“You Are An Idiot,” And Other Festive Holiday Greetings

We all have our own way of celebrating the holidays, whether it’s decorating Christmas trees, lighting Hanukkah candles, engaging in secular seasonal observances, or, in a newer tradition that’s catching on like wildfire all across America:

Going out of your way to denigrate others!

Because there’s no better way to spread cheer and good tidings than pointing out how everyone else isn’t nearly as smart as you are.

You’re probably asking yourself, “I thought you said you were going on hiatus.”

Also, “Why would anyone create a public display specifically designed to cast aspersions on people who hold religious beliefs?"

It’s the law!

Besides, as Annie Laurie Gaylor, the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s co-president points out, "If you just put up a sign that says, 'Jolly Winter Solstice!' they don't get it,"

That’s because people who are not members of the Freedom From Religion Foundation are just so dense that, "We have to be a little more hard-hitting."

Here at Planet Moron, we’re largely agnostic-ish, feeling ourselves to be wholly unqualified to pass judgment as to the nature of existence, however somehow we were unaware that, like Tod Billings of the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers, “We didn’t feel very included in the holiday spirit.”

And we completely forgot to find the Christmas creche offensive.

How the heck did we miss that?

All these years, we’ve spent giving gifts, putting out lights, exchanging holiday-themed pleasantries wholly ignorant of our exclusion from these very activities! Why, rather than enjoy the holiday season and the respite it offers from our busy lives, we instead could have been stewing in angry resentment!

Oh the wasted years!

You see, whereas Christians arrogantly believe that they have an understanding of the meaning of life and our purpose here on earth, free thinkers like Tod Billings and Annie Laurie Gaylor believe in a completely non-arrogant manner that have an understanding of the meaning of life and our purpose here on earth. 

See the difference?

And so, in the new spirit of the holiday season, we would like to point out that whatever you’re doing, if it doesn’t embrace the not-at-all-presumptuous completely known fact that “Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds," you are an idiot.

You know, that’s not as festive when you say it out loud.

J.

NOTE: Yes, I swear, I’m on holiday hiatus.  I’ll put that post up on top again tomorrow!