12/15/2005
Christmas.
No I haven't done my Christmas shopping yet and I'm hoping there's a few of you out there who are are in the same boat as me?!
That aside, and I've always been a last minute street/internet shopper, this is my favorite holiday of the whole year!
I really don't mind the cold weather, the snow, the wet slushy streets of New York, the hustle and bustle of shoppers, the commerce, the giving of presents, the cooking (yes I do a traditional English Christmas breakfast, dinner and dessert!), the beer, the wine, the sherry, the port and strong foreign cheeses, the crackers, the silly hats and the really bad TV!
They are all in essence a brilliant distraction from the supposed "real" message of Christmas!
That is the birth of a fictional saviour deemed by his fictional father to one day descend on our world to save us all from our sins! Utter "poppycock" and fairy tale fantasy rubbish as far as I'm concerned!
I was raised as a God fearing Catholic from childhood but in my formative teenage years quickly began to realize that "atheism" was my true calling to live my one and only life!
Long live sin and all the immoral consequences that follow their act!
It's good to sin! Good to live outside the bastions of bullshit codes, standards and rules that govern our very conscience!
Look at the world the so-called "sin-less" people have created since the dawn of time and since their last confession!
Why in 2000 years is more than half the planet still starving?
Why are our fathers, mothers, sons and daughters massacring each other for something that is nothing more than an ideal?
Why do we act like herded sheep at the beckon call to the media, the politic and the religions of the planet?
What has mankind learned from the fiction sold to us?
Enslaved us to a system? Hoodwinked our inner being to follow the "yellow brick road to 'Golgotha'" and feel contrite after dabbing our fingers in stale water to genuflect on bended knee? To offer peace to our our brothers before they rape us with debt or an AK47 or M16?
Maybe instead of listening to sermons, to the Christmas carols to the preacher on cable TV we should open up out hearts, our minds and listen to ourselves?
Maybe listen to "Imagine" by John Lennon and then look each other in the eye as we wish each other a very Merry, Happy Christmas!
"Happy Holidays!"
That aside, and I've always been a last minute street/internet shopper, this is my favorite holiday of the whole year!
I really don't mind the cold weather, the snow, the wet slushy streets of New York, the hustle and bustle of shoppers, the commerce, the giving of presents, the cooking (yes I do a traditional English Christmas breakfast, dinner and dessert!), the beer, the wine, the sherry, the port and strong foreign cheeses, the crackers, the silly hats and the really bad TV!
They are all in essence a brilliant distraction from the supposed "real" message of Christmas!
That is the birth of a fictional saviour deemed by his fictional father to one day descend on our world to save us all from our sins! Utter "poppycock" and fairy tale fantasy rubbish as far as I'm concerned!
I was raised as a God fearing Catholic from childhood but in my formative teenage years quickly began to realize that "atheism" was my true calling to live my one and only life!
Long live sin and all the immoral consequences that follow their act!
It's good to sin! Good to live outside the bastions of bullshit codes, standards and rules that govern our very conscience!
Look at the world the so-called "sin-less" people have created since the dawn of time and since their last confession!
Why in 2000 years is more than half the planet still starving?
Why are our fathers, mothers, sons and daughters massacring each other for something that is nothing more than an ideal?
Why do we act like herded sheep at the beckon call to the media, the politic and the religions of the planet?
What has mankind learned from the fiction sold to us?
Enslaved us to a system? Hoodwinked our inner being to follow the "yellow brick road to 'Golgotha'" and feel contrite after dabbing our fingers in stale water to genuflect on bended knee? To offer peace to our our brothers before they rape us with debt or an AK47 or M16?
Maybe instead of listening to sermons, to the Christmas carols to the preacher on cable TV we should open up out hearts, our minds and listen to ourselves?
Maybe listen to "Imagine" by John Lennon and then look each other in the eye as we wish each other a very Merry, Happy Christmas!
"Happy Holidays!"
