{"id":1017,"date":"2008-12-24T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-25T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2020-12-26T00:03:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T05:03:58","slug":"happy-holiday-goyim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/happy-holiday-goyim\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holiday, Goyim!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every December 25, I get into the holiday spirit by reminiscing about an idiot I knew in my freshman year of college. This self-described born-again Christian once went into a rant about the secularization of Christmas as symbolized by the use of “Xmas.” She thought that evil secular people had X’d the “Christ” out of Christmas. She didn’t know that the Greek letter “X” — the first letter in the Greek spelling of “Christ” — has been used as shorthand for “Christ” for centuries<\/a>. No one X’d the Christ out of Christmas; X IS<\/span> Christ, for Jebus’s sake! (If you want more info about the X factor, here’s an Xian’s explanation <\/a>for fellow Xians.)<\/p>\n

Anyway, here some things I wish I could say to my long-ago acquaintance in honor of the holiday.<\/p>\n

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  1. It’s bad to be stupid.<\/li>\n
  2. It’s worse to be stupid about your own religion’s history while trying to convert an easily irritated atheist of Jewish origin.<\/li>\n
  3. If your God disapproved of gays, He wouldn’t have allowed that hairstylist to give you the most unflattering hairdo since Medusa’s. That haircutting queen was actually the hand of God punishing you for your homophobia!<\/li>\n
  4. Merry Titmas!\n

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