[irrelig]Just in time for the season, we cover the angelic annunciation, Jesus’s trip down Mary’s perpetually virginal birth canal, Herod’s slaughter of the innocents, the Magi’s visit, Joseph and Mary’s flight to Egypt, and Jesus’s rocket ride from Krypton.
All in one nice little tidy package wrapped up in a bow. Merry X-mas!
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11 Responses to “45: The Nativity”
after listening to this podcast it really upsets me how stupid people are. I have to keep myself from blowing up at work when I am told I can not celebrate this holiday because of my atheist views, I was left out of our gift exchange because of this. I AM A FUCKING SCIENTIST! I WORK IN A GODDAMN LAB WITH SMART PEOPLE WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?!!! Keep up the good work and thanks for the ammo!
Yeah, people have to realize that the secularization of Christmas is not part of some “war,” just a long-standing tradition of swiping sweet holidays — in this particular case, it was started by the Christians when they first swiped Saturnalia. Christmas is no more “their” holiday than Groundhog’s Day.
Wonderful idea, Charley! From now on, we don’t include Christians on the new atheist only holiday: Groundhog’s Day! They will rue the day for taking Christmas from us.
Long live Bill Murray as the new Messiah!
Hmm. Zombie Bill Murray may take over as mascot of Irreligiosophy when Mike the Walrus steps down.
Mike the Walrus is incapable of stepping down… even in the face of imminent death.
However, Groundhog Day being the official holiday for atheist would be great as it sums up the feeling of being an atheist in this country (America).
James has a point. Mike, although I’m pretty sure he’s a seal and not a walrus, spent himself to death. There should be a memorial set up lest we forget. Zombie Bill Murray, even if I do think the guy is hilarious, can get in line behind the gay penguins.
Now that Groundhog Day is our official holiday, we must decide how we should celebrate it and how we can exclude the Christians.
haha… I can’t believe I said he was the walrus. Ah well… that was a while ago when I listened to that podcast.
But I really mean it about Groundhog Day being an atheist holiday of sorts. Not something to be venerated but a rebellion against the status quo of Christmas and Easter and Hanukkah and every other religious celebration forcing me to confront the people I love’s idiocy in their beliefs makes me feel like I am Bill Murray in Groundhog Day.
I really love them and I enjoy the time together at the holidays but when they talk about being angry about how “they” are taking the Christ out of Christmas it makes me want to stab people.
History has destroyed not only my love of fiction, but my sociability as well.
Ha, we’re all wrong. Mike was a sea lion.
yahoo news had a big announcement about a “jesus era home” being found on the site of Nazareth. I know there’s some doubt about whether or not Nazareth even existed as a city/town when Jesus was alive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth#Earliest_history
Very interesting. I knew there was a question about Bethlehem’s existence at the time (archaeological digs show no evidence of habitation during Jesus’s reported birth time), but I didn’t know the same may be true for Nazareth.
On the other hand, Jesus’s reference as a “Nazarene” may simply be a misconstrual of prior references to Jesus the “Nazorean,” which was an anti-Roman cult active around the time of Jesus’s supposed existence.