I recently posted an article detailing the efforts of an area strip bar to drum up a little Christmas Spirit and, apparently, Goodwill to Men. They would graciously be waiving the cover charge for anyone who came to the show and brought a toy with them. The toy was then, in turn, to be donated to Toys for Tots. The name given by the bar management to the promotion? "Toys for Tatas". How festive, no?
Anyway, this article elicited precious little traffic; I went back and forth with a couple or three posters, who kindly offered their opinions. These mostly were of the "nothing wrong with it, really", view. I thought it was just a tad hypocritical, and said so.
Then came an especially obnoxious poster who shall remain nameless here, but if you want to follow the exchange, for morbid curiosity’s sake, just click the link. This person latched onto a comment I made alluding to the fact that, in my unseasoned youth, I used to frequent these types of establishments. I had added, however, that I had not done so for quite a long time.
Well, this poster, in a desperate, derisive effort to brand me as a hypocrite, completely breezed over this fact, and set about using my words to mock me for my position. I reiterated that I had not, for a long time, been inside a strip bar. Yes, I used to drink and party quite a bit, but not for quite some time.
Again this fact was steadfastly ignored in favor of mocking me. I pointed out that I did not any longer go to these places, for a couple of reasons. First, I grew up. I realized what a waste of money they were. I was scornfully accused of greed.
I had also pointed out that, at about that same time that I "grew up", I had started going to church more often. I became more and more cognizant of what my lifestyle was doing to my soul, and to the souls of those around me. I stopped doing what I was doing. Again my arguments were ignored.
How typical of a left-wing attack. Ignore what facts don’t work for you and plunge onward.
Not to politicize this, but let me go off on a tangent for a minute. This exchange typified what I have come to so intensely dislike about liberals such as the one who attacked me.
So many of them, not all, but many, sneer at things like morality and just plain, simple decency, especially in the name of Something or Someone greater than the "self". They just can’t stand to acknowledge God in any way but by derision. I’ve seen this same thing from others here on JU, and on other forums I’ve visited and use.
For example, I’ve been on JU for two Christmases now, but I’ve seen this phenomenon elsewhere, too. This year, just like last year, at the merest whiff…..the slightest hint….of a "serious" Christmas article, the "supercilious non-believers", let’s call them, couldn’t wait to trot out all their "enlightened" wisdom and knowledge, painstaking research and references (most from wikipedia), in an effort to disprove our beliefs or to prove the "pagan origins" of our Christian Holiday.
For what? What reason could possibly be worth all that effort?
To be self-righteous and self-superior killjoys, that’s what reason.
All Christians are well aware of the "pagan" origins of many of the Christmas traditions and decorations.
I had one guy on another site thank me for "proving Jesus to be a fraud". This was because I posted the passage from Luke 2 about the "shepherds in the fields". He was more than delighted to point out that, in that area of the world, shepherds have their sheep in the pastures "only from April to October, so there’s no way Jesus could have been born in December."
Well, nyah, nyah, nyah-nyah-nyah.
I agreed with him, I had no choice, but pointed out that December was when it was decided to celebrate it, so what of it? What an ass. That’s what I hate. He was just a non-believer being an ass.
Now, back to my original bitch…..you know, I changed for the better.
I got wiser. I stopped drinking, breaking the chain of a loooong family history of alcohol abuse. I quit going to strip joints because I finally opened my heart and came to see it as the immoral thing it really is. I’m a much better person for all of this.
Now, is a personal change for the better really something to be mocked and belittled? Laughed at? Apparently to some, or at least one person here, it is. A pity for them.