Have Yourself A Merry Little Mythmas
I don’t think anyone came up with the reference for Santa as God Lite before I did, in around 1993.
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“I don’t think anyone came up with the reference for Santa as God Lite before I did, in around 1993.”
And what prize/accolade shall you be receiving for said original thought Richard?
A Major Award.
No idea. Still waiting.
You probably would have called him Diet God instead, had you spent less time in Europe.
Careful Beans. My feelings are a bit Frgile (that’s Italian BTW) just now.
Plus, it’s not the first time.
freetheanimal.com/2010/10/hurry-up-and-ship-my-major-award-willya.html
I read recently that Santa Claus was derived from Norse Odin back in the 1600’s or so. So the whole God Lite thing goes way back.
No dispute that Santa is a supernatural surrogate for the God myth in whatever form. All I did was create a neologism for it, God Lite, God Light, 1/3 less power than your regular God, whatever.
I suppose I ought to change it to doG Lite now.
Reminds me of a passage from PJ O’Rourke’s Parliament of Whores that you recommended, Richard: ‘Why God is a Republican and Santa Claus is a Democrat.’
I’m not far into it — have been derailed by other reading engagements but soon to return — but from what I have read, you were right, it is excellent. Anything that nails the Republicans over their brand of lies and hypocrisy is a winner in my book — just so long as it doesn’t try to suggest socialism as a preferable alternative, which clearly will not be a problem here.
Why does everybody get so hung up on the Democrat or Republican religious denominations? Religious denomination – a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition, and identity (Government). It’s all the same crap, just a different name. It reminds me of the Simpsons episode where they have to vote between Kang and Kodos. If we stripped away the political parties and made people vote on the person and what they stand for, would anybody vote? Too many people vote for the party and not the person, not that it really matters with the current system.
Everybody doesn’t. Those that do, however, I believe do so because it enables them to “pick a team” and thus relieves them of the pesky burden of thinking for themselves. Everything becomes a simple matter of good vs evil. Most people are too chickenshit to vote for anyone who doesn’t meet the prescriptions of the two-party state religion. Some nonsense about “wasting” their vote.
I pound on Republicans a lot because they claim to support things I believe in, like free markets and restraint of government power, but in practice they do the complete opposite. However, most of the general public fails to notice the hypocrisy. They just conclude, “Oh, all this runaway national debt and widespread unemployment is the result of “capitalism” and its “free markets.” For that reason I think they do infinitely more harm to the public dialogue on policy, economics, etc than their Democratic counterparts, who, as Richard has pointed out before, make little effort to hide their Marxism.
I love indies and libertarians by and large. When I do bother to vote, I vote for them. But in the meantime, I enjoy ranting and raving against Republican ignorance.
Richard
I am a Catholic, and a Merry Christmas spirit to you too. All the best to you for 2015
I have lots of catholic friends and I just cooked a salmon and lentil dish for my lifelong catholic parents in law tonight. No poison. :)
Playing Professional Curmudgeon must get tedious, Richard. I’m actually surprised your friend Jimmy Moore hasn’t led you to the Lord yet.
You’re lucky I approved that. But you made me Laf and it’s a new year.
You’re on a short leash.
A little late catching up (was in Thailand for Christmas, having lots of rice and other wonderful starches) but have a fantastic and stress free New Year. On a side note, Jaclyn rocks. (If I wasn’t gay, I’d totally go for her, so for now, I’ll mack on her accompanist).
She’s hot as hell, but overacting like a fiend in that video. Very distracting. The former is worth tolerating the latter, though. :-)