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    Image of johnivdaly johnivdaly
    12/17/09

    [news.bbc.co.uk]

    Remember that billboard they put up in New Zealand with a picture of the no-longer-a-virgin Mary on it?

    "The billboard was defaced within hours of its unveiling"

    #tips #waronchristmas #religion #newzealand
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    Image of johnivdaly johnivdaly
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    And it's gone... or, at least, covered in brown paint. [news.bbc.co.uk]
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    Maury: "Joseph, you are...NOT the baby's father."

    God: "In your face! In your face!"
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    "After His tangy love sauce, yours is very hard to swallow."
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    Hey, Bible-thumpers, it could have been worse:
    "God filled me. Completely, to Rapture.
    ...After Him, your watery, sloppy seconds went unnoticed."
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    "Oh come, all ye faithful.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    12/17/09

    @Mike Jahn:
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    12/17/09

    @Lysergic Asset: Ha! I'll bet it doesn't protect against STDs either.
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    Image of God God
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    Pssh. Totes obv. A very biiig act to follow too. And poor Mary. The Archangels were a really hard act to follow.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    12/17/09

    @God: Well what does anyone expect, what with your burning bush?
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    Image of BoKnowsMagic BoKnowsMagic
    12/17/09

    @God: "No one fills me up like God."
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    Image of God God
    12/17/09

    @BadUncle: You are correct, My son. And at this most wonderful time of the year, We now use it as a Hanukkah bush.
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    Image of Mike Jahn Mike Jahn
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    You cheated with who? Wait, how old is Tiger Woods?
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    Image of NYM NYM
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    I love the Kiwis!
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    Besides carpentry, Joseph had a sideline seafood business called The Blessed Sturgeon.
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    Image of psybab psybab
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    What do you mean, "it's not mine?!"
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    Image of i'm a bottle i'm a bottle
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    Christians are really touchy people. It because of original sin or something.
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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    12/17/09

    In reply to 'Hold On a Second. You Cheated With Who?'
    That billboard is a pastor's cry for help and/or a penile implant.
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    Image of OliversArmy OliversArmy
    12/10/09

    In reply to Israeli Group Waging Actual War on Christmas
    Now this is a war that should win somebody a Nobel Peace Prize.
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    Image of Mean_Ol_Liberal Mean_Ol_Liberal
    12/10/09

    In reply to Israeli Group Waging Actual War on Christmas
    If, in Israel, these ranters are taken as seriously as the "War on Christmas" morons in the US are, then I'd love to be forwarding this biz onto every right wing Fundie loon in the country.

    If these guys are given more weight in Israel, then...ick. Like that country doesn't have enough problems?
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    12/10/09

    @Mean_Ol_Liberal: It's actually pretty fascinating how similar the mindsets of the two groups are. For either group, acknowledgment of / celebrating with "the other" (or opting out of such celebration) is considered threatening to the diety, which in both cases is believed to be, ironically enough, omnipotent. Omnipotent, but apparently helpless in the face of such outrageous ... tolerance. Say wha?
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    Image of Mean_Ol_Liberal Mean_Ol_Liberal
    12/10/09

    @Mediahohoho: My very thoughts! How in the world is a mere recognition of the existence of another faith such a big-ass threat?

    And in this case, it's not even a religious symbol, though it is one associated exclusively with Christians, if not Christianity.

    To give these Israeli loons some reluctant props, though. They ARE raging against a big, ol' loud symbol that is meaningful only to those celebrating a holiday that is connected to Christianity in the modern age. Our loons rage against something entirely non-specific in its "threat". "Happy Holidays" could most certainly refer to the New Year and Epiphany, but even that's just oh-so-threatening.

    "Faith", my ass. They have none.
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    Image of Mediahohoho Mediahohoho
    12/10/09

    @Mean_Ol_Liberal: To expand on my thoughts, having lived in that part of the world, you can't spit and not hit one or more of the world's three biggest religions' sacred sites. If there is any place in the world an x-mas tree is appropriate it is down the road apiece from Bethlehem.
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