You’d think people would quit with the religious paranoia and actually enjoy Christmas, but no! I’ve gotten so many of these dang things lately from well-meaning but clued out people it’s enough to make me sick!
First it was “Boycott Target! They hate Christmas!” Then it was “Walmart wants to do away with Christmas!” And I got two or three chain letters screaming about Target over the past month.
Now this religious nutcase is trying to gget scared and unthinking Christians to mailbomb the ACLU, who everybody knows is really the Anti-Christian Losers United!!! Right!?
That was sarcasm in case anybody’s wondering.
Well…This got in my inbox on the wrong day, and it is the crappiest Christmas idea I’ve heard yet, not to mention a fine way for religious zealots to make idiots of themselves, and defile the spirit of Christmas while they’re at it!
Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 1:03 PM
Subject: let’s have some Christmas fun
-And this forward is not the way to do it.
I got this from an Email list and thought it worth forwarding.
-That’s what they all say. Newsflash, it’s not. It’s a freaking forward. It’s a religious chain letter for crying out loud!
To those on a list where this is not the main theme, I apologize if it bugs you.
-*Tsks and rolls eyes* Don’t forward in the first place. Then you don’t have to duck out of getting flack for it with a lame disclaimer/apology!
It is so good, and I think it is worth our time to do so, I will be doing this today and sending it out on Monday.
-*Tsks* What’s so darn good about it? Nothing. You’ve been duped by a religious chain letter trying to pass itself off as Christmas fun. Good grief, people will fall for anything as long as it’s a forward and especially if Christ is mentioned in it somewhere!
I say, “Let’s all do it, and have our voices be heard!” The suggestion is below:
-I say, get a real hobby. Get a life. How many times more are people going to keep following the dictates of some stupid chain letter that claims it can “Let your voices be heard!”? That’s so overkilled and a dead give away it’s nothing but email spam that spreads via overly emotional people.
-I have a suggestion – don’t forward it! Don’t do what the darn thing suggests. Have your own Christmas fun instead!
THIS IS A GREAT IDEA! THE BEST I HAVE HEARD ALL YEAR!!
-Pardon me while I get something for nausea. Best idea all year!? OMGWTH planet have you been living on!?
Can’t think of a better way to have some Christmas fun.
-Then you’re in serious need of some kind of help, mental help. Most of us celebrate Christmas by caroling, gift giving, dinner with family and friends, surely you’ve heard of stuff like that, I hope? How then, can you claim this stupid letter is more fun than all those things!? You must be really, really sad!
Hey, wanna have some fun this CHRISTMAS?
-Hey, of course, duh! But my idea of fun does not include wasting money and time mailing people I don’t even know, in the hopes of pressuring them one way or another about Christmas and what to do about it.
Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD!
I don’t send Christmas cards to strangers…Only friends and family..
Since they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this
holiday,
-Oh, brother, here we go yet again! The typical religious paranoid chain letter trying to dupe trusting, nervous Christians again. The same old “They’re trying to stop Christianity! Do something! DO SOMETHING AND PASS IT ON! MAILBOMB The ACLU!”
-Get a grip! There are rumors flying around about the
ACLU, and though I haven’t seen this particular chain letter archived on hoax busting sites yet, I’m sure it will be eventually. In fact, I have submitted it for debunking on two sites. Typically, chain mail claims the ACLU is very anti-Christian and are trying to take away yo religion!!! Give me a pickin break! They are not anti-Christian. They are pro separation of church and state. And, they are powerless to make or stop anybody from practicing whatever religion they like.
-So seriously, what is the ACLU going to do to me for saying Merry Christmas? Huh? What are they going to do about it if I choose to put angels on my tree? Are they going to storm my house and take away our turkey and put us in chains for playing Christmas songs?
-No?
-Well then…Dry up. The big bad ACLU won’t get you and won’t cancel Christmas!
Think about this also – as much as you are feeling threatened by the existence of the ACLU because you’re afraid they’ll take your god away, how fair is it for you to foist your religion on them? How fair is it to get scores of people duped by your fear mongering to mailbomb the ACLU with Christmas cards? You are trying to make fools and spammers out of Christians, and, you are ruining Christmas! We do not send cards in the hopes of guilting, shaming, or persuading people to turn Christian so they no longer pose such a threat to us…We give cards because we love our family and friends, and wish to pass on pure, unadulterated Christmas cheer…That’s ALL! No strings attached! You are trying to cheapen Christmas by turning it into a misguided religious agenda.
-Very bad idea! Unless you personally know someone at the ACLU, don’t send cards! You’re not doing it out of the kindness of your heart, you’re doing it because you’re an insecure, religious nutcase who believes every company is out to ban Christmas and anything Christ! Go away!
all the crosses and anything to do with Christ, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN, card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world.
-You are seriously deluded! It is you who are living in a dark, sad little world. Has it not even occured to you that maybe some people belonging to the ACLU are Christians!? ACLU stands for American Civil Liberties Union, not Anti-Christian Losers United and they are not the AntiChrist Lackees Union! Get that through your thick misguided head! And again, stop trying to get us to foist our religion on people we don’t even know! Don’t tell me how to spend my money! Don’t tell me how to have Christmas fun! Don’t even tell me your idea is fun because it’s not! It’s a pile of alarmist crap! It’s a travesty done to Christmas itself. You’re doing nothing but promoting harassment via post office, and at Christmas of all times – you should be ashamed!
Not a snowman or Santa Claus or forest animals,
-Oh but of course not! They are pagan and evil and not ‘Christian’ symbols to you.
NEWSFLASH: God created the animals. God made St. Nikolas, who gave away presents in Christ’s name, I might add. God made the snow, and gave us the brains to make snowmen! God did not invent torture, which is what the cross was used for, and it’s a symbol of Jesus’s crusifiction, not his birth. So don’t you dare tell me what kind of card to send where! I’ll spend my money and send cards or not send them to whoever I please, and I’ll do it in the spirit Christmas is actually intended to be!
but a Christian Christmas card with a Christian message.
-Like I said before, you’re foisting your own religion on people at Christmas is not going to make them turn Christian and become less a threat to you! You will come off looking like an idiot! If people actually do fall for this sorry idea of ‘Christmas fun’ as you call it, and the ACLU eventually gets wind of this chain, they’ll know that a bunch of knee-jerking, gullible Christians were fooled into sending them Christmas cards, not out of kindness, but out of fear and loathing for an organization they have chosen to believe is next to the antiChrist!
Here’s the address … just don’t be rude or crude (It’s not the Christian Way, ya know?):
-Your whole idea is rude and crude! Rude, because it promotes and incites people to send tons of cards out of some sort of wish to convert everybody in the ACLU. It is crude because of the butchery it’s doing to the Christmas spirit! Sending cardes to a bunch of people you don’t know because you’re threatened and you have an agenda is not Christmas! It’s an exploitation of Christmas, and *that* is crude!
ACLU
125 Broad Street
18th Floor
New York, NY 10004
Two tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations
Mailbombing – the Christian way – yeah, right! My eye!
because they wouldn’t know if any were regular mail containing contributions.
-Well, that’s considerate, isn’t it? Bog them down with so much mail they have to work overtime to process it all, which means missing their own Christmas holidays! This has got to be one of the most stupid, childish, desperate and foolish not to mention insincere Christmas ideas I’ve heard to date!
So spend 37 cents and tell the ACLU to leave Christmas alone.
-You spend your own 37 cents, preferably on a card for your own loved one, and leave me alone!
NOW, go get your envelope and do it before you forward this to EVERYONE is your address book.
-No, don’t! Don’t waste the envelope, don’t waste the money, and for gosh sake don’t spam everybody in your address book with this incredibly obnoxious chain letter!
