Via Insty:
“As a Buddhist, this is beautiful. Christians really do need to stand up and reclaim Christmas because big business and human greed have transformed a spiritual beautiful day into a month long binge eating and booze fest, and its quite simply very sad, and I say this as a Buddhist.”
I’m thinking (with slight apology to my Tribe Readers) that the slogan for this reclamation effort should be: “Next Year In Bethlehem”.
And I say this as an atheist.
I can ‘t stop thinking about two hundred million pilgrims from the United States alone flooding into Bethlehem; wonder if the Israelis will re-open JRS, I don’t think TLV could handle the influx.
As the guys at Wally World and Amazon close out the festive holiday season with “What a Friend We Have In Jesus.”
I say this as a Keltic Valhalla-ist:
* [chuckles while oiling sharp tools]