Gods Rest Ye, Unitarians

[kodalai]

Gods rest ye, Unitarians, let nothing you dismay;
Remember there's no evidence there was a Christmas Day;
When Christ was born is just not known, no matter what they say,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact.

Our current Christmas customs come from Persia and from Greece,
From solstice celebrations of the ancient Middle East.
This whole darn Christmas spiel is just another pagan feast,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact.

There was no star of Bethlehem, there was no angels' song;
There could not have been wise men for the trip would take too long.
The stories in the Bible are historically wrong,
O, Tidings of reason and fact, reason and fact,
Glad tidings of reason and fact!

Comments

[beccaabbott.livejournal.com]

lol! awesome.

[diatomacearth.livejournal.com]

I am damn near posted that one to FB.

[ayelle.livejournal.com]

Haha, me too! Or possibly the old chestnut about how Unitarians are bad hymn singers because they're always reading ahead to see if they agree with the words... though IME that tendency gets set aside around Christmas, when everybody of vaguely Christian backgrounds tends to find they just wanna sing the carols they grew up with, no matter what they say!

[aging-parents.livejournal.com]

Of course Christian theologians over the ages have gone back and forth between times when they railed against the pagans for highjacking a Christian holiday and the times when they railed against their fellow Christians for celebrating a thinly disguised pagan holiday. Most famously the Puritan fathers in Massachusetts made the celebration of Christmas a crime punishable by jail time and pushed hard for well over a century to get their Congregants to celebrate Thanksgiving in its place (the end result being that Americans ended up with two big holidays for the price of one).

[orion117.livejournal.com]

Next thing you’re going to tell me is that there is no Santa Claus! ;;;;;_;;;;;

Here’s one of my two Unitarian jokes:

Q. How can you tell it’s Easter in a Unitarian church?
A. The lid on the grand piano is raised.

I’m here all week, folks!

[aging-parents.livejournal.com]

In that case it's Easter all year at our church! (We have an awesome music program.)

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

That was perfect. ^_^

[foxglove6.livejournal.com]

Yay! :-D hehe