You can't make this stuff up!

This blog originally posted Thursday, November 30, 2006

Current mood: weird Category: Religion and Philosophy

About two weeks ago, the news reported that the Marines Toys for Tots program that gives toys to underpriveleged children for Christmas turned down a donation of 4000 stuffed Jesus dolls that say bible verses when you squeeze them. Christian groups promptly got up in arms about this.

Several comments on this:

1. The spokesman for toys for tots actually said something along the lines of, "What if a muslim, jewish, or athiest kid got one of these for Christmas." !?!?!?!? What the heck is a muslim or jewish kid or one who doesn't believe in God celebrating Christmas for?

2. What does Jesus have to do with Christmas anyway (sarcasm) Disregard the first six letters in Christmas.

3. For all of the Christians who promptly got upset and called in to talk radio about this.... How come you aren't offended that someone made a goofy stuffed doll out representing your Lord and Savior? Somebody actually reduced the Creator of the Universe to a pithy toy. There is so much wrong with that, I don't even know where to begin.

4. At least it was a stuffed Jesus doll. God forbid they tried to make it fair and make a stuffed Mohamed doll. There would have been riots, car bombs and random killings. Not sure what we'd stuff for Jews. We could give athiests empty boxes since they don't believe in anything. Buddhists could get a stuffed Buddah, but they'd just give it away in their search for nothingness. Maybe the Hindus have us all on this one - they believe in thousands of Gods, so they can get a lot of toys for Christmas.

Where does this stuff come from????? Why do Christians have to get all up in arms about the trivial and miss the core of their beliefs? How did a holiday celebrating the core beliefs of one religion get taken over by everyone else? I don't celebrate Ramadan. I don't bathe in the Ganges or dance down the streets of Calcutta slashing myself. I don't fly prayer flags on Everest. Not that I'm ripping on them, just wondering why they bothered to hijack someone else's holy day.

How did we end up as such a goofy society.

Only in America.