulges in pagan worship and idolatry because you like pretty lights, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, gifts you don't deserve and having an extra boost of coddled, child-like comfort injected into your already over-pampered life. It has nothing to do with your perceived religion; it has everything to do with your hedonistic tendencies. I hope for your own sake that your faith is wrong, because if it isn't, you are most certainly Hell-bound for this and many other reasons.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

In absolute fairness to Bushie, this sort of quibbling about the probable date of birth of the 'Historical Jesus' as an attempt to discredit the observance of the Feast of the Nativity, which much like the Hana-matsuri is fixed when it is by tradition and symbolic import, is absolutely ridiculous and petty hair-splitting properly of no real relevance whatsoever to the life of the Church.

The more important of the two points - as I thought was emphasized - is Bushie's own admission that he engages in pagan worship for half of the year to indulge his sense of child-like wonderment, which is merely a small glimpse into his greater belief that he is justified to define and do anything he likes or agrees with as being "good" or "appropriate". He reconciles his hedonism and idolatry with his faith, morbidly twists the two former together with the latter based on his own individual perspective, and tries to sell that to others as if it's some sort of universal truth.

No real argument there. (I don't think the traditional observation of Christmas is necessarily pagan but that's because I'm Anglo-Catholic; in the context of a theology as snake-belly Low as Bushie's it's obviously much less excusable.) See my first post on this page. The quibbling over the date of Christmas thing is just a pet peeve of mine.

[J-Mann]

Adam and Polnut. are you seriously attacking my love of Christmas and my faith at Christmastime?

I'm trying to reconcile how you can be very firm about the "historical" truth of Mary, which is mentioned nowhere in the Bible (though is probably closer to the truth than the traditional depictions of her), yet you reject other proven or likely histories, ie: "Christmas" is born of a pagan celebration, Christmas imagery is totally pagan and Jesus, according to historians who study the available evidence, was probably born in the summer or early fall.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Adam and Polnut. are you seriously attacking my love of Christmas and my faith at Christmastime?

I'm trying to reconcile how you can be very firm about the "historical" truth of Mary, which is mentioned nowhere in the Bible (though is probably closer to the truth than the traditional depictions of her), yet you reject other proven or likely histories, ie: "Christmas" is born of a pagan celebration, Christmas imagery is totally pagan and Jesus, according to historians who study the available evidence, was probably born in the summer or early fall.

Simple. He adheres to a theology that's more comfortable with having claymation reindeer near the Godhead than women.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Another night, another night of ridiculing me and attacking me endlessly and for no good reason.  You guys are hopeless.

[J-Mann]

Another night, another night of ridiculing me and attacking me endlessly and for no good reason.  You guys are hopeless.

Welcome to our world. Frustrating, eh?

Since when is asking a question considered ridicule? I guess when you know you won't like the answer, it can be considered an attack ...

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

We have plenty good reason. Your 'faith' is a vapid husk and it's making your life even worse.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Newsflash:  My life is going great right now.  I have nothing to be worried about and everything to be thankful for.