112 Replies to “Merry Winter Lights”

  1. I’ve always thought it’s rather exclusionary, divisive and uninclusive not to string our winter lights on deciduous trees too.

  2. By the way, isn’t celebrating New Year’s Eve on December 31st a slap in the face to the Chinese community?

  3. I live in Brampton and trust me — with what appears on the street to be a 10/1 ratio of ethnic middle-easterners to anglos throughout, it comes as a big surprise that the city is doing anything at all!

  5. On a positive note, was driving in Saskatoon last night and I was faced with a city bus that had “Merry Christmas” as the message on the lighted sign on the front of it. It was very nice to see.

  6. In Calgary too… bus signs say Merry Christmas.
    These politically correct asshats can stay out East … they deserve them.

  7. Brampton is GTA. The old maps of the area just had pictures and a warning that “there be dragons.”
    Nothing good can come from the GTA. Send them on with Quebec when we force their exit.

  8. A few years ago the downtown Calgary Bay store sported “Happy Ramadan” stickers on the entrance doors during Ramadan. I didn’t have a problem with it because my Christian beliefs are not so fragile as to have been “damaged” by seeing this.
    Jew, Muslims, and Buddhists are usually not members of the Nativity Police because 95% of them don’t feel the need to elevate themselves by oppressing others. The Nativity Police are usually white, native born, slightly angry and insecure secularists who spend most of their time intimidating spineless business owners and HR types at companies.
    As per Adam’s hopeful comment about the bus in Saskatoon last night the Nativity Police reached their nadir a couple of years ago. When I heard them being lampooned on CBC radio last year I knew their power must be slipping.

  9. My… how politically correct!
    Let me report, however, some good news… downstairs in my apartment building’s lobby, there’s a big banner that says “Merry Christmas”. And, despite it being a building of “diverse” tenants, I haven’t heard of any complaints. And the landlord company actually invited the residents to a “Christmas Social”. Not a “winter social” or a “holiday social” or a “diversity social” or something silly like that.
    And in my city, there’s a billboard ad that implores, “Keep Christ in Christmas”.
    And today, someone said “Merry Christmas” to me… yep, I said it back.
    Smiles all over… remember, the Leftists who put that silly ad on the back of that Brampton bus had to pay for it.

  10. To add to what Wonderwoman stated its a surprise that they do anything at all in Bramptondesh.

  12. Is this winter lights celebration sponsored by Noma?
    I sure wish we were still out west… Onscario has become a political correct blur of muddy nothingness…. *sigh*
    Merry Christmas!

  13. Same deal here in Halifax. Have not had a Santa Claus parade for years now. They hold it in November and call it the Parade of Lights.
    Sad to be going along the same lines as those idiots out west in Ontario.
    Ahh well, we still give big A$$ Christmas Tree to the good folks of Boston each year.

  15. Personally, I celebrate the winter solstice at this time of year.
    You know, something that actually happened 2000 years ago.

  17. My arguments against Christmas are mostly theological, not cultural, and above all they are personal. If others wish to celebrate Christmas I certainly wouldn’t presume to take it upon myself to hinder or in any way impede them. Nor will I be of any inclination to embrace whatever multiculti nonsense is thrown up in its stead.

  19. However, please carry on shopping. The province needs the sales tax revenue. Ottawa needs the GST revenue. And the city needs the retailers to survive for its own tax revenue needs.
    The question this brings to mind to the unenlightened among us (myself being a prime example), is why isn’t the holiday shopping promoted throughout the year? Or why promote it at all?
    Oh no! We can’t have the Judeo-Christians stop shopping during the ‘holiday season’…

  20. A winter lights celebration — hummmm…I don’t think I’m offended today! But all I’ll say is keep Christ in Christmas

  21. Memo from the CHRC [Canadian Holiday Research Corporation]:
    All words in brackets will ultimately be expunged.
    The following songs are politically correct (Christmas) Holiday Carols
    1- I’m Dreaming of a White Holiday
    2- I’ll be Home for Holiday
    3- There’ll be a Blue, Blue Holiday Without You
    4- The Holiday Song
    5- Merry Little Holiday
    (Noel) is French for (Christmas) hence the song becomes
    “The First Holiday.”
    In countries where (Santa) (Claus) is known as Father Christmas, his name will be changed to Father Holiday.
    In addition, The word Santa really means (Saint) and that too will be abolished. Henceforth, he will be called Holiday Guy so the masses will know we’re referring to that Jolly (fat) heavy (old) senior (man) (man is a tough one to get rid of , but we’re trying) formerly known as (Santa Claus.)
    (Claus) is in doubt, but it will be changed too because we just know the guy offends a lot of people.
    Songs
    1- Here comes Holiday Guy, here comes Holiday Guy
    2- Holiday Guy is coming to town
    3- Jolly Senior Holiday Guy [Jolly Old St. Nicholas]
    Other changes:
    (Angels) we have heard on High becomes
    Obama, Layton, Dion and Duceppe we have heard on high
    Artists who have recorded such carols will be ordered to re-record them using appropriate wording. Dead artists like Elvis and Bing etc., who have recorded (Christmas) songs will have their tombstones marked with a red letter, preferably
    an X as in Xmas.
    Effective immediately all commercial advertising using the word (Christmas) will be forbidden. A good example to follow is that brilliant Tim Horton’s commercial featuring all those dippy people who are so happy that we’re well on the way to eliminating (Christmas.) You know, the one where the bimbo asks her workmates “What did you get for the holidays?”
    Finally Christians will be known as Holyans.
    The word (Holiday) means (Holy) day.
    Shit, I’ll have to do this thing it all over again.
    Memo to follow

  22. Well, I am glad they were sensitive enough to still give a nod to my pagan Nordic heritage. From wiki:
    Odin was sometimes recorded, at the native Germanic holiday of Yule, as leading a great hunting party through the sky. Two books … describe Odin as riding an eight-legged horse named Sleipnir that could leap great distances, giving rise to comparisons to Santa Claus’s reindeer.[14]
    (Maybe they got that reindeer from around Fort McMurray)

  23. A while back, I heard an ad on the radio for Home Depot, something like “Your holiday light headquarters”. A menorah is part of Hannukah and, while I’ve never looked for one, I’m pretty sure that HD doesn’t carry them. That leaves Christmas as the only celebration at this time of year that uses lights so why not call them Christmas lights?

  25. Lickmuffin–should be called suckmuffin–you are a sad case.

    The solstice was observed and commemorated long before any of the modern religions hitched their wagons to the seasonal festivities. And one can verify mathematically that, yes, a solstice actually occurred 2000 years ago.
    So. What’s. The. Problem?

  26. Lickmuffin you insult Christians by stating …
    “You know, something that actually happened 2000 years ago.” implying that the birth of Christ did not happen.
    Its ok… I forgive you 😉
    Happy Solstice muffin!

  27. My Aunt passed away at the beginning of Advent, but not before she managed one last barrage of parcels and presents from Germany. Our “Titanium Tante” is no more. (Titanium due to her two knee joint replacements) We are one Christmas soldier less in the Knecht Rupprecht Division, but not in spirit. She has now moved on to the eternal “Three Kings Street”.
    Well the Three Kings will be coming soon in the New Year, should be quite the show.
    Here’s to a prosperous New Year, as the last one has been anything but! Perhaps the Three Kings will be tossing some gold through our windows for the New Year. As long as it doesn’t hit me in the head, it will be gratefully accepted.
    To all the gang at SDA, you are not really small dead animals, but you may just have a whole lotta soul!
    Wishing you all a Holy Christmas and a Blessed New Year from the Rupprecht’s!
    Hans, Corinne, Nicolaas, Anastasia, & Sophia.
    Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
    Frankenstein Battalion
    2nd Squadron: Ulanen-(Lancers) Regiment Großherzog Friedrich von Baden(Rheinisches) Nr.7(Saarbrucken)
    Knecht Rupprecht Division
    Hans Corps
    1st Saint Nicolaas Army
    Army Group “True North

  28. Ghost of Ed,
    I am appalled, Father Holiday. How dare you be so exclusionary, if the Holiday is secular must the gender not be neutral.
    Just kidding of course, to one and all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS.

  29. Tom, James:
    “LickMuffin” is a politically correct girly man who is just temporarily visiting us from his regular haunt: the CBC News forum
    This afternoon he likely just finished watching the third in the Trilogy of Winter Solstice Animal Porn, was bored, and decided to come annoy us all.

  30. Robert W done wrote:

    Trilogy of Winter Solstice Animal Porn

    Oh, come on now! You cannot post something like that without a link! You’re such a tease! Thtop!

  32. I don’t think I’m far off. What kind of pathetic & lonely human being would feel the need to rub salt in the wounds of all who cherish Christmas and mourn the erosion of its original meaning.
    Oh I know, the same pathetic individuals doing the same in Washington State: http://pelalusa.blogspot.com/2008/12/secular-progressives-attack.html
    If Licky-Boy and his ilk were REAL men (and not cowards) then let’s see them go to a predominately Muslim country and go around pronouncing similar comments about Muhammad being pure fiction?
    Which comes full circle to my original point: They are truly deeply lonely individuals who actually feel pleasure in espousing their hate for Christianity.

  34. Lickmuffin: You celebrate the winter solstice every year, simply because you can prove it happened 2000 years ago?
    You do realize that there will be a winter solstice again this year. And next year. And every year for the rest of your life, and the rest of your children’s lives, and the rest of their children’s lives, and so on for as many generations as you care to go. And not one of those will have any meaning, the same as the winter solstice 2000 years ago has no meaning.
    And they say Christians are the irrational people . . .

  36. Personally, I celebrate the winter solstice at this time of year.
    You know, something that actually happened 2000 years ago.
    – lickmuffin
    Well, nothing less would be expected from leftard flaunting a brain the size of a microbe.

  37. Kate, I would love it if you would share some pictures of the Christmas celebrations being undertaken by the good Christians (and otherwise) of your wonderful hometown, Delisle, Saskatchewan.
    Maybe you can show other Canadians how it’s done!!
    GOD BLESS!!

  38. They’re Christmas lights. They go on Christmas trees… cuz afterall, it’s Christmas.
    Merry Christmas to all the SDA faithful. I don’t agree with much of what you have to say, but I support you’re right to say it.

  39. There’s fun and laughter in the air
    There’s Hope for all to see
    Let Christmas light your happy heart
    Let G E light your tree.
    This was an old Xmas jingle from a General Electric TV ad of the mid fifties.
    I remember it well and someone GIVE that Adman a Xmas bonus ’cause its still in my head 50 years later.
    Western Society was still ramping up to electrification in those days and companies like G E sponsored many early TV shows extolling the virtues of labour saving appliances. And boy were they quality made and lasted to boot( I still have a 40 year old G E toaster…excellent chrome body…solid bakelite handles etc…weighs about 5 pounds…lots of windings on the elements and still makes a mean piece of toast) Try to get that today!
    The fact that we could say “Merry Christmas” back then,without the fear of offending any sensitive ears was proof enough that we were as a society;comfortable within our own definition of ourselves.
    I still say Merry Christmas and my attitude is that of to bad to be those that are offended.

  40. Why do people even bother? Just ask everyone to come to work on December 25th. Just because it’s winter, doesn’t mean there should be a day off.
    See how well that goes down.

  41. Why is there such anger because lickmuffin referred to the winter solstice – an annual event that has always been associated, in almost all cultures, with birth and rebirth, because the ‘darkness’ lessens and the light (and life)emerges.
    I’m an atheist; I certainly don’t agree with any idea about god, the birth of jesus and so on. That’s me and my opinion – hardly grounds for condemnation. Do I correlate this Christian belief with even more ancient beliefs about solstice rebirth? Yes, most certainly.
    I analyze the Christian religion as vital and novel in its emergence and development as a moral and social value system. It was the first belief system that was non-tribal, that instead insisted that all people were humans, were ‘neighbours’, were to be loved and accepted rather than killed as in the normal tribal view which sees all Others as non-human. I put this down to the expanding permanent settlements of this early historic period – that required people to get along with other groups.
    It was, as a belief system that enabled collaboration and peace, also one that focused on the individual’s choice. You weren’t born into this religion by hereditary links, as in the Judaic or Islamic or tribal religions. You had to be baptised, confirmed, and you could join in this religion, as a conscious decision. That’s a first – that focus on the individual intention to join in with a religion that stressed humanity.
    So, I think it’s an important, THE important, religious base of the West – because of that focus on reason, choice, individuality (see Pope Benedict’s arguments).
    But, I’m still an atheist – and I go to the Santa Claus parade in Toronto, which is called just that, and wish people Merry Christmas because that’s the culture of this solstice and this environment…but not because I have any belief, not for a second, in God/Jesus. So? Is that worthy of condemnation because I don’t believe in god?

  43. Better change the days of the week.
    The Seven Day Week
    The Naming of the Days
    Sunday — Sun’s day
    Monday — Moon’s day
    Tuesday — Tiu’s day
    Wednesday — Woden’s day
    Thursday — Thor’s day
    Friday — Freya’s day
    Saturday — Saturn’s day

  44. Happy Ramadan? Isn’t that like saying ‘Happy Lent’? It doesn’t seem appropriate. Maybe ‘Happy Eid el Fitr’? That’s more like saying Happy Easter.

  45. I call these folks neodisestablishmentarians and folks like Katie antineodisestablishmentarians, not sure it will catch on, but it should, because the neo disestablishmentarians are hard at work, and they need a name. Of course it would be better if it were easier to type, but you can blame the Victorians, I believe, for that.

  47. ET, I was raised as a Roman Catholic but am now an Agnostic. On a separate thread you & I could debate my belief that being an Atheist is not a whole lot different than being a Fundamentalist ___________.
    The reason I take offense to the likes of Licky Boy is because such comments are now par for the course of the Radical Left. They know there is something wrong about insulting Blacks. They know there is something wrong about insulting Jews. And they know something is wrong with insulting Muslims.
    But yet they think it is perfectly acceptable to belittle, trash, and insult Christianity and all Christians.
    The behaviour toward Sarah Palin was the most blatant example of this. Bill Mar is the poster boy for such dreadful behaviour.
    So though I don’t consider myself to be a Christian any longer, that’s why I won’t tolerate such despicable behaviour.

  48. White Lights in Browntown. Not really surprised since they don’t really have any white people left in Brampton. Mostly South Asians.

  49. surly at December 16, 2008 4:26 PM
    By the way, isn’t celebrating New Year’s Eve on December 31st a slap in the face to the Chinese community?
    And don’t forget the Iranians. They will celebrate it on March 20th, 2009. Hey, it’s a Zoroastrian holiday and the muslims really hate the fact that they haven’t been able to beat this infidel holiday out of the Persians.
    Apart fromt the fact that the Iranian state is in he hands of islamo-fascists, Iranians are good people. They must be encouraged and supported toward freedom.

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