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Every. Single. Other. Kids. Show. From. The. 90s. And. Before. Has. An. Overtly. Christian. Christmas. Special. But Rugrats doesn't, it must be a conspiracy! It must be war on Christian values! It must be indoctrination of the poor Christian children. Oh God, won't somebody please think of the children!
Growing up Jewish in the American southeast, Rugrats was literally all I had. Sometimes Christians can just get fucked.
Growing up Jewish in the American southeast, Rugrats was literally all I had. Sometimes Christians can just get fucked.
imagine growing up entirely unaffiliated with anyone's imaginary friends.... in places like louisiana and alabama.
'which church do you go to?'
none
'no, honey, where do you go on sunday mornings?'
the kitchen, for cereal.
'oh lord you must worship the devil himself'
lady, if I don't believe in your imaginary friend why would I believe in his imaginary enemy?
Don't have to imagine lol Judaism is my heritage and culture but it's never been my religion. Not since my family was thrown out of a synagogue for insisting on Palestinian's rights when I was young. It is scary, being told you don't have any morals because you don't believe in eternal damnation. Sort of makes you grateful that person does believe in hell if it's the only thing keeping him in line. It's like the old Ricky Gervais bit: "If you don't believe there is a God to answer to why don't you go round raping & murdering as much as you want?" "I do, as much as I want, which is not at all."
It is scary, being told you don’t have any morals because you don’t believe in eternal damnation.
yeah there seems to be a consistent thing in nutbag adults that they love to scare children with their own psychosis-driven fearmongering. as if they're driven to pass on the infection via shared trauma.
Not since my family was thrown out of a synagogue for insisting on Palestinian's rights when I was young.
Your family sounds based as fuck. I'd like to join; do you have any eligible women between 20 and 35 for me to attempt to court?
The south is so polarizing for me. I have relatives who live in southern states amd visit often. Compared to northeastern states, everyone down south is soooooooo fucking nice and polite and out going. Yet somehow, on avg, also the dumbest and slowest moving people I've ever seen in my life. Never in a rush. Always got this and God that.
Fuck me running tho they got the best fucking cookout food in the world. BBQ, corn bread, Mac and cheese, greens, its all like a coming of age thing. You turn 13 and you either learn your family recipes or get banished north of the Mason Dixon line
I miss the food.
I don't miss how fucking slow people talk. Like goddamn jimbob I got places to fuckin be.
I guess what makes it weird is all of those other religions having a religious episode
Probably because the people who made the show experienced Christmas that exact way for themselves, where for the other holidays they read a book or asked a practicing religious person what it was like.
Probably because Christmas has been commercialized to hell and back in most places.
It started as a borrowed holiday; why not sell it out completely before they're done with it?
Considering the pagan festival christmas was intended to superscede was one of feasting and excess its kind of nice to see the opressor eaten alive from the inside.
I mean, fuck the christians, they already blather on enough
It would be hard to include all of the traditions co-opted to create Christmas in a half hour kids show.
Surprised they did Christmas at all considering the majority of the families in the show were Jewish.
Christmas is just Saturnalia remixed by Coca Cola though.
Know your audience.
Jesus versus Santa is not a difficult popularity contest to call.
Where is Rugrats Eid Mubarak special?
Rugrats' animation style is based on the genius Estonian animator, Priit Parn. One of his proteges worked on Rugrats and Argh, Real Monsters.
Hotel E is generally considered a masterpiece and Triangle absolutely hilarious, but all of his work is incredible.
Hey OP, do you actually think Christians in the US are marginalized, or did you just cross-post that alt-right garbage here by accident?
This is the green text community bud. This is a zoo not a safari.
I am aware. And usually that means crossposting the jokes or making fun of 4channers, not uncritically repeating their dogwhistles.
Just so you're aware, the phrase "noticing things" or "being a noticer" is 4chan lingo for believing there is a Jewish conspiracy to run the world. That's why I asked OP to clarify.
Yeah, OP's post history suggests they're posting unironically and laughing at the signal boost from people missing the dog whistles. There's probably a reason they're banned from !greentext@lemmy.ml.
@nzmaa@lemy.lol is that the case?
is that the case?
no, I like to post greentexts I find on the internet for the same reasons everyone else posts greentexts, for everyone to laugh and ridicule at.
Hey OP, do you actually think Christians in the US are marginalized
no
This cracked me up. Like I know the post is framed as a “war on Christian’s” thing but the idea that rugrats tackled these themes is just funny to me.
Passover, hanukkah, and kwanzaa aren't completely corporatized and shoved down secular peoples' throats by the people in power. Christians have only themselves to blame if they think secular christmas is an insult.
and?
Yeah the religious siginificance of Christmas to the Christians is lost to the mists of fucking time GTFO
@nzmaa@lemy.lol what do you think the reason for that is?
religious freedom and freedom of speech only pertain to Christian media duh, Jewish creators who do what they want us offensive because they aren't Christians.
freedom for me not for thee