Who Needs Christ During Christmas?

Who needs Christ during Christmas?

 

This isn't really a question being posed by atheists, it's a sad statement.  As such, it does not deserve an answer because one was not asked for.  I try to show tolerance to all beliefs as long as the practice of said belief peaceful and non-antagonistic. Some atheists do go about their daily lives peacefully, not making, or taking, issue with another person's belief set.  But, this "statement" is an attack on Christian belief. 

 

You only have to look at the sign to feel the intolerant hatred dripping from it.  Where we Christians want Christ on Christmas, they leave no doubt that they do not.  I say want, not need, because Christ is already here; we just want to feel more of Him.  Nobody truly needs Christ, we all already have Him.  He was God's gift to us, everyone!  But, where we care that he died for all of us, the atheist chooses not to care.  It is their right to make their choice, and we should respect it.  You reap what you sew, in this life and in the next.

 

When I think of atheists, I always wonder who they would scream for when the Viet Cong would drag their broken body into the interrogation room for another round of "rotate broken leg on yanqui dog 180 degrees."  After a while you become oblivious to the screams that are deafening you.  You begin to wonder whose screams keep waking you up.  With any mercy, you won't come to realize they're your own.

 

Surely they wouldn't scream for God's mercy, and God knows the Viet Cong would just laugh at any plea directed their way as they began another round of "180 Degrees" just to see if you would pass out and keep screaming, again.  Or, like Senator John McCain, maybe they'll hang you up by your elbows for days on end, until you permanently lose the ability to raise your arms higher than your chest and, with that, the ability to ever again salute the flag you love so much.  With any luck you'll die before the pain gets bad enough for you to, hypocritically, find comfort with a God you deny so you can make it through the years of captivity and torture to someday return home, crippled but alive. 

 

Even if this was a question and did require an answer, it would be difficult to form one with words small enough for most of this group to comprehend, much less understand.  I say this not to be flip, but I think trying to discuss religion with the segment of atheists shoveling this antagonistic drivel, would be like trying to discuss forgiveness and appropriateness with the congregation of the Westboro Baptist Church.  They don't represent all Baptist, any more than these atheist malcontents speak for all atheists.  Having read their posts, I fear that having any discussion with them would require a rain slicker due to the amount of vehement spit and foam they'll spray as they launch epithet  upon epithet in your general direction, while they fight off an aneurysm, trying to create some semblance of an argument to counter your belief in a deity.  Have you ever read some of their online content?  If you're a lady with genteel sensibilities, don't. And, as a Christian, you probably won't enjoy the hateful tone and lack of rhetorical content. 

 

What they, this particular segment of atheists, refuse to understand is that we really don't give a flying pooh what they think, or believe, as much as they'd like us to.  We feel they have the right to believe what they want, just as we do.  We'd just like them to do it in peace, shut the heck up about it, and show a little tolerance.  Christians, in general, tend to ignore these jibes from the atheists and feel the comments not worthy of having to fall far enough to make a defensive effort.  I think this effort, if made, would equate to offering a meaty bone to a rabid pit bull.  The dog will ignore the juicy bone in preference of ripping your head off.  Perhaps if the atheists behaved more like the Satanist, with a sense of mutual respect and propriety, the effort might seem worthwhile.

To quote Bill O'Reilly, "And that's tonight's Talking Points Memo."  As always, this is just my opinion, I could be wrong; doubtful, but I could be.