Religious Cringe

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This is the official Lemmy for the r/ReligiousCringe***** subreddit. This is a community about poking fun at the religious fundamentalist's who take their religion a little bit too far. Here you will find religious content that is so outrageous and so cringeworthy that even someone who is mildly religious will cringe.

Rules

All posts must contain religious cringe. All posts must be made from a religious person or must be showcasing some kind of religious bigotry. The only exception to this is rule 2
Material about religious bigots made by non-bigots is only allowed from Friday-Sunday EST. In an effort to keep this community on the topic of religious cringe and bigotry we have decide to limit stuff like atheist memes to only the weekends.
No direct links to religious cringe. To prevent religious bigots from getting our clicks and views directs links to religious cringe are not allowed. If you must a post a screenshot of the site or use archive.ph. If it is a YouTube video please use a YouTube frontend like Piped or Invidious
No Proselytizing. Proselytizing is defined as trying to convert someone to a particular religion or certain world view. Doing so will get you banned.
Spammers and Trolls will be instantly banned. No exceptions.

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Recovering From Religion

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Non Religious Organizations

Freedom From Religion Foundation

Atheist Republic

Atheists for Liberty

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submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Has anyone, anywhere, at any point in time faced any consequences at all for saying merry Christmas?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It started because corporations offered guidance to their retail employees that shoppers preferred "Happy Holidays" because it was more inclusive. Retail drones were told what to say, and when Christians got wind of it, they lost their collective brain cell.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

So those Christians spend December berating retail workers being paid so little they're forced to rely on food stamps for saying the wrong thing while imagining themselves free speech warriors.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

As a kid, I always thought it was because it was shorter than "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year," which was very common until the proliferation of "Happy Holidays" where I grew up. I have to imagine retail employees were glad to cut in half their mandatory goodbye phrase regardless of the reason.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm an atheist and ethnically Jewish and I've never enjoyed Christmas. If anyone would be attacking anyone for saying, "Merry Christmas," it would be me.

When someone says "Merry Christmas" to me, my usual response is, "thanks, you too."

Because, unlike Conservatives (apparently), I'm okay with people saying something I don't agree with when they're just trying to be friendly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Meh, I make a point to say happy holidays back just because I like getting a rise out of idiots.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I imagine under Nero is was somewhat frowned upon. But since Constantine not really

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

You know what - I'll give you that one lol.