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We were setting up our Christmas tree this year and realized we had nothing to set a top it.
We do hope my crafty homage to our dear FSM does not mind his perch alight on our tree, because he looks so fantastic there.
Have a great Holiday season.
Christina
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Awesome! Bryce and I have been planning on making a tree topper but couldn’t decide how we were going to do it! Great idea!
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I like the pac-man ornament.
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Well, the FSM must love Fmas trees, because remember, in the begining, he created mountains, A TREE, midgit.
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Does anyone else find this post a little (actually a LOT) hypocritical……”I was decorating my CHRISTmas tree…….” yet you are a pastafarian??? So basically you don’t believe in CHRIST, except when you can get presents???
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Rebecca, the tree goes back centuries earlier than Christ. It was used in ancient Pagan festivals and rituals. Christmas day itself is a stolen Pagan festival that is all about celebrating the solstice. The Sun, after being still in the sky for three days, rises one degree on December 25th. The pagans would sing ‘He is risen’. It is about the birth of the Sun. Christians basically stole the festival.
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I thought Jesus was the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster?
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@rebecca -
I’ts just a typo. She meant to spell it the correct way “ChriFSMas.”
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I believe they just used the term “Christmas tree” in the generic sense. I have, on occasion, had such a tree, and I have never been a christian. I didn’t believe in the tooth fairy either, but I still got that quarter when I put my tooth under the pillow.
Lighten up. Pastafarians do celebrate Holiday around this time of the year. May your pasta be al dante and your sauce warm and soothing.
RAmen
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Can I have that ornament too?
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@ Rebecca 4,
Well, it wouldn’t have been very festive for our fellow pastafarian to put a corpse resembling CHRIST atop the tree, would it? That would be very messy indeed; he certainly wouldn’t get a lot of presents if that were the case! You know he meant Fmas anyway, silly!
RAmen!
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@rebecca:
Despite being associated with a Christian festival, many have made the claim that the tradition’s origins are pre-Christian, originating in the ancient paganism of Europe. The tradition can be definitively dated to 16th century Germany, and it was popularised across the western world in the 18th and 19th centuries.
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We can get presents from CHRIST?!? “rebecca”, please tell us all how!
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Just because you don’t believe that Jesus Christ was the messiah doesn’t mean you have to dismiss his existence altogether. He was actually the moving force for many great things (and a fair share of not so amazing things) and you can still have a day to recognize that. Furthermore you could just believe that taking time out of one’s schedule for one day every year to give to others is a worthy enough cause, even if the name is Christian based (and further back a pagan based holiday date).
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Hi, Rebecca. I personally don’t find this post at all hypocritical. Even if Christina and her family don’t subscribe to Christianity (which they actually may, I don’t know), they can still celebrate Christmas as a holiday that stands for love, family, generosity, consideration, gratitude, and good old-fashioned merriment. One doesn’t have to believe in Christ to share gifts at Christmas, or at any time of the year. And anyway, did you know that decorating a tree at this time of year was originally a Pagan tradition that honored Roman gods? Rebecca, since neither of us believes in any of the Roman gods, we’ll both be hypocrites when we decorate our trees this year. Have a merry Christmas, no matter your creed.
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Rebecca (#4) – Great example of religious logic! I love your techniques.
Assumption – a Christmas tree is purely a christian symbol because its name has ‘Christ’ in it.
Conclusion – to use a Christmas tree you must be a christian or you’re a hypocrite.
I can use this logic to!
Assumption – to vote in the USA you must take part in the Democratic process, which has ‘Democrat’ in it.
Conclusion – if you vote anything but Democrat, you’re a hypocrite.
Christianity is a part of Christmas in the same way the Democratic part is part of US democracy; both are part of something much bigger.
Christmas is a celebration, it’s a time to over eat, take a day of work, to buy and receive gifts and keep the economy afloat; for some it’s also a religious festival. You’re arrogance in stating that I have to be a xian to legitimately give gifts to my loved ones at christmas amazes me.
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To me, this Xmas is all about a 5 day weekend. If putting a statue of Osama bin Laden on a tree could get me another couple days, I’d do it.
Think most people’s first Xmas thoughts are about the birth of Jesus? Hell, he wasn’t born in December! As previously stated, the early Christians hijacked a pagan holiday. Now it’s been taken from them by merchants. Xmas is about Charlie Brown specials and buying jewelry and horrible music about Grandma being run over by a reindeer.
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Well, did anyone notice her name is Christina? She could simply be referring to her own “mas” tree… I certainly thought her tree was worthy of being pirate booty. Good on you Christine. On a differnt note, Perhaps we should decorate midgets on our Holiday. It would be entertaining…
Har, Har, Har
Merry Midget Wrangling all :)
On a dift. note, I saw a really bad holiday animated thing on netflicks where a pirate became santa. I smiled at the Noodly implications.
Enough Rambling,
Later Pastafarians,
SP
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The christians hijacked the pagan midwinterfest, and changed it into jezus birthday party (although he was actually born in july). So just call it midwinterfest again, and leave out the religious bull.
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Crap! I said “al dante” in my earlier post. I meant to say al dente. Al dante was the guy who wrote about how much fun we can have in the christian hell. Sorry about any confusion I might have caused.
RAmen
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Even Xmass celebrates Fmass
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After reading through this article, I just feel that I need more information on the topic. Could you share some resources please?
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This Religion is the seed that will obliterate all other beliefs. Our undying faith in the sacred FSM has just as much merit as believers of any other fully-fledged religion. Rock on Joseph Smith ..ah oops.. Bobby Henderson!!
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