Sunday, December 29, 2013

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas!

 I hope you all had a merry Christmas, despite atheistical attempts to drive God out of business through billboarding. "This Season," runs one snappy slogan, "Celebrate Reason!" which is part of a broader ad campaign called, curiously enough, "Out of the Closet." This hopes to make isolated, lonely, atheists feel that they've got company. 

HO HO HO!

It's news to me that they haven't but that aside, imagine, with "This Season, Celebrate Reason!" ringing in our minds, we could cozily warm our secularist toes by the fire, all the while merrily unwrapping treatises on number theory by Bertrand Russell, and that's before the jolly feast of roast tofu that's basting away in the oven. So much more reasonable than patriarchal superstition about Virgin births, miraculous stars and wandering astrologers; to say nothing of what Marx called the "bourgeois claptrap" of a traditional family—a husband, wife and children gathered around a decorated tree to celebrate God becoming Man. Get rid of this primitive nonsense, say the authors of the oddly named ad campaign and replace it with something sensible, like reason. 

Adoration of the Child, Correggio

You may or may not be pleased to know that Team LSP managed to avoid the heady lure of our godless marketeers and stuck with celebrating the birth of Christ.

Gloria in excelsis Deo!

God bless,

LSP

7 comments:

  1. You may or may not be pleased to know that Team LSP managed to avoid the heady lure of our godless marketeers and stuck with celebrating the birth of Christ.

    I'm so proud of you!!

    Is that your tree? Gorgeous!

    And if that's is your tree then the desk is yours too. I WANT YOUR DESK!!!

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  2. Thanks, Adrienne.

    Glad you like the tree and desk and hope you had a VERY Merry Christmas!

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  3. Funny, after reading Adrienne's comment, I realize my hyperaesthesia is with the art -I can't help make a judgement on the quality

    Observationally, I've noticed the knack of a minister's child in managing to acquire expensive work

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  4. Ah, reason. Between 1914 and 1918 Europe fought WW1. It was the War to end all Wars. Twenty-five years later Europe did it all over again. Not much reason or rationalism evidenced by human behaviour in the last hundred years then. Atheists cling to their blind Faith in human 'reason', despite the evidence.

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  5. The pic's from the family Redoubt in Dallas, 3rd News (& Adrienne) -- "acquire"? I've been spectacularly bad at that, though I've had a go from time to time. Mostly i just want guns these days, and a horse safari.

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  6. They sure do, Anonymous, and almost always seem to produce the exact opposite of their intended result.

    Cheers.

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