As a Muslim when I'm told Merry Christmas, i start spontaneously sprouting green hair all over my body and start scheming to steal and smile menacingly
as a jewish person every time someone wishes me a merry christmas i instantly lose 10 hp and enact my vengeance on the nearest available christmas tree
Why? What does your being Jewish have to do with religion? A lot of people and entities (hello, Britannica) seem to confuse Jewish and Judaism. One is a race comprised of multiple ethnicities and the other is an umbrella covering a variety pack of religious flavors. Your comment was funny, though, and if that's the reason, it's reason enough.
I really can’t understand this, would you be offended if a Christian wished you happy Hanukkah? I ask this as an atheist puzzled by the apparent double standards of competing religions.
This is fun watching this in 2023 hearing the classic "cultural Marxism" and "politically correct" before they condensed all their scary buzzwords down to just "woke."
Just today a customer told me "Merry Christmas". The whole store fell silent and then my manager asked the man to step outside with him. A moment later, a single shot rang out; we all knew what had happened, but no one dared discuss it.
Soon it will be over, this terrible war. The things I've seen... the mass graves... just limp piles of red coats and fluffy white beards and shiny black boots. I remember when we burned the crackers, and the decorations. Like machine gun fire it was, for minutes on end. So many terrible terrible jokes... someones life's work, up in smoke in an instant. And we cheered. Real "christmas cheer", hah. Soon it will be over, and we will have won. But at what cost? I ask you that. And how will we pay when the bill comes due?
I'm glad your manager felt able to do the right thing. I just wish we could extend the extra judicial killings to customers who try to return shoes after wearing them for 6 months.
Just the fact that Alex Jones CAN walk around screaming merry christmas without any consequences kind of disproves his own point. Seems to be using his freedom of speech pretty freely for someone who claims to not have any.
this is pretty much how i finally got my grandparents to be accepting of others pronouns, PC culture, and identities. I literally asked "do you like people thinking you're rude and mean? because thats all it is." pundits want you to believe youre going to be executed by the woke mob for misgendering someone, when all it is is basic courtesy
It's like when Dave Chappelle said all that stuff about trans people while also making out he can't say those things anymore 😂 (By the way, I really like Dave Chappelle, but him talking about cancel culture while being paid millions on Netflix to say whatever he likes, was pretty weak)
His employee, Irving Berlin, wrote White Christmas! Wait, I mean, he co-wrote it with Irving Berlin! Wait, no, he wrote it and Irving Berlin was also there!
Let's all have a moment of silence for the brave soldiers that die every year in the war on Christmas. Without their sacrifice, Mariah Carey would finally breach containment.
Back when England was a theocracy, the puritans actually did try to stop Christmas. They realised that Christmas was both pagan and Catholic. And it gave the poor a day off work. They did not like any of that.
@@istvankarolyfarkas6125 only the extremists went to the new world, after the theocracy collapsed and the monarchy was invited back and they could not cope.
It really does bare repeating that the only war on Christmas was carried out by hardline Protestants. The American bunch probably would have executed O'Reilly and Jones for heresy. Or at least flogged them for adulatory and moral indecency.
I actually made the shift away from saying Merry Christmas a few years ago, not because I'm a Leftie Godless Heathen™ (although I am), but because when I said it reflexively to this one lady at the grocery store she thanked me for sticking it to the Liberals and standing up for Christianity and she started ranting about how people who say happy holidays are terrible and on and on and on, and I was like, I don't want to be associated with her or people like her, I'm never saying that again
I actually don’t think this helps, the best thing to do for culture war shit is to just ignore it and keep living your life as if you’d never heard them, otherwise you are adding to the us vs them world view they have and becoming part of the problem
@@josephknott6174 It's not us versus them, it's them versus us, and I don't want to be mistaken for someone who uses that kind of language as an inflammatory dog whistle against other people like me. I just want to live my life but now I have to be careful and watch my language so I'm not mistaken for a bigot. I'm not the one who drew the line but I know which side of it I'm going to stand on.
As an observant Jew, I always find it quite ironic when the religious right uses the phrase "Judeo-Christian values" to justify imposing Christian values on the entire country, including Jews. And it outright bothers me when Ben Shapiro does this 🙄
@@samueldeadman5733The most important part of protect Judeo-Christian values is to not reflect on actual traditions nor the teachings of Jesus, but to take whatever you fancy happening and force it on Christians and Jews.
"It's about the birth of Jesus, not big corporations!!" exclaims Alex Jones, complaining about how big corporations aren't using the word "christmas" enough.
Its not even about the birth of chirst, he was born in the fall when they did the cenus, chirstmas is a ploy to convert pagans and make people stray, idk y people think slamming God on something pagan and calling it a day, that doesnt make it chirstian.
@@qwertydog9795 exactly, but in a movement to convert more pagans the church stole some pagan holidays, chirstmas and Easter, like how does a bunny that poops eggs have to do with Christ dying and coming back, it's a fertility holiday from pagans.... and so many chirstian get up in arms about the fact their tradition is against what thier beliefs clearly state.
I used to be Christian and I remember this one not-so-well-known bible verse that was one of my favorites: "And the Lord said unto thee: thou shalt scream and cry and throw a temper tantrum on live TV when the existence of other religions is publicly acknowledged by corporations in order to make money. Now go forth and commercialize the fuck out of your own beliefs until you don't even remember what those beliefs are anymore." -Throwafiticus 4:20
1-Make up an enemy 2-Claim it's planning to destroy something wholesome everyone loves 3-Pretend to fight it, mainly by screaming a lot and acting scared, ask for support to fight it 4-Watch the cash pour in. When people point out that nothing catastrophic has ever happened, just tell them "you're welcome"
@@MatthewWarleyhow in the world did you manage to come up with an "example" so far removed from reality?? I'm honestly a little impressed with how far the point went soaring over your little head lol.
@@user-gd5dj2nj6c I'm intrigued, please elaborate and rationalize on your statement. And no, I'm not someone on the left who will just delegitimize your position and cancel you by screaming anti-semetic and burning down your entire local community. Just talk to me.
has to leverage Christianity's roots, but then conveniently ignores its pagan ones. Islam of course doesn't count as one of the Abrahamic Religions too.
I once had a guy complaining to me about how people these days are too easily offended. I wholeheartedly agreed and said, "Like how people get their panties in a twist when you say, 'Happy Holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas.'" He proceeded to get his panties in a twist.
@@willguggn2 The word 'offended' has lost all meaning. I don't tell people I'm 'offended' any more. If such an incident occurs, I tell them either (a) "that's irritating" or (b) "that makes me want to punch you." I have no time for nuance anymore. I have radicalised my responses.
No one in the history of humankind has been killed or tortured for believing in the wrong imaginary person or saying something mean about royalty. Ever. Before social media we weren't able to see loads of people being annoyed or offended by things big or small, therefore no one used to get offended.
Even if Christianity was the only religion and everyone practiced it, "Happy Holidays" would still make sense, because there's literally another holiday we celebrate 7 days later!
My mother bought into the War on Christmas bullshit. She ranted about it for a good hour one day a few years ago. I said, "get in the car, we're going shopping." Which for her is like a dog hearing the can opener going. We stop at Wal-Mart. I walked directly to the outdoor section, which is always converted into the holiday section. I stopped and said "What do you see?" "christmas stuff" she says. "What was in the season candy area when we came in?" "Christmas stuff." I left. "Wait, we're not shopping?" "We're window shopping." To home depot. Same deal. Same response. She obviously knows what's going on and is now trying to convince me to head home. "Oh no. We're far from done." After six or seven stores, all with prominently displayed and advertised Christmas sections, we finally went home. I've not heard about the War since.
I need to do this to my grandpa next time he starts ranting about something like that. It’s so irritating having to listen to him jerk Fox News off every single Christmas because he thinks his religion is being “oppressed”.
the nun of my street ranted about it this past christmas. i live in mexico pretty catholic place here in guadalajara we have some sort of secret catholic society called Los tecos (which is supposed to come from tecolotes, a sort of owl , although the name is also an acronym ) but i digress on christmas time we have some kind of party before christmas day comes they are called posadas and are meant to represent the when joseph and mary were seacrhing for a place to stay we sing and the hosts of the party give food and before eating in my case (because the how its done varies a lot between streets) we have a little ceremony were the nuns give a speech about being thankfull and this time they also talked about how everybody says felices fiestas (which is basically happy holidays) and that catholics are under attack the whole show and i was there thinking about this video ( if you read all this thank you i really really like talkign about how things are around were i lived and seeing how cultures contrast)
"It's the consumerism that's really the problem for me" "Okay, let's look at some stores that took christmas out of their mottos." What an incredible segment.
Also it's totally on fox too, if they did any research into Fr. James Martin they would know he's extremely liberal priest, someone more conservative might have agreed with them
I said “Merry Christmas” to a customer at my job once. I was executed by firing squad after 14 months of grueling torture. This is my vengeful millennial ghost, nestled within the internet forevermore.
@@nenmaster5218 this is the scariest reply I’ve had all day congratulations and do continue with said recommendation unless it’s religious propaganda then please kindly F off
I work at Tesco. Whenever a customer says "Merry Christmas" to me I add £10 to their total. If they complain I remove them from the store. The manager knows I do this but is fearful to do anything thanks to Cultural Marxism.
It's the week before Halloween, 2023. I just tried to buy a new rake and some biodegradable leaf bags at Lowes. I was accosted by a pair of life-size audio-animatronic Santa statues. Their mouths gaped open and closed as their tinny voices played over one another. Their arms jerked up and down. One of them said "Hello, what would you like for Christmas?" as the other one said "Christmas is the best time of year for good little boys and girls!" All the Halloween stuff was in the clearance section. In the war on Christmas, Christmas swung first. I am acting in self-defense.
Seriously! I went to buy halloween candy the day before Halloween and it was already replaced by the green and red wrapped Christmas candy. How we supposed to continue the long standing tradition of eating the first bag of candy myself and needing to run out last minute so the trick or treaters get some too! 😅
The war on Christmas is a very real thing started by retail workers after having to listen to all the Christmas music playing on repeat the entire season. Fair, honestly. That kind of torture would drive Christians to war on Christmas.
@@unduloid well yeah but this comment specifically references the Bible which is like an actual hard real book. Just because Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character doesn’t mean that I can say that he said “the true meaning of Christmas is the friends we made along the way” in one of his books and not lie.
@@lasarousi Temple. Churches didn't exist back then. And it was common practice to hold markets at the temple grounds when they were not in use, so Jesus was just being weird, as usual.
My ultra conservative aunt always invites my 100-yr-old grandmother’s favorite catholic priest over for the holidays, and likes to bring this topic up. It usually backfires when she remembers he’s an ultra progressive former druggie who immediately shuts her down every time she starts badmouthing the lesbian neighbors.
It amazes me how Catholicism is the oldest and most conservative sect of Christianity but its priest and members are generally the most progressive, especially amongst American Christians. I think part of it is that catholic priests have to go to school for a very long time and have to devote their whole life to be priest, as well as sacrifice their social and romantic lives. Because of this, they actually know what it means to be a true Christian. But this isolation is also why so many catholic priests are pedophiles, so there needs to be a balance.
@@mattschumacher4581 Catholicism is by no means the oldest or the most conservative sect of Christianity. Orthodox Christianity has them beat on that, and don't have the whole priests being touchie problem that Catholicism does. Mandated clerical celibacy created that entire scandal.
@@JetShanghai isn't that a contradiction? Catholic Christians and Orthodox Christians are of the same blood and split at the same time. This paired along with the fact that the pedo issue is due to similar factors.
@@laurenf.7922 No, because Catholicism split from Orthodoxy. If you compare the early theology of the Church with that of today, you will see that Rome departed in 1054. Only one of those two groups could be the original, undivided Church. We Orthodox have married priests and our sexual abuse is virtually unheard of. So those criticisms do not apply to Orthodoxy.
I'm going insane. I'm not an English native speaker and I hesitated to say "holidays" in other than religious things because I thought it was HOLY-DAYS
@@plushdragonteddy and don't British people use "holiday" to mean basically "vacation"? Like "I was on holiday in Berlin visiting some extended family." or "my husband and I went on holiday to Mallorca."
English is a bastardized language where one word can mean three or four potentially completely unrelated things. Or where one word has three or four completely different spellings, even though they all sound the exact same. Welcome to HELL.
I'm embarrassed of my past self, because I took people like this seriously. PragerU, Ben Shapiro, even Alex Jones. I bought into their harmful ideas and that is part of the reason it took me a while to accept that I am bisexual. I wish I could go back and shake sense into myself because I was so bitter and cynical back then. I appreciate you putting out videos like this, because they could be what helps people break out of the destructive path they are going down.
The world appreciates people like you who are able to change their mind when presented with new information and put their ego aside! Thank you for being better than a lot of people out there who aren’t willing to do so…
You shouldn't be embarrassed you should be proud of yourself. Good on you for coming to a better conclusion. It is very hard to change your worldview it takes a lot of self-reflection and putting aside your bias. Most people are unable to do so
I attended catholic school up until high school, and everybody always said "Happy Holidays". I always took it to mean "Oh, it's because we are celebrating 2 holidays, Christmas and New Years." So to me, the fact that these people go out of their way to victimize themselves with such a mundane phrase is insane.
Yeah, every sane person just assumes that when you say happy holidays you mean the current one, which in this case would be Christmas. I guess some people don't know what holiday it is and they need to be told specifically.
It's a whole holiday season, like multiple holidays even if you're a Christian American. You've got Halloween straight into thanksgiving then christmas then new years plus celebrating that the school year is over, it's a crazy part of the year
The craziest thing is that HBomb wanted this to come out last year so badly, but he was just a week or so behind schedule, so by the time he finished it, he announced on his twitter that he was so committed to releasing the video *on Christmas* that he'd just wait a year and hope it didn't lose relevancy. And now, one year later, Christmas is in such a state of jeopardy that it almost feels like this is a break. Absolutely amazing.
We don’t even need to worry about “taking Christ out of Christmas” because the entire commercialization of the holiday is EXACTLY what Christ would be against! It’s not even about togetherness anymore, it’s about the presents and the money and we know it!
I'm no bible expert but didn't he destroy the tables people sat up to sell things on in the temple because he considered it defiling? He's against the commercialization of religion and the exploitation of people to get money in its name
@@janjanbinks1710 That’s exactly what He did. He drove people out with a whip because it made Him so angry that they were unfairly profiting off of people. I can’t imagine how upset a holiday meant to celebrate togetherness being so commercialized would make Him - let alone that many people celebrate HIS BIRTHDAY on it no less!
I feel like Christ would feel fine about the consumerism aspect of Christmas as long as everybody who was able to, donated food and toys to the annual toy drives/soup kitchens. I've never been religious, but the big thing I took away from mandatory religion classes was that Christ only ever wanted people to help those less fortunate than themselves, and to stay humble by remembering that, even if you're not doing great yourself, there's always someone in a worse position who could use your help. And that's a GREAT message for anyone. Buying a bunch of toys to donate around the holidays is still engaging in the commercialisation of Christmas, but at least it goes towards something positive - making a sick child stuck in hospital on the big day feel a bit happier. Meanwhile I'm sure people like Alex Jones wouldn't donate anything to anyone, and would describe it as a certain word (hint: it begins with 's'!).
Mind blown. The guy with the glasses at 33:00 used to be a close friend of mine but I haven't seen him in about 15 years. What an epic way to show back up!
The Catholic priest just completely no-selling the dumbshit outrage culture the Fox News interviewers were pushing on him and instead focusing on how the commertialization of Christmas is an issue is iconic.
I mean that same priest wrote a book on the importance of making space for LGBTQ+ people within the Catholic church and has long been an advocate for the queer community so that interview was doomed for fox from the start
“you are excluding me from one of my nation’s national holidays” BY SAYING *HAPPY HOLIDAYS??????????* IT’S LITERALLY THE BROADEST POSSIBLE TERM. IS CHRISTMAS A HOLIDAY? YES? *THEN IT’S INCLUDED IN THE PHRASE HAPPY HOLIDAYS* i just. i can’t deal with these people.
also, what fucking leftists are trying to get LESS PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. i only ever see people advocating for MORE public holidays for other culture’s important celebrations, or at least setting a precedent for people from other cultural backgrounds to get their important days off work
It's a shibboleth. Saying "Merry Christmas" to someone and awaiting the reaction, is an easy way to see if they're also willing to restore/preserve the Christian hegemony over human civilization
Americans: "Don't force your stuff on us, we want to celebrate our Christmas without having to think of other types of celebration around the same time". Also Americans: telling everyone to have a happy thanksgiving all over the internet.
Especially to indigenous people on the internet, as if the holiday isn't a colonialist concept itself and is just a glorification of the massacre of the Nauset Pequot and Mashpee Wampanoag people. There's a reason why it's regarded as a National Day of Mourning to indigenous people, just like there's a remembrance day for the Holocaust. America isn't the only country in the world and not all countries celebrate the mass dying from settler-brought diseases and genocide against indigenous people masqueraded as a "wholesome" holiday to celebrate with family
So let me get this straight... The same people who says "its not a big deal" to misgender people and use the wrong pronouns on purpose to be indecent, are the same who say "it IS a big deal" to not say Merry Christmas cause it hurts their feelings and "destroys" their religion...
@@bannedvideos3399 I really wish I had the energy to argue with you but I've had this argument so many times that I can't bother to fail at convincing a brick wall of something
Yeah, these are the same people. Only what they believe matters, and these idiots believe that all trans people are p3dophiles but that the left is trying to destroy christmas, y'know, cuz that makes sense and is definitely the truth. It's sad.
As a Jewish person, I sure do love reading my bible and celebrating my christmases! Yessiree, I see Christmas as a holiday important to my religion, a religion partially defined by how we don’t think Jesus was the messiah. Yep, these guys obviously recognize how deeply hurt Jewish people are by Christmas being less prevalent, and it has NOTHING to do with how saying Jewish people are part of the groups that want to replace their culture makes it sound EVEN MORE similar to an infamous theory they totally DONT invoke for profit.
when i worked retail, a lady once complained to me at the register that someone had supposedly told her "happy holidays" at the walmart earlier. she went, "why not 'merry christmas'?" i said, "they probably wanted you to have a happy new year, too." christmas is a quixotic hell in retail, so i was exhausted and i think my brain broke. unprompted, i suddenly sang, "and a happy new year. good tidings we bring..." then i stopped, because i forgot the rest of the words. the woman appeared to be buffering for the rest of the transaction. she responded to my prompts ("do you have a rewards card?" etc) but didn't really speak until after she had paid. then she narrowed her eyes and looked directly at my face. she said very unmerrily, "merry christmas." and i smiled and said, "oh, thank you so much! you as well!" sometimes i still think about her face. and about how i got my very first traffic ticket driving home that night.
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@BlightWorxx as a borderline sociopathic madman with homicidal/suicidal tendencies, they weren't. They were making a basic joke about how Christmas gives them time off, and that means it should stay. also "normal person" is bulls**t, and why are you even on hbomberguys channel? He's left-wing, evidently unlike you.
And the Fox presenters are like deer in the headlights, like they clearly didn't expect him to say any of that, so they stick to the script and say "That's a good point! Anyway, here's a list of companies that don't include enough Christian symbology enough in their advertising."
The irony is the entire Christ story is an analog of stolen ancient astrological findings. That is why the rebirth myth is pervasive to many religions. Christianity basically rebranded paganism and codified capitalism with religious dogma. LOL Oh how the tables have turned.
@@sluttyMapleSyrup Outwardly only, I would argue. That said, the money changers were not representative of jesus' feelings on capitalism in general, but rather usury and what it has become, the stock markets and financialization (speculative trading and the profiteering of it while contributing nothing to the actual markets). That's not to say he was real or anything, but the ideas put forth by the author's and editors and their analogous protagonists that serve to codify and enter their approved values into social constructs, surely warned at the risk of such economic mechanisms. That said, it was an archaic time and if they really anticipated where we are to day, it must have only been roughly envisioned as an analog to the Pharos, much in the way that our modern billionaires are the counterpart to entities and powerful organizations such as they had at the time... As for aristocracy, what is the structural design of churches and the holy Trinity itself if not an architectural prototype of a monastic subversive counter to monarchist structures that dominated the social paradigm if the social organizations that formed post agricultural revolution?
@@seanwarren9357 I mean, I doubt they had a word for "capitalism" at the time, but his general philosophy of, "You cannot find enlightenment while burdened down by material possessions and money" is pretty antithetical to capitalism and consumerism. Using the lens of their time as best I can, they'd probably view corporations and the like as hidden dukes/barons; they control large amounts of people, have a sizeable amount of "land" (just oriented vertically or scattered across the planet in tiny boxes), are a primary source of income and facilitation of modern life, and exist within other "kingdoms" (nations)... Last paragraph: I think I'm following what you're saying, but there are too many technical terms back-to-back-to-back to where I can't even formulate a response because you've just overloaded my brain with sociological jargon 😆
As a raging militant atheist, when december starts and people wish me a Merry Christmas... I smile and wish them a Merry Christmas back. It's the right thing to do. 2000 years ago this cool hippie philosopher tried to tell people life would be better if they would just be a bit nicer to eachother and then got killed for it. Even if I don't believe this cool chap existed, the fact remains it's a nice story with a good message. The only thing that enrages me about the Christmas period is Mariah Carey's godawful Christmas song being played on the radio. every. fucking. hour. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and Happy Holidays as well.
Did you mean that you don’t believe Jesus was the son of God?? Cause he was a real person that existed… I understand not believing in God or that he was the son of God, but like he still existed just like you and me are existing.
Exactly this. Obviously I do not believe in a son of God, since I don't believe gods exist. There were mentions by historians of people like Jesus but no proof the Jesus of the bible actually existed. But that said, I have no problems with people believing he was real and was who his followers claim he is.
I mean it should be obvious but "Happy Holidays" also includes an implied "Happy New Year", so it's appropriate to say to people who you will not see from Christmas to New Years, such as your coworkers and casual acquaintances
I worked in a kitchen back in 2017 and I'm so glad because we got to blast alt rock 24/7 instead of the Christmas garbage that the rest of the place played.
AND NOT EVEN GOOD "CHRISTMAS MUSIC" LIKE THE TRANSIBERIAN ORCESTRA AND MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER. BUT EVERY HORRIBLE COVER OF SANTA BABY AND LAST CHRISTMAS (the only valid versions are Eartha Kitt and WHAM!)
I worked in retail every Christmas from the age of 15 (I lied about my age to get the job) and 24. I'd be on the front fucking lines for a war on Christmas and I'd bayonet Mariah Carey between the eyes
I absolutely love that the entire "Attack on Christmas" panic is completely shatttered by just remembering how many Christians straight up travel to another country just to see _Chinese New Year._ It's as if people like to party and watch fireworks, no matter what it's called
I remember the opening of 1984 when Orwell, in an attempt to establish the dystopian setting had the main character walk into his local Tesco to find that Christmas wad written nowhere in the store
thats the most annoying thing, when people try to reference 1984 as something that is equivalent to the way modern society is... like... i feel like most of them didnt even read 1984... or if they did they entirely missed the fucking point of it lmfao
and by that i mean when u see a video talking about mask / vax mandates and there are hundreds of comments saying "THIS IS THE FUTURE ORWELL WARNED US ABOUT" or "1984 IS HERE" without realizing that they have literally made this comment on their internet connected device... like bro if u have a phone the listening post is already on ur person at all times... they already gotchu boomers and u dont even realize it
@@kg7219 yes. I hear this all the time and the worst part is that a right wing version"1984" is possible to. Like people think it was a warning against leftism according to them. But think about it. Instead of "big brother is watching you" it would be something like "God is watching you". The message is about obedience not "radical Marxism". I think a version of insoc could exist in both the left and right. I've noticed they use God to throw out criticism. I've seen people like prageru qeustion the first amendment for allowing other religions to exist in the county and by qeustioning the legimacy of the first amendment. He's also the same guy that made the infamous quote of "if you value your life, obey". Let that sink in.
there was never a real war on christmas, but there's always been a war on halloween. this year i saw christmas decorations in stores as early as MID OCTOBER
You know, I just realized something. It’s a bit grim to have crosses out on Christmas, isn’t it? “Happy birthday Jesus, to celebrate here’s the instrument of your demise.” Thinking about it, my church never really had more than the usual amount of crosses for Christmas. Focus was on wreaths and candles.
Yeah, I've never understood using a medieval torturing device as the symbol for your patron. The rock rolled away from his tomb would frankly make more sense. Or the crown of thorns, even. Though I guess using a symbol of torture does lean into the far-right kink of persecution and martyrdom.
@@OdinsSage Fun fact: I've seen some Christians use the icthus (I call it the Jesus Fish). The reason it's a fish is that the first letters of the Greek translation of the phrase "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior" spell out 'icthus,' which is the Greek word for fish. However, I haven't seen anyone try to replace the cross with the icthus.
To be fair, I think he said that as a way of getting in a little dig at people who are willing to share their emotions instead of bottling them up until they become school shooters, but yeah.
To be fair, as a Jew, I am vaguely annoyed at the people who demonstrate their wokeness by remembering that Chanuka exists (only because it's next to Christmas) and they're all HAPPY HOLIDAYS but don't actually pay attention to Jews' important holidays, or care about Jews struggling not to use up all their vacation days just so they can celebrate their holidays
I just noticed that Hbomberguy pronounces the "t" in Christmas. I've lived in the US basically my entire life, and at least for where I've lived, the t has always been silent. I guess British people just really can't do without their T.
@@NeonKnight707 People with high T are known to go bald by their 30s, which hbomb has done (having foreshadowed it by telling us in the Soy Boys video that he had high T). Also I wouldn't describe him as "limp wristed" or "lispy", but I suppose I should expect a certain amount of gratuitous homophobia from someone called "Thunder-Cock". (Who I doubt actually watched the video. Notably, one of the passages James Somerton stole was about how camp illustrates that gender roles are superficial, a matter of style!)
Can we talk for a minute about how disingenuous the phrase "Judeo-Christian" is when talking about the war on Christmas? Since Jews, pretty famously, aren't the ones fighting to keep Christ in Christmas.
Everyone’s got plenty of time for one Pathologic and half a RWBY before we get started Edit: He really wasn’t lying all those years ago when he talked about his testosterone, we’re about two videos away from him looking like Kratos
I love how people would complain about "the sjws", "political correct people", snowflakes, participation trophy generation, cancel culture and censorship in one breath, and then moan about someone saying "happy holidays".
It’s all the same people. That’s the thing you start to realize about these sides is they’re basically the same. I mean if you want a room full of uptight Christian conservatives and liberal gender studies majors to agree on something tell them Videogames are bad. They’ll say different things, one will talk about how it corrupts the youth and violence and the other will spout about ist and phobias but they both reach the same conclusion
@@creed8712 no liberal gender studies major says "Bideo gaem bad" you Muppet. They're asking people to make better games by including more characters that non-white people can see themselves as, to not fall into empty stereotypes, or they're saying that this was a trend and this is the reason why. Go read an actual paper.
@@creed8712 You know there are many Liberals and Communist that actually play videogame. The fact that you mention game in a video unrelated to game show the fact that you are a Hardcore Gamergater. BTW being Incel is not cool.
i'm an american muslim who celebrates christmas in the secular, festive "give gifts, eat food" kind of way. try being anything but a christian in this country and then tell me how "under attack" christanity is. my parents raised us muslim and yet my sister and i know more about christianity and christian mythology because literally 70% of this country is christian and you tend to pick it up in everyday life. christianity, christmas, etc. is going absolutely nowhere. and that's actually an oddly comforting thing after this horrible year. happy holidays, everyone.
The biggest tip I ever got back when I busked in Boston was from a woman wearing a hijab. It was around the holidays so I was only playing Christmas tunes. Who gives a busker $20? I talked to my Muslim aunt about it and she was not in the least bit surprised. She's from Pakistan and both her and her family love Christmas despite being observant Muslims. I was raised Catholic but I'm not a particularly religious adult and I love it, too, so it makes sense. It's just a fun thing to do, and what's wrong with that? If it means something to your religion fine, celebrate it the way you want, no one's saying you can't, but don't take a dump on the rest of us who want to enjoy it, too, and celebrate it the way we want to.
Massive respect for recognising that sometimes we all need to return to the status quo, even if the "normal" state of things doesn't necessarily align with your beliefs. Sometimes all we need is a half-decent reason to not be shitty towards each other, and personally I don't really care if it's called "Christmas" or "Ramadan" or "Hannukah" or whatever. Happy holidays! 😉
as an athiest whenever everyone says merry christmas i turn green and my heart shrinks and i steal lots of presents and i put it in a big sack and then my dog drives me away in a flying sleigh
I'm always deeply amused that Fox chose Father Martin as their guest. They obviously don't do any research or they would have known he wouldn't parrot their talking points
I also think its somewhat disturbing that these grifters will constantly say "Judeo-Christian" or "Christians and Jews" whenever they are making their points, even when the things they're saying only applies to Christians. They're playing the "I can't be antisemitic because I'm constantly including Jewish people" argument.
@@alicethemad1613 not even just then. I have had non-Jewish physicians say that Jewish doctors who don’t want to work on the sabbath are just trying to get out of work, meanwhile they are extremely supportive of Christian or Muslim doctors wanting off for the same number of days. But the Jews who push back on that are just “overreacting” and need to chill. It happens everywhere, even among educated people.
@@MsZsc IQ is largely useless as a tool. About the only thing it's good for is testing your ability to take tests. It gives racist, sexist, ageist, ethnocentric, urbanist, and anti-neurodivergent results, and your score can be affected by a good 40 points by missing your morning coffee. To call IQ a tool is like calling a ¼" breaker bar a tool: under _very_ specific circumstances, it can be not only very useful, but exactly what you need; the rest of the time it's a novelty item that got sold to you as a tool. EDIT: Um... It looks like the comment I was responding to ceased to be by the time I responded? Eh, I'll leave this up in case anyone else is confused.
Getting my friend to watch the hbomberguy political videos so he'll respect hbomberguy enough as an authority source so I can moffatpill him with the Sherlock video
@@hbomberguy I have a lot of people in my life who hold leftist political views but also think Sherlock is great and moffat is an all time great show runner
@@henryam503 this is actually how it went for me lmoa I used to love Sherlock and had since lost interest in it but still thought it was good. and then i found hbomb from his political videos and /then/ watched the sherlock video. and yeah.
I’m sorry but seeing Alex Jones screaming “Merry Christmas” at the top of his lungs while concerned passerbys just slowly shuffle away from him is definitely a highlight of my 2020.
As well as White Christmas being written for a movie literally called Holiday Inn, it was written for Berlin’s son who passed away on Christmas Day. The fact that it is called White Christmas makes perfect since when you put those two things together, that it was written for a movie set partially during Christmas and to mourn his son who died on Christmas Day. Truly mind boggling things happening over at PragerU.
Also screaming about how he won't be silenced... as nobody is even remotely trying. That said, it would have been funny as shit if a bunch of cops dressed in over-the-top-80's-movie-badguy-uniforms were to come out from nowhere and he had to run for his life.
I love how conservatives whine about how during pride everyone "panders to the gays" then cry that an ad doesn't have enough Christian iconography in it.
I know, I know, @@corbeaudejugement. I was just being cheeky because I find this "I love " phrasing itself sort of weird (not good, nor bad, just weird).
One time someone told me merry Christmas and without thinking, I said merry Christmas back. We’re both in the gulag now, but he’s my jailhouse lover and gets people to give us cigarettes for a round with my bum, so it’s going well.
Real talk, the only reason I don't like hearing people say "Merry Christmas" is because I live in an area FULL of right-wingers that believe this kind of thing to a scary degree. And it makes me afraid some of them would actually try to attack me, most likely verbally but possibly physically, if I say "Happy Holidays" instead.
It is for his audience. There seem to be surprisingly many people who still think it is about censorship and about not being allowed to call a spade a spade. They also complain about how minorities get to use slurs, but they don't because they are being oppressed.
@@davidwuhrer6704 it has nothing to do with oppression for us but rather that we believe words shouldn’t be excluded from the dictionary for emotions sake
Angrily shouting "MERRY CHRISTMAS" at passers by while completely ignoring all the love and compassion the holiday's supposed to represent is about as 'merican as one can get.
I’ve actually kinda recognised the opposite problem. Stores near me (aside from a few places like home goods) have a very slim selection of Hanukkah or even just non secular wrapping paper. And I live in a relatively progressive area. Obviously the war on Christmas isn’t so much of a war if every store I go to has piles upon piles of Christmas merchandise and maybe 1 Hanukkah item
They're just hiding the real truth. Tommy invented Christmas, but for a different universe, and didnt realise Christmas had been illegally sold to our universe on a Religion Sample Pack CD.
"The communist Socialist System of Islam" is the most wrong and nonsensical sentence i ever heard, and i LOVE it! Edit: Happy Hollydays you Soyboys! I hope y'all survived 2020's hangover
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 it’s a blanket term used for anything from the Middle East area of planet earth. Doesn’t matter if that’s where they are from or even what they believe. It’s just “MUSLIM” because we need a scapegoat to help us ignore the underlying fact that most of America is about to implode on itself if actually work to fix it doesn’t start soon.
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 i mean communism is just a word for "thing i dont like" in america. this one lady held a sign that said "integration is communism!" when segregation was around lmao
"First they came for the n-word users and I did not speak out, because I don't use the n-word. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me." - Alex Jones
@Gaius Octavius nah, Alex Jones seems more like the guy to hide his racism in thin veils Like an old grandpa type racism but a bit more intense and active
The root of it is insecurity from a perceived threat. Since White Conservatives Christians have held all the power until relatively recently, they don't see inclusive policies as uplifting the oppressed, but see it as oppression on them.
It doesn't bode well for me that I didn't learn how IQ was debunked as a form of measuring intelligence until this video that I only found like a month ago
@@Sonichero151 I get that american racists have effed up the notion of IQ in the people's mind with those dumb maps (the maps should be monochromatic because iq is based on the distribution of results in a given culture, language, social group AND age group so you can't compare groups) but IQ is still a very useful tool for finding outliers and accomodating them (the gifted and intellectually disabled) in the school system (which is what IQ is for in the first place). And we still haven't found a better way to find them Basically IQ for individuals isn't debunked (because it's the best tool we have to find outliers now), IQ for groups (the one racists use) is obviously debunked because it relied on using the tests completely wrong
@@boazshalit1579 After literally 10 Years, we still have this 'Boob Groping as s-ual Entertainment' from and for Idiots on CZcams... man, cant no one report or flag that stuff?
I was arguing with a jabroni on Facebook and he had the audacity to say " I don't debate with anyone with an iq under 200". My butthole almost prolapsed from the shock.
Republicans get their balls in a twist about "the war on christmas" and act like Christianity is being wiped out as if Christmas has had anything to do with religion in that past 30 years. where were these people when Christmas started to get extremely commercialized?
One of the most played old timey Christmas songs is literally "Happy Holidays" sung by Bing Freaking Crosby, from back when America was apparently great. We've said it since I was born over 50 years ago. Probably because, fun fact, Christmas and New Year's day are a week apart every year, and it's quicker than saying "Have a Merry Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" every time.
I would add sentimentality and superficiality to the list.People get caught up in decoration, food, the a e s t h e t i c... Just say you're celebrating Yule, or whatever pagan tradition all of the above originated from.
I am Atheist and I hate the Commerciality that has crept into Christmas when these People mention the war on Christmas do they mean the we should get Back to the real meaning of Christmas Celebration of the Birth of Christ let's face it the Christian why don't People Propose that and see how how Much PragueU is onboard with that
As someone who works in shopping malls, I WISH the War on Christmas was real and I don't have to listen to the same handful of Christmas songs every single day!
One of my friends has a competition with their family to see who can last longest without hearing last Christmas by wham. So you could make a game out of it if you want.
Guys, I'm commenting this from the year 2345. Take this war on Christmas seriously. In the year 2269 they made it mandatory for us to say "Have a Black Lives Matter Pansexual Holiday that spits on the lord". This is serious!
yesterday i ate a red white and blue cookie that said patriotic cookies instead of 4th of july cookies and i promptly shat on the floor of the walmart i bought it in
Kinda, sorta, partially... since Christianity is an offspring of Judaism, it overlaps when it comes to the Old Testament. And since Islam is also an abrahamitic religion, Jesus is - what was it, I forgot, a prophet or a saint? - EDIT: If you have a dark sense of humor, it's almost funny that members of the basically same religion kept and still keep killing each other over slight alterations to their doctrine.
would like to clarify that we don't read the "bible" but the torah christians basically don't care much about the torah, ideologically speaking, except for the homophobic parts, so the cultural overlap is pretty much nil i do find i relate to muslims way more than christians though
@@mootroidXproductions That's a fair point. I was raised roman-catholic, but by now I'm an agnostic theist. Can't say I cared much about how God is described in the Old Testament. He was mean and vengeful. This might very well be tinkering on the part of the people who put the Bible together.
@Jason Weaver I would think that his teachings would be more of a cornerstone of the faith than the circumstances of his birth, from a practical standpoint. Which would be the same regardless of if he were divine or a prophet. But then again, the people who scream most loudly about Jesus don't tend to think very highly of his actual teachings...
As a Muslim when I'm told Merry Christmas, i start spontaneously sprouting green hair all over my body and start scheming to steal and smile menacingly
Merry Christmas dear
@@ashtonmattrt3668 chag Sameach :o)
@@S3lkie-Gutz Merry Christmas dear
You're a mean one...
@@heavyhauler426Mr. Grinch
as a jewish person every time someone wishes me a merry christmas i instantly lose 10 hp and enact my vengeance on the nearest available christmas tree
As you should
It’s tradition to create matzah ball based artillery to be fired at Christmas tree farms, everyone knows that
Why? What does your being Jewish have to do with religion? A lot of people and entities (hello, Britannica) seem to confuse Jewish and Judaism. One is a race comprised of multiple ethnicities and the other is an umbrella covering a variety pack of religious flavors. Your comment was funny, though, and if that's the reason, it's reason enough.
Ironically, Prager is Jewish. Surprised that wasn't mentioned in the video.
I really can’t understand this, would you be offended if a Christian wished you happy Hanukkah? I ask this as an atheist puzzled by the apparent double standards of competing religions.
This is fun watching this in 2023 hearing the classic "cultural Marxism" and "politically correct" before they condensed all their scary buzzwords down to just "woke."
😂😂😂
Remember when the sale crowd was complaining about people calling everyone a n*zi? And that doing so would make the word loose meaning?
Wok wok wok
Like if they changed how they said it, it'll hurt us more or something. XD
I was actually thinking about their use of the word "woke" when part of their rally is to tell people to "wake up" to the war on Christmas.
If you start this video at exactly 11:33pm on christmas eve, then just as the clock strikes midnight Alex Jones angrily yells merry christmas at you
This is a top quality tip, and should be pinned to the top
creased :D
That is excellent.
Will keep this in mind this year
I'm gonna do it!
If you see this comment, please reply to it so I'm constantly reminded and don't forget. Will update on how it goes this December!
Just today a customer told me "Merry Christmas". The whole store fell silent and then my manager asked the man to step outside with him. A moment later, a single shot rang out; we all knew what had happened, but no one dared discuss it.
sincerest condolences from old europe.
I'm miss retail and the summary executions. I worked in the body shop and I tell ya we were well stocked
Merry Christmas 😁
Soon it will be over, this terrible war.
The things I've seen... the mass graves... just limp piles of red coats and fluffy white beards and shiny black boots.
I remember when we burned the crackers, and the decorations. Like machine gun fire it was, for minutes on end.
So many terrible terrible jokes... someones life's work, up in smoke in an instant. And we cheered. Real "christmas cheer", hah.
Soon it will be over, and we will have won. But at what cost? I ask you that. And how will we pay when the bill comes due?
I'm glad your manager felt able to do the right thing. I just wish we could extend the extra judicial killings to customers who try to return shoes after wearing them for 6 months.
Just the fact that Alex Jones CAN walk around screaming merry christmas without any consequences kind of disproves his own point. Seems to be using his freedom of speech pretty freely for someone who claims to not have any.
But there are consequences, I get to call him a cunt.
this is pretty much how i finally got my grandparents to be accepting of others pronouns, PC culture, and identities. I literally asked "do you like people thinking you're rude and mean? because thats all it is." pundits want you to believe youre going to be executed by the woke mob for misgendering someone, when all it is is basic courtesy
yeah it really does doesn't it?
at least he can say that one lol
It's like when Dave Chappelle said all that stuff about trans people while also making out he can't say those things anymore 😂
(By the way, I really like Dave Chappelle, but him talking about cancel culture while being paid millions on Netflix to say whatever he likes, was pretty weak)
Tower Recon… Towereco… Tallarico... Thank you Tommy Tallarico for saving Christmas, your mother is very proud
Oh my god you're on to something
As someone whose just recently caught up with Hbomberguy lore, this is the funniest thing Ive ever read in a while
The first American to save Christmas !
He worked directly with Santa for five years!
His employee, Irving Berlin, wrote White Christmas! Wait, I mean, he co-wrote it with Irving Berlin! Wait, no, he wrote it and Irving Berlin was also there!
Let's all have a moment of silence for the brave soldiers that die every year in the war on Christmas. Without their sacrifice, Mariah Carey would finally breach containment.
The real SCP
Santa needs to be brough to justice for his many, many war crimes committed in this truly awful war.
Another Atheist spreading lies! The Krampus is a rogue agent and Santa should not be held accountable and any elf will testify as such.
If what we have now is considered “contained”, I can only imagine the destruction if she were left unopposed
I love the fucking priest who comes in like "nah actually it would be better if stores had less Christmas" so good
@Christopher Grant
Better not come to the Middle East for eid al'adha then 😅
God, thosr sheep are expensive.
Drive them merchants out the temple!
@@littlebigheroman and drive them with the new Kia Ford beetle buggy car go brrrr, coming this holiday only at Tesla retailers
@@isapu1948 as i understand sheeps are expensive only in the big cities i remember hearing somone says that a sheep costs nearly 50 - 200 euros
"I love the fucking priest" -Rob Mckennie
Back when England was a theocracy, the puritans actually did try to stop Christmas. They realised that Christmas was both pagan and Catholic. And it gave the poor a day off work. They did not like any of that.
And don’t forget the begging, violence and heavy drinking
Same puritans who sailed to the new world and founded colonies there?
@@istvankarolyfarkas6125 only the extremists went to the new world, after the theocracy collapsed and the monarchy was invited back and they could not cope.
@@jasonports8517 it’s not begging it’s grown up trick or treat, and the rest is just British culture not yet channeled into football.
It really does bare repeating that the only war on Christmas was carried out by hardline Protestants. The American bunch probably would have executed O'Reilly and Jones for heresy. Or at least flogged them for adulatory and moral indecency.
I actually made the shift away from saying Merry Christmas a few years ago, not because I'm a Leftie Godless Heathen™ (although I am), but because when I said it reflexively to this one lady at the grocery store she thanked me for sticking it to the Liberals and standing up for Christianity and she started ranting about how people who say happy holidays are terrible and on and on and on, and I was like, I don't want to be associated with her or people like her, I'm never saying that again
This. Agnostic christian here.
I'd look her right in the eyes and say, "You ruined it. Happy Hanukkah."
radical belief in anything is unappealing and ruins it. they want to spread hate thru xmas
I actually don’t think this helps, the best thing to do for culture war shit is to just ignore it and keep living your life as if you’d never heard them, otherwise you are adding to the us vs them world view they have and becoming part of the problem
@@josephknott6174 It's not us versus them, it's them versus us, and I don't want to be mistaken for someone who uses that kind of language as an inflammatory dog whistle against other people like me. I just want to live my life but now I have to be careful and watch my language so I'm not mistaken for a bigot. I'm not the one who drew the line but I know which side of it I'm going to stand on.
Reckon you should have followed up her rant with "...and a Happy Channukah too"
As an observant Jew, I always find it quite ironic when the religious right uses the phrase "Judeo-Christian values" to justify imposing Christian values on the entire country, including Jews.
And it outright bothers me when Ben Shapiro does this 🙄
Christmas at this point is utter crap taken over by the anti-semitic remnants of December 24th, 2004 and apathy.
Seriously, it's like... Half of those people whose "values" you're protecting, don't worship Jesus or celebrate Christmas... 😭
It outright bothers me when Ben Shapiro
@@samueldeadman5733The most important part of protect Judeo-Christian values is to not reflect on actual traditions nor the teachings of Jesus, but to take whatever you fancy happening and force it on Christians and Jews.
I honestly don't even understand what "Judeo-Christian" is supposed to mean
Anyone who begins an argument with “first they say I can’t say the N word…” is pretty much setting themselves up for failure
the most oppressed minority are capital G Gamers
@@wolfetteplays8894 Free speech =/= free from consequences
Except Alex Jones is incredibly rich and InfoWars is incredibly successful so very unfortunately for our society that's apparently not true :(
@@voidbreather7405 and that good thing
First they say I can't say the N word and now they're telling me to put on the maid outfit!
"It's about the birth of Jesus, not big corporations!!" exclaims Alex Jones, complaining about how big corporations aren't using the word "christmas" enough.
and also while wearing 12k watches 😂
Its not even about the birth of chirst, he was born in the fall when they did the cenus, chirstmas is a ploy to convert pagans and make people stray, idk y people think slamming God on something pagan and calling it a day, that doesnt make it chirstian.
@@shelleyhayden8908 Christianity has a pretty long rap sheet for subverting others' cultures.
@@qwertydog9795 exactly, but in a movement to convert more pagans the church stole some pagan holidays, chirstmas and Easter, like how does a bunny that poops eggs have to do with Christ dying and coming back, it's a fertility holiday from pagans.... and so many chirstian get up in arms about the fact their tradition is against what thier beliefs clearly state.
@@shelleyhayden8908 i like how to convert the pagans the church became hslf pagan itself lol
I used to be Christian and I remember this one not-so-well-known bible verse that was one of my favorites: "And the Lord said unto thee: thou shalt scream and cry and throw a temper tantrum on live TV when the existence of other religions is publicly acknowledged by corporations in order to make money. Now go forth and commercialize the fuck out of your own beliefs until you don't even remember what those beliefs are anymore." -Throwafiticus 4:20
lol @ "Throwafiticus"
😂😂
1-Make up an enemy
2-Claim it's planning to destroy something wholesome everyone loves
3-Pretend to fight it, mainly by screaming a lot and acting scared, ask for support to fight it
4-Watch the cash pour in. When people point out that nothing catastrophic has ever happened, just tell them "you're welcome"
5-Repeat
Literally the gender pay gap
@MatthewWarley Yeah I have no idea how delusional idiots can stillptetend that exists
@@MatthewWarleyhow in the world did you manage to come up with an "example" so far removed from reality?? I'm honestly a little impressed with how far the point went soaring over your little head lol.
My rock stops tigers!
every time a conservative says "judeo-christian" while referring exclusively to Christians my rage grows
Can't Wait To Tell My Fellow "Muslim-Buddhists" About This!
How do you do fellow greek mythologist-taoists
@@queuedjar4578 Fairly well, my atheist-satanists
@@user-gd5dj2nj6c I'm intrigued, please elaborate and rationalize on your statement. And no, I'm not someone on the left who will just delegitimize your position and cancel you by screaming anti-semetic and burning down your entire local community. Just talk to me.
has to leverage Christianity's roots, but then conveniently ignores its pagan ones.
Islam of course doesn't count as one of the Abrahamic Religions too.
I once had a guy complaining to me about how people these days are too easily offended. I wholeheartedly agreed and said, "Like how people get their panties in a twist when you say, 'Happy Holidays' instead of 'Merry Christmas.'" He proceeded to get his panties in a twist.
It's not even funny anymore how the irony is lost on many people who complain about "others" being too easily offended nowadays.
@@willguggn2 The word 'offended' has lost all meaning. I don't tell people I'm 'offended' any more. If such an incident occurs, I tell them either (a) "that's irritating" or (b) "that makes me want to punch you." I have no time for nuance anymore. I have radicalised my responses.
No one in the history of humankind has been killed or tortured for believing in the wrong imaginary person or saying something mean about royalty. Ever.
Before social media we weren't able to see loads of people being annoyed or offended by things big or small, therefore no one used to get offended.
@@devononair
If you call that radicalized, then boy are you a lightweight.
@@_Somsnosa_ *cough cough* crusades, holocaust *cough cough*
Even if Christianity was the only religion and everyone practiced it, "Happy Holidays" would still make sense, because there's literally another holiday we celebrate 7 days later!
My mother bought into the War on Christmas bullshit. She ranted about it for a good hour one day a few years ago. I said, "get in the car, we're going shopping." Which for her is like a dog hearing the can opener going.
We stop at Wal-Mart. I walked directly to the outdoor section, which is always converted into the holiday section. I stopped and said "What do you see?" "christmas stuff" she says. "What was in the season candy area when we came in?" "Christmas stuff."
I left. "Wait, we're not shopping?" "We're window shopping." To home depot. Same deal. Same response. She obviously knows what's going on and is now trying to convince me to head home. "Oh no. We're far from done." After six or seven stores, all with prominently displayed and advertised Christmas sections, we finally went home.
I've not heard about the War since.
Well done !
That was brutal
I need to do this to my grandpa next time he starts ranting about something like that. It’s so irritating having to listen to him jerk Fox News off every single Christmas because he thinks his religion is being “oppressed”.
the nun of my street ranted about it this past christmas. i live in mexico pretty catholic place here in guadalajara we have some sort of secret catholic society called Los tecos (which is supposed to come from tecolotes, a sort of owl , although the name is also an acronym ) but i digress on christmas time we have some kind of party before christmas day comes they are called posadas and are meant to represent the when joseph and mary were seacrhing for a place to stay we sing and the hosts of the party give food and before eating in my case (because the how its done varies a lot between streets) we have a little ceremony were the nuns give a speech about being thankfull and this time they also talked about how everybody says felices fiestas (which is basically happy holidays)
and that catholics are under attack the whole show and i was there thinking about this video ( if you read all this thank you i really really like talkign about how things are around were i lived and seeing how cultures contrast)
"It's the consumerism that's really the problem for me" "Okay, let's look at some stores that took christmas out of their mottos." What an incredible segment.
An immaculate segue, really
Also it's totally on fox too, if they did any research into Fr. James Martin they would know he's extremely liberal priest, someone more conservative might have agreed with them
Fr. James is based
I can just hear the "shut up" and the "cut the segment" from producers because they lost their push.
I said “Merry Christmas” to a customer at my job once. I was executed by firing squad after 14 months of grueling torture. This is my vengeful millennial ghost, nestled within the internet forevermore.
We shall never forget your sacrifice
@@nenmaster5218 this is the scariest reply I’ve had all day congratulations and do continue with said recommendation unless it’s religious propaganda then please kindly F off
We shall avenge you
I work at Tesco. Whenever a customer says "Merry Christmas" to me I add £10 to their total. If they complain I remove them from the store. The manager knows I do this but is fearful to do anything thanks to Cultural Marxism.
Only 14 months? They are really going soft on you.
It's the week before Halloween, 2023.
I just tried to buy a new rake and some biodegradable leaf bags at Lowes.
I was accosted by a pair of life-size audio-animatronic Santa statues. Their mouths gaped open and closed as their tinny voices played over one another. Their arms jerked up and down. One of them said "Hello, what would you like for Christmas?" as the other one said "Christmas is the best time of year for good little boys and girls!"
All the Halloween stuff was in the clearance section.
In the war on Christmas, Christmas swung first. I am acting in self-defense.
I'm sorry you had to go through that
Seriously! I went to buy halloween candy the day before Halloween and it was already replaced by the green and red wrapped Christmas candy. How we supposed to continue the long standing tradition of eating the first bag of candy myself and needing to run out last minute so the trick or treaters get some too! 😅
i hope the police took your statement and took appropriate action, getting assaulted by Christmas decor is no laughing matter
I love Christmas but it keeps coming too soon every year
"uhm actually, Jack Skellington swung first" 🤓
The war on Christmas is a very real thing started by retail workers after having to listen to all the Christmas music playing on repeat the entire season. Fair, honestly. That kind of torture would drive Christians to war on Christmas.
never a truer comment
I worked in an American mall ten years ago and I still can't hear Michael Buble without getting Vietnam style war flashbacks
I DON'T WANT A LOT FOR CHRISTMAS, THERE'S JUST ONE THING THAT I NEEEEED
As a Christian, I personally love that one bit in the bible when Jesus says: "New go forth and complain about menial shit for money."
I liked the part where he said “it’s Jesusing time” and then he Jesused all over the place. Probably one the best moments in Bible
That's his exact quote when he was whipping merchants and throwing tables out his church.
Well, you can make fictional characters say anything you like, so there's _that._
@@unduloid well yeah but this comment specifically references the Bible which is like an actual hard real book. Just because Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character doesn’t mean that I can say that he said “the true meaning of Christmas is the friends we made along the way” in one of his books and not lie.
@@lasarousi
Temple. Churches didn't exist back then. And it was common practice to hold markets at the temple grounds when they were not in use, so Jesus was just being weird, as usual.
My ultra conservative aunt always invites my 100-yr-old grandmother’s favorite catholic priest over for the holidays, and likes to bring this topic up. It usually backfires when she remembers he’s an ultra progressive former druggie who immediately shuts her down every time she starts badmouthing the lesbian neighbors.
LOL assuming this priest is at least in his 70s, most of the nuns he's known were probably lesbians.
It amazes me how Catholicism is the oldest and most conservative sect of Christianity but its priest and members are generally the most progressive, especially amongst American Christians. I think part of it is that catholic priests have to go to school for a very long time and have to devote their whole life to be priest, as well as sacrifice their social and romantic lives. Because of this, they actually know what it means to be a true Christian. But this isolation is also why so many catholic priests are pedophiles, so there needs to be a balance.
@@mattschumacher4581 Catholicism is by no means the oldest or the most conservative sect of Christianity. Orthodox Christianity has them beat on that, and don't have the whole priests being touchie problem that Catholicism does. Mandated clerical celibacy created that entire scandal.
@@JetShanghai isn't that a contradiction? Catholic Christians and Orthodox Christians are of the same blood and split at the same time. This paired along with the fact that the pedo issue is due to similar factors.
@@laurenf.7922 No, because Catholicism split from Orthodoxy. If you compare the early theology of the Church with that of today, you will see that Rome departed in 1054. Only one of those two groups could be the original, undivided Church. We Orthodox have married priests and our sexual abuse is virtually unheard of. So those criticisms do not apply to Orthodoxy.
I'm going insane. I'm not an English native speaker and I hesitated to say "holidays" in other than religious things because I thought it was HOLY-DAYS
that is where the word comes from, yes! but it’s changed over the years to mean any day of celebration, holy or otherwise. you’re not far off!
@@plushdragonteddy and don't British people use "holiday" to mean basically "vacation"? Like "I was on holiday in Berlin visiting some extended family." or "my husband and I went on holiday to Mallorca."
@@tuesdaysellers1545 yup! i have heard that usage, too. as a native speaker, english is weird lol
English is a bastardized language where one word can mean three or four potentially completely unrelated things. Or where one word has three or four completely different spellings, even though they all sound the exact same. Welcome to HELL.
I'm embarrassed of my past self, because I took people like this seriously. PragerU, Ben Shapiro, even Alex Jones. I bought into their harmful ideas and that is part of the reason it took me a while to accept that I am bisexual. I wish I could go back and shake sense into myself because I was so bitter and cynical back then. I appreciate you putting out videos like this, because they could be what helps people break out of the destructive path they are going down.
Character development is being able to cringe at your old self and say, "I know better now." :)
The world appreciates people like you who are able to change their mind when presented with new information and put their ego aside! Thank you for being better than a lot of people out there who aren’t willing to do so…
This works even better if you read it in Gaston's voice
@cloverbun2574 Honestly, I can't read it any other way.
You shouldn't be embarrassed you should be proud of yourself. Good on you for coming to a better conclusion. It is very hard to change your worldview it takes a lot of self-reflection and putting aside your bias. Most people are unable to do so
I attended catholic school up until high school, and everybody always said "Happy Holidays". I always took it to mean "Oh, it's because we are celebrating 2 holidays, Christmas and New Years." So to me, the fact that these people go out of their way to victimize themselves with such a mundane phrase is insane.
Yeah, every sane person just assumes that when you say happy holidays you mean the current one, which in this case would be Christmas. I guess some people don't know what holiday it is and they need to be told specifically.
It's a whole holiday season, like multiple holidays even if you're a Christian American.
You've got Halloween straight into thanksgiving then christmas then new years plus celebrating that the school year is over, it's a crazy part of the year
@@abadenoughdude300 Haha that's a good take.
And this is the fact is many other languages! even in French we say Happy Holidays very often, to include New Year Eve :)
I just assumed people used the phrase because they both start with the same letter. Like Stan Lee and his character's names
The craziest thing is that HBomb wanted this to come out last year so badly, but he was just a week or so behind schedule, so by the time he finished it, he announced on his twitter that he was so committed to releasing the video *on Christmas* that he'd just wait a year and hope it didn't lose relevancy. And now, one year later, Christmas is in such a state of jeopardy that it almost feels like this is a break. Absolutely amazing.
I was just about to say this!!
That's hilarious.
Hbomb was behind covid, he did it so people would be free to see his video.
He released it normally a year ago for his patrons so honestly fuck that :v
what is this video about though?
We don’t even need to worry about “taking Christ out of Christmas” because the entire commercialization of the holiday is EXACTLY what Christ would be against! It’s not even about togetherness anymore, it’s about the presents and the money and we know it!
I'm no bible expert but didn't he destroy the tables people sat up to sell things on in the temple because he considered it defiling?
He's against the commercialization of religion and the exploitation of people to get money in its name
@@janjanbinks1710 That’s exactly what He did. He drove people out with a whip because it made Him so angry that they were unfairly profiting off of people. I can’t imagine how upset a holiday meant to celebrate togetherness being so commercialized would make Him - let alone that many people celebrate HIS BIRTHDAY on it no less!
I feel like Christ would feel fine about the consumerism aspect of Christmas as long as everybody who was able to, donated food and toys to the annual toy drives/soup kitchens. I've never been religious, but the big thing I took away from mandatory religion classes was that Christ only ever wanted people to help those less fortunate than themselves, and to stay humble by remembering that, even if you're not doing great yourself, there's always someone in a worse position who could use your help. And that's a GREAT message for anyone. Buying a bunch of toys to donate around the holidays is still engaging in the commercialisation of Christmas, but at least it goes towards something positive - making a sick child stuck in hospital on the big day feel a bit happier. Meanwhile I'm sure people like Alex Jones wouldn't donate anything to anyone, and would describe it as a certain word (hint: it begins with 's'!).
Mind blown. The guy with the glasses at 33:00 used to be a close friend of mine but I haven't seen him in about 15 years. What an epic way to show back up!
W for this guys friend
The Catholic priest just completely no-selling the dumbshit outrage culture the Fox News interviewers were pushing on him and instead focusing on how the commertialization of Christmas is an issue is iconic.
Some people just don't want to watch the world burn for nothing.
I'm fairly sure Right-Wing crazies normally hate Jesuits, so this was doomed to happen. I love this guy.
They could have called him a communist.
@@TheRoyalKnightPain19 nah, that would be the Mennonites and Hutterites.
I mean that same priest wrote a book on the importance of making space for LGBTQ+ people within the Catholic church and has long been an advocate for the queer community so that interview was doomed for fox from the start
as a blue haired, pronoun'd, secular leftist, every time i hear someone say "merry christmas," i experience an uncontrollable, rabid bloodlust
Agreed, although I can’t tell if the bloodlust stems from Christmas itself or just the Mariah Carey song
i just experience regular lust... wait what?
Damn you got pronouns? My nouns wanted to go pro, but they broke their ankle right before tryouts.
@@tortis6342What fucking noobnouns.
@@tortis6342this is genuinely one of the funniest things I’ve ever read
“you are excluding me from one of my nation’s national holidays” BY SAYING *HAPPY HOLIDAYS??????????* IT’S LITERALLY THE BROADEST POSSIBLE TERM. IS CHRISTMAS A HOLIDAY? YES? *THEN IT’S INCLUDED IN THE PHRASE HAPPY HOLIDAYS*
i just. i can’t deal with these people.
also, what fucking leftists are trying to get LESS PUBLIC HOLIDAYS. i only ever see people advocating for MORE public holidays for other culture’s important celebrations, or at least setting a precedent for people from other cultural backgrounds to get their important days off work
It's a shibboleth. Saying "Merry Christmas" to someone and awaiting the reaction, is an easy way to see if they're also willing to restore/preserve the Christian hegemony over human civilization
Americans: "Don't force your stuff on us, we want to celebrate our Christmas without having to think of other types of celebration around the same time".
Also Americans: telling everyone to have a happy thanksgiving all over the internet.
Especially to indigenous people on the internet, as if the holiday isn't a colonialist concept itself and is just a glorification of the massacre of the Nauset Pequot and Mashpee Wampanoag people. There's a reason why it's regarded as a National Day of Mourning to indigenous people, just like there's a remembrance day for the Holocaust. America isn't the only country in the world and not all countries celebrate the mass dying from settler-brought diseases and genocide against indigenous people masqueraded as a "wholesome" holiday to celebrate with family
Honestly, all of this "War on Christmas" shit would make a great Christmas movie about a Conservative discovering the true meaning of Christmas.
Call up Hallmark with this idea
That’s the Grinch
Lmao nice
@@oreohunter7798 They could call the movie "The Cringe"
hopefully they would discover the joy of su!cide instead 🤣
So let me get this straight... The same people who says "its not a big deal" to misgender people and use the wrong pronouns on purpose to be indecent, are the same who say "it IS a big deal" to not say Merry Christmas cause it hurts their feelings and "destroys" their religion...
Pronouns are giving not decided by the person lol
@@bannedvideos3399 🤡
@@bannedvideos3399 I really wish I had the energy to argue with you but I've had this argument so many times that I can't bother to fail at convincing a brick wall of something
Yeah, these are the same people. Only what they believe matters, and these idiots believe that all trans people are p3dophiles but that the left is trying to destroy christmas, y'know, cuz that makes sense and is definitely the truth. It's sad.
@@bannedvideos3399 but what do they give 🤔
As a Jewish person, I sure do love reading my bible and celebrating my christmases! Yessiree, I see Christmas as a holiday important to my religion, a religion partially defined by how we don’t think Jesus was the messiah. Yep, these guys obviously recognize how deeply hurt Jewish people are by Christmas being less prevalent, and it has NOTHING to do with how saying Jewish people are part of the groups that want to replace their culture makes it sound EVEN MORE similar to an infamous theory they totally DONT invoke for profit.
when i worked retail, a lady once complained to me at the register that someone had supposedly told her "happy holidays" at the walmart earlier. she went, "why not 'merry christmas'?"
i said, "they probably wanted you to have a happy new year, too." christmas is a quixotic hell in retail, so i was exhausted and i think my brain broke. unprompted, i suddenly sang, "and a happy new year. good tidings we bring..." then i stopped, because i forgot the rest of the words.
the woman appeared to be buffering for the rest of the transaction. she responded to my prompts ("do you have a rewards card?" etc) but didn't really speak until after she had paid. then she narrowed her eyes and looked directly at my face. she said very unmerrily, "merry christmas."
and i smiled and said, "oh, thank you so much! you as well!"
sometimes i still think about her face. and about how i got my very first traffic ticket driving home that night.
Reeeeeaaallly confuses those rightys when you remind them there are other holidays in there that even they acknowledge or celebrate.
Glad u made it back safely. Seen some people get hurt because they're tired after work and lost focus
As a leftist, why would I want to destroy Christmas, aka the longest holiday I ever get?
I feel so lucky to have Chanuka and Pesach, that both last 8 days
You gotta come to Brasil, we have the longest holidays ever and, depending on where you live, you may get a combo of holidays
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As a normal person, why would you make it about you?
@BlightWorxx as a borderline sociopathic madman with homicidal/suicidal tendencies, they weren't. They were making a basic joke about how Christmas gives them time off, and that means it should stay. also "normal person" is bulls**t, and why are you even on hbomberguys channel? He's left-wing, evidently unlike you.
Ngl, the priest is a chad for concerning about their religion being used as marketing instead of not enough christian
And the Fox presenters are like deer in the headlights, like they clearly didn't expect him to say any of that, so they stick to the script and say "That's a good point! Anyway, here's a list of companies that don't include enough Christian symbology enough in their advertising."
The irony is the entire Christ story is an analog of stolen ancient astrological findings. That is why the rebirth myth is pervasive to many religions. Christianity basically rebranded paganism and codified capitalism with religious dogma. LOL
Oh how the tables have turned.
@@seanwarren9357 And yet the Bible itself -- and their messiah in general -- is pretty anti-capitalist, definitely anti-aristocracy 😆
@@sluttyMapleSyrup Outwardly only, I would argue. That said, the money changers were not representative of jesus' feelings on capitalism in general, but rather usury and what it has become, the stock markets and financialization (speculative trading and the profiteering of it while contributing nothing to the actual markets). That's not to say he was real or anything, but the ideas put forth by the author's and editors and their analogous protagonists that serve to codify and enter their approved values into social constructs, surely warned at the risk of such economic mechanisms.
That said, it was an archaic time and if they really anticipated where we are to day, it must have only been roughly envisioned as an analog to the Pharos, much in the way that our modern billionaires are the counterpart to entities and powerful organizations such as they had at the time...
As for aristocracy, what is the structural design of churches and the holy Trinity itself if not an architectural prototype of a monastic subversive counter to monarchist structures that dominated the social paradigm if the social organizations that formed post agricultural revolution?
@@seanwarren9357 I mean, I doubt they had a word for "capitalism" at the time, but his general philosophy of, "You cannot find enlightenment while burdened down by material possessions and money" is pretty antithetical to capitalism and consumerism. Using the lens of their time as best I can, they'd probably view corporations and the like as hidden dukes/barons; they control large amounts of people, have a sizeable amount of "land" (just oriented vertically or scattered across the planet in tiny boxes), are a primary source of income and facilitation of modern life, and exist within other "kingdoms" (nations)...
Last paragraph: I think I'm following what you're saying, but there are too many technical terms back-to-back-to-back to where I can't even formulate a response because you've just overloaded my brain with sociological jargon 😆
Love how they are happy to say "Yuletide", which is a pagan holiday.
Those gosh darned pagans! Am I right
As a raging militant atheist, when december starts and people wish me a Merry Christmas... I smile and wish them a Merry Christmas back. It's the right thing to do. 2000 years ago this cool hippie philosopher tried to tell people life would be better if they would just be a bit nicer to eachother and then got killed for it. Even if I don't believe this cool chap existed, the fact remains it's a nice story with a good message. The only thing that enrages me about the Christmas period is Mariah Carey's godawful Christmas song being played on the radio. every. fucking. hour. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, and Happy Holidays as well.
Did you mean that you don’t believe Jesus was the son of God?? Cause he was a real person that existed… I understand not believing in God or that he was the son of God, but like he still existed just like you and me are existing.
@@jollymastermind1237You would be surprised how little evidence there actually is for the singular person described within the bible to be Jesus.
Exactly this. Obviously I do not believe in a son of God, since I don't believe gods exist. There were mentions by historians of people like Jesus but no proof the Jesus of the bible actually existed. But that said, I have no problems with people believing he was real and was who his followers claim he is.
I mean Mariah Cary is eternally memed upon
Awful take all I want for Christmas for you is a FUCKING BOP
I agree with the rest tho
"As a white Christian I find the term "Christmas Cracker" quite insulting." Paul Joseph Watson 2024
Christmas Crack, though, sounds quite fine.
@@tfwthelsdkicksin6083 not at all, lol
@@AliceLoverdrive back to the pagan roots of saturnalia we go, this time with _crack :)_
lmaoooo
Hi I'm from 2024 and the only reason no one's mentioned him being that big of a punchline is because he's completely irrelevant now
Two Hbomberguy videos in a week? What is this, Christm- wait a minute
oh god, WE'RE CRACKING THE CODE
*X-Files theme intensifies*
"What is this, my birthday? … did I just imply I'm Christ-"
I think we mean Holida-
Can we still the “ribbed-for-her-pleasure coffee machines?” You said it was Christmas.
"Jesus - He came for you" uh huh, he sure did. Just last night to be exact
I mean it should be obvious but "Happy Holidays" also includes an implied "Happy New Year", so it's appropriate to say to people who you will not see from Christmas to New Years, such as your coworkers and casual acquaintances
You don't see your coworkers on Christmas and New Year's? What's it like not being a hospitality slave?
"Its a war on christmas!"
Every single retail worker that has to listen to christmas carols non-stop for 2+ months: *"Fuckin' wish it was."*
I worked in a kitchen back in 2017 and I'm so glad because we got to blast alt rock 24/7 instead of the Christmas garbage that the rest of the place played.
SIMPLY
HAVING A
WONDERFUL
CHRISTMASTIIIIME
AND NOT EVEN GOOD "CHRISTMAS MUSIC" LIKE THE TRANSIBERIAN ORCESTRA AND MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER.
BUT EVERY HORRIBLE COVER OF SANTA BABY AND LAST CHRISTMAS (the only valid versions are Eartha Kitt and WHAM!)
I worked in retail every Christmas from the age of 15 (I lied about my age to get the job) and 24. I'd be on the front fucking lines for a war on Christmas and I'd bayonet Mariah Carey between the eyes
*Mariah Carey intensifies*
you say all of this, but my friend's mom said "merry christmas" one time and they took her away
My friends mum won’t let us play bible blaster :(
This happened to my uncle one night. One too many drinks and a "merry Christmas" slipped out. I never saw him again 😔
Those gosh darned Communist Socialist System of Islam's ANTIFA Super Soldiers.
d...daddy?
Your friends mom wasn't very big money.
After winning their respective wars, Christmas and Drugs will now go to war with each other.
I absolutely love that the entire "Attack on Christmas" panic is completely shatttered by just remembering how many Christians straight up travel to another country just to see _Chinese New Year._ It's as if people like to party and watch fireworks, no matter what it's called
I remember the opening of 1984 when Orwell, in an attempt to establish the dystopian setting had the main character walk into his local Tesco to find that Christmas wad written nowhere in the store
thats the most annoying thing, when people try to reference 1984 as something that is equivalent to the way modern society is... like... i feel like most of them didnt even read 1984... or if they did they entirely missed the fucking point of it lmfao
and by that i mean when u see a video talking about mask / vax mandates and there are hundreds of comments saying "THIS IS THE FUTURE ORWELL WARNED US ABOUT" or "1984 IS HERE" without realizing that they have literally made this comment on their internet connected device... like bro if u have a phone the listening post is already on ur person at all times... they already gotchu boomers and u dont even realize it
@@kg7219 yes. I hear this all the time and the worst part is that a right wing version"1984" is possible to. Like people think it was a warning against leftism according to them. But think about it. Instead of "big brother is watching you" it would be something like "God is watching you". The message is about obedience not "radical Marxism". I think a version of insoc could exist in both the left and right. I've noticed they use God to throw out criticism. I've seen people like prageru qeustion the first amendment for allowing other religions to exist in the county and by qeustioning the legimacy of the first amendment. He's also the same guy that made the infamous quote of "if you value your life, obey". Let that sink in.
@@kg7219 also that point.🤣🤣 these middle aged fool complain about there free speech being taken away while USING free speech.
Poor guy must be rolling in his grave.
As a leftist and a secularist, I'm outraged that I didn't get the memo about our plans to destroy Christmas.
I know! I also never got that retainer payment check from George Soros and my Freemason pin.
I had all these secularist trash bags for the christmas crackers and I wasn’t even invited!
@@liannsmith7317 is that a metaphor?
As a gay, I am also offended that I was not told about our plans of world domination with Lil Nas X's Gay Ray!
@@lillianglove1350 you'd know if you read this months gay agenda
there was never a real war on christmas, but there's always been a war on halloween. this year i saw christmas decorations in stores as early as MID OCTOBER
right??? HORRIBLE
You know, I just realized something. It’s a bit grim to have crosses out on Christmas, isn’t it? “Happy birthday Jesus, to celebrate here’s the instrument of your demise.” Thinking about it, my church never really had more than the usual amount of crosses for Christmas. Focus was on wreaths and candles.
Yeah, I've never understood using a medieval torturing device as the symbol for your patron. The rock rolled away from his tomb would frankly make more sense. Or the crown of thorns, even. Though I guess using a symbol of torture does lean into the far-right kink of persecution and martyrdom.
@@OdinsSage Fun fact: I've seen some Christians use the icthus (I call it the Jesus Fish). The reason it's a fish is that the first letters of the Greek translation of the phrase "Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior" spell out 'icthus,' which is the Greek word for fish. However, I haven't seen anyone try to replace the cross with the icthus.
"You're not inclusive. You're hurtful."
Oh, so NOW we have to care about the feelings of a particular group? CURIOUS.
yea but only when it comes to made up bullshit. caring about real things is leftist Marxism however
Feelings are only important when they are MY feelings and not the ones of a minority
To be fair, I think he said that as a way of getting in a little dig at people who are willing to share their emotions instead of bottling them up until they become school shooters, but yeah.
@@screamsintothevoid9968 UNLESS I am in a minority, which I definitely am, 100%
if you want others to care about yours, yes.
"judeo-christian values and traditions are important"
"ok, let's start saying happy hollidays so we also include hanukkah"
"NO-"
To be fair, as a Jew, I am vaguely annoyed at the people who demonstrate their wokeness by remembering that Chanuka exists (only because it's next to Christmas) and they're all HAPPY HOLIDAYS but don't actually pay attention to Jews' important holidays, or care about Jews struggling not to use up all their vacation days just so they can celebrate their holidays
@@k2ggers961 welp I didn't think we'd reach holocaust denialism 3 replies into a comment chain and yet here we are unfortunately
@@StardustLegend went from 0 to 100 real quick
What about making it "Abrahamic values" and celebrating "eid al adha" and "Eid al ftr"? (Muslim fests)
@@k2ggers961 oh boy
I just noticed that Hbomberguy pronounces the "t" in Christmas. I've lived in the US basically my entire life, and at least for where I've lived, the t has always been silent.
I guess British people just really can't do without their T.
Hbomberguy is of course known for his high T!
@@ClaudiaNWoh yeah, people with high T are known to be lispy and limp-wristed
@@NeonKnight707 People with high T are known to go bald by their 30s, which hbomb has done (having foreshadowed it by telling us in the Soy Boys video that he had high T).
Also I wouldn't describe him as "limp wristed" or "lispy", but I suppose I should expect a certain amount of gratuitous homophobia from someone called "Thunder-Cock". (Who I doubt actually watched the video. Notably, one of the passages James Somerton stole was about how camp illustrates that gender roles are superficial, a matter of style!)
Ba dum tsss
I like the implication that these people genuinely believe they would have no moral compass without religion
Can we talk for a minute about how disingenuous the phrase "Judeo-Christian" is when talking about the war on Christmas? Since Jews, pretty famously, aren't the ones fighting to keep Christ in Christmas.
Basically it's so Bill can say Christian without being Shoah'd by the company. It's a common trope but it's always been an oxymoron.
Also pretty pointedly excludes Muslims.
Well, Dennis Prager is Jewish, it's not about christianity though, it's about making money off oil barons
As a jewish person, every time conservatives say judeo-christian values I'm just like:
"Don't...
Lump me in with you."
Oh don't worry about that. They don't actually like Jewish people
Everyone’s got plenty of time for one Pathologic and half a RWBY before we get started
Edit: He really wasn’t lying all those years ago when he talked about his testosterone, we’re about two videos away from him looking like Kratos
Also first and if anyone else claims it they’re on the naughty list
@@harveyholmes9533 no u
@@darien9487 can’t argue with that
I think I’ll watch new vegas again
Already watched the Pathologic one today and I'll DO IT AGAIN
Honestly, I respect the priest for his statement on commercialism in Christmas, then sticking to it when Fox tried to derail him. Pretty based.
All I can think about this year is that somewhere in Harry's home is a pile of 'Naughty Elves' he bought for one shot.
Excuse me, three shots
I love how people would complain about "the sjws", "political correct people", snowflakes, participation trophy generation, cancel culture and censorship in one breath, and then moan about someone saying "happy holidays".
"And that's what these darned sensitive snowflakes are all about..."
"Anyway back to my list of people who didn't call them Christmas crackers"
Lets start calling them cjws, Christian Justice Warriors, or in this case, Christmas Justice Warriors
It’s all the same people. That’s the thing you start to realize about these sides is they’re basically the same. I mean if you want a room full of uptight Christian conservatives and liberal gender studies majors to agree on something tell them Videogames are bad. They’ll say different things, one will talk about how it corrupts the youth and violence and the other will spout about ist and phobias but they both reach the same conclusion
@@creed8712 no liberal gender studies major says "Bideo gaem bad" you Muppet. They're asking people to make better games by including more characters that non-white people can see themselves as, to not fall into empty stereotypes, or they're saying that this was a trend and this is the reason why. Go read an actual paper.
@@creed8712 You know there are many Liberals and Communist that actually play videogame. The fact that you mention game in a video unrelated to game show the fact that you are a Hardcore Gamergater. BTW being Incel is not cool.
i'm an american muslim who celebrates christmas in the secular, festive "give gifts, eat food" kind of way. try being anything but a christian in this country and then tell me how "under attack" christanity is. my parents raised us muslim and yet my sister and i know more about christianity and christian mythology because literally 70% of this country is christian and you tend to pick it up in everyday life. christianity, christmas, etc. is going absolutely nowhere. and that's actually an oddly comforting thing after this horrible year. happy holidays, everyone.
word.
The biggest tip I ever got back when I busked in Boston was from a woman wearing a hijab. It was around the holidays so I was only playing Christmas tunes. Who gives a busker $20? I talked to my Muslim aunt about it and she was not in the least bit surprised. She's from Pakistan and both her and her family love Christmas despite being observant Muslims. I was raised Catholic but I'm not a particularly religious adult and I love it, too, so it makes sense. It's just a fun thing to do, and what's wrong with that? If it means something to your religion fine, celebrate it the way you want, no one's saying you can't, but don't take a dump on the rest of us who want to enjoy it, too, and celebrate it the way we want to.
EEeeEeEEvvvViIiLlL
Massive respect for recognising that sometimes we all need to return to the status quo, even if the "normal" state of things doesn't necessarily align with your beliefs. Sometimes all we need is a half-decent reason to not be shitty towards each other, and personally I don't really care if it's called "Christmas" or "Ramadan" or "Hannukah" or whatever.
Happy holidays! 😉
Christmas is a pagan holiday that the church adopted to make Christian cause they couldn't convince people to pray for Jesus.
as an athiest whenever everyone says merry christmas i turn green and my heart shrinks and i steal lots of presents and i put it in a big sack and then my dog drives me away in a flying sleigh
I'm always deeply amused that Fox chose Father Martin as their guest. They obviously don't do any research or they would have known he wouldn't parrot their talking points
I also think its somewhat disturbing that these grifters will constantly say "Judeo-Christian" or "Christians and Jews" whenever they are making their points, even when the things they're saying only applies to Christians. They're playing the "I can't be antisemitic because I'm constantly including Jewish people" argument.
Absolutely. These same people will say “oh my god what are they off for now?” when kids have off for a Jewish holiday.
@Michael Goldstein man that hits a little too close to home. Grade school and middle school were a rough time
@@alicethemad1613 not even just then. I have had non-Jewish physicians say that Jewish doctors who don’t want to work on the sabbath are just trying to get out of work, meanwhile they are extremely supportive of Christian or Muslim doctors wanting off for the same number of days. But the Jews who push back on that are just “overreacting” and need to chill. It happens everywhere, even among educated people.
I'm Jewish and I am like why are you dragging us into this
And then they use "cultural Marxist" as a term, which literally comes from Nazis
"I've lost enough IQ points that I think IQ is real" may well be the best HBG line ever.
@@miccharacter.coomiebully6707 how so
@@miccharacter.coomiebully6707 Oh, my, you didn't get it, did you?
i don't think denying iq exists as one tool demeans nor empowers anybody. You can not care about it and still not say it doesn't exist
@@MsZsc IQ is largely useless as a tool. About the only thing it's good for is testing your ability to take tests. It gives racist, sexist, ageist, ethnocentric, urbanist, and anti-neurodivergent results, and your score can be affected by a good 40 points by missing your morning coffee. To call IQ a tool is like calling a ¼" breaker bar a tool: under _very_ specific circumstances, it can be not only very useful, but exactly what you need; the rest of the time it's a novelty item that got sold to you as a tool.
EDIT: Um... It looks like the comment I was responding to ceased to be by the time I responded? Eh, I'll leave this up in case anyone else is confused.
@tildessmoo IQ is cool because I get to brag lol
By getting mad at "Happy Holidays," saying it isn't including Christmas, they are basically stating they don't think Christmas is a "holy day."
Getting my friend to watch the hbomberguy political videos so he'll respect hbomberguy enough as an authority source so I can moffatpill him with the Sherlock video
this is the opposite of how it usually goes
@@hbomberguy I have a lot of people in my life who hold leftist political views but also think Sherlock is great and moffat is an all time great show runner
@@henryam503 this is actually how it went for me lmoa I used to love Sherlock and had since lost interest in it but still thought it was good. and then i found hbomb from his political videos and /then/ watched the sherlock video. and yeah.
@@henryam503 you are based
@@hbomberguy oh my god he knows
I’m sorry but seeing Alex Jones screaming “Merry Christmas” at the top of his lungs while concerned passerbys just slowly shuffle away from him is definitely a highlight of my 2020.
The highlight of my 2020 was seeing Hbomber transform into Caddicarus from 2016
No one is going to get that refrence.
@@illbill5904
Well I’m fairness most youtube game reviewers from 2012-2016 were really big on beards haha.
Old Man Yells at Tree 🗣️
Americans be like: "This really brings me into the spirit of the season... meth addicts screaming about Jesus..."
The only thing that would have made it better is if some oblivious stranger just walked by and was like "Happy Holidays to you too!"
As well as White Christmas being written for a movie literally called Holiday Inn, it was written for Berlin’s son who passed away on Christmas Day. The fact that it is called White Christmas makes perfect since when you put those two things together, that it was written for a movie set partially during Christmas and to mourn his son who died on Christmas Day. Truly mind boggling things happening over at PragerU.
I live in Uruguay. A lot of people here call Christmas "Family Day". We've successfully taken the Christ out of Christmas
"there´s a war on christmas" he said, while clowning around in front of a HUGE christmas tree in the TOWN CENTER paid for by tax payers
Also screaming about how he won't be silenced... as nobody is even remotely trying.
That said, it would have been funny as shit if a bunch of cops dressed in over-the-top-80's-movie-badguy-uniforms were to come out from nowhere and he had to run for his life.
I love how conservatives whine about how during pride everyone "panders to the gays" then cry that an ad doesn't have enough Christian iconography in it.
Something something “rules for thee but not for me”
That's a weird thing to love.
@@hindigenteirony is a very common thing to love; it's the backbone of modern internet humor
I know, I know, @@corbeaudejugement. I was just being cheeky because I find this "I love " phrasing itself sort of weird (not good, nor bad, just weird).
But as someone who doesn't always get irony, thanks for the heads up anyway,@@corbeaudejugement.
One time someone told me merry Christmas and without thinking, I said merry Christmas back. We’re both in the gulag now, but he’s my jailhouse lover and gets people to give us cigarettes for a round with my bum, so it’s going well.
I hope you two are very happy with each other >v
Real talk, the only reason I don't like hearing people say "Merry Christmas" is because I live in an area FULL of right-wingers that believe this kind of thing to a scary degree. And it makes me afraid some of them would actually try to attack me, most likely verbally but possibly physically, if I say "Happy Holidays" instead.
"remember when they made us stop saying the n-word" is probably not the good argument you think it is, Alex
"first they came for the n-word...."
0.o
"...of course, *I* don't say the n-word."
@@k.morningstar7983 .........any more......?
@@christopherseton-smith7404 No, in public.
It is for his audience.
There seem to be surprisingly many people who still think it is about censorship and about not being allowed to call a spade a spade.
They also complain about how minorities get to use slurs, but they don't because they are being oppressed.
@@davidwuhrer6704 it has nothing to do with oppression for us but rather that we believe words shouldn’t be excluded from the dictionary for emotions sake
Angrily shouting "MERRY CHRISTMAS" at passers by while completely ignoring all the love and compassion the holiday's supposed to represent is about as 'merican as one can get.
Yeah for some reason the modern right concluded freedom means "be a rude twat to everyone".
it's like they don't know what "merry" means.
HAPPY ANGRYMAS!
@@devononair MERRY PISSEDMAS
@@ghaizann8960 haha
I’ve actually kinda recognised the opposite problem. Stores near me (aside from a few places like home goods) have a very slim selection of Hanukkah or even just non secular wrapping paper. And I live in a relatively progressive area. Obviously the war on Christmas isn’t so much of a war if every store I go to has piles upon piles of Christmas merchandise and maybe 1 Hanukkah item
They're just hiding the real truth. Tommy invented Christmas, but for a different universe, and didnt realise Christmas had been illegally sold to our universe on a Religion Sample Pack CD.
This made me laugh out loud in front of my family and now they think I’ve lost my mind
A shit, it turns out Joey invented it. we've been lied to this whole time.
@@Ringothetankengine-qy1vl it always is Joey! Tommy's mother is proud of tom- Joey
"The communist Socialist System of Islam" is the most wrong and nonsensical sentence i ever heard, and i LOVE it!
Edit: Happy Hollydays you Soyboys! I hope y'all survived 2020's hangover
Jihad on Christmas.
I have nothing witty to say about this. It is just beautiful
Do you think they believe "Muslim" is just another word for "people I hate?"
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 it’s a blanket term used for anything from the Middle East area of planet earth. Doesn’t matter if that’s where they are from or even what they believe. It’s just “MUSLIM” because we need a scapegoat to help us ignore the underlying fact that most of America is about to implode on itself if actually work to fix it doesn’t start soon.
@@skeetsmcgrew3282 i mean communism is just a word for "thing i dont like" in america. this one lady held a sign that said "integration is communism!" when segregation was around lmao
"First they came for the n-word users and I did not speak out, because I don't use the n-word. Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me." - Alex Jones
Fantastic quote mashup, well done.
@Gaius Octavius nah, Alex Jones seems more like the guy to hide his racism in thin veils
Like an old grandpa type racism but a bit more intense and active
@Gaius Octavius okay in that case he definitively doesn’t use the N word, if he is unable to hide it if he used it. Good!
@@schimpansarvagn436 CZcams has P0rn-issues; did you knew?
It also does have a reportbutton; did you knew?
You can combine both facts if you know.
I saw this comment before i saw the clip and hooo boy was i suprised to find out it was real
I work retail. Whenever someone tells me "Merry Christmas" I respond with "Happy holidays" since I celebrate Yule.
12:57 “Oh no, my crosses are burning” went over my head for almost three full years somehow
The more I watch this the more I think the right thinks the left is secretly run by the grinch
lmao
good comment 10/10
"How The Leftists Stole -Christmas-
Holidays"
The root of it is insecurity from a perceived threat. Since White Conservatives Christians have held all the power until relatively recently, they don't see inclusive policies as uplifting the oppressed, but see it as oppression on them.
shh don't reveal everything
"I've lost enough IQ points to think IQ is real"
Masterpiece
It doesn't bode well for me that I didn't learn how IQ was debunked as a form of measuring intelligence until this video that I only found like a month ago
@@Sonichero151 I get that american racists have effed up the notion of IQ in the people's mind with those dumb maps (the maps should be monochromatic because iq is based on the distribution of results in a given culture, language, social group AND age group so you can't compare groups) but IQ is still a very useful tool for finding outliers and accomodating them (the gifted and intellectually disabled) in the school system (which is what IQ is for in the first place). And we still haven't found a better way to find them
Basically IQ for individuals isn't debunked (because it's the best tool we have to find outliers now), IQ for groups (the one racists use) is obviously debunked because it relied on using the tests completely wrong
@@Sonichero151 ye me too apparantly
@@boazshalit1579 After literally 10 Years,
we still have this 'Boob Groping as s-ual Entertainment' from and for Idiots
on CZcams... man, cant no one report or flag that stuff?
I was arguing with a jabroni on Facebook and he had the audacity to say " I don't debate with anyone with an iq under 200". My butthole almost prolapsed from the shock.
Republicans get their balls in a twist about "the war on christmas" and act like Christianity is being wiped out as if Christmas has had anything to do with religion in that past 30 years. where were these people when Christmas started to get extremely commercialized?
They were the ones commercializing it.
One of the most played old timey Christmas songs is literally "Happy Holidays" sung by Bing Freaking Crosby, from back when America was apparently great. We've said it since I was born over 50 years ago. Probably because, fun fact, Christmas and New Year's day are a week apart every year, and it's quicker than saying "Have a Merry Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" every time.
As a Christian the only thing ruining Christmas is capitalism
based 👍🏿
I'm not Christian but I think that this post is right.
Damn straight
I would add sentimentality and superficiality to the list.People get caught up in decoration, food, the a e s t h e t i c... Just say you're celebrating Yule, or whatever pagan tradition all of the above originated from.
I am Atheist and I hate the Commerciality that has crept into Christmas when these People mention the war on Christmas do they mean the we should get Back to the real meaning of Christmas Celebration of the Birth of Christ let's face it the Christian why don't People Propose that and see how how Much PragueU is onboard with that
As someone who works in shopping malls, I WISH the War on Christmas was real and I don't have to listen to the same handful of Christmas songs every single day!
The war is real - it's just Christmas is the aggressor, has been winning and has already annexed several chunks of Thanksgiving and Halloween.
@@genesisera8364 Army headed by Mariah Carey and her second in command, Elf on the Shelf.
i dearly hope for you sanity
One of my friends has a competition with their family to see who can last longest without hearing last Christmas by wham. So you could make a game out of it if you want.
@@HiBuddyyyyyy I'll lose that game within a week.
This video is how I learned that christmas crackers aren’t like, Christmas themed saltines or whatever
The Funko Pop being voiced by Civvie 11 gave me whiplash.
how come no one is even talking about this
"Ribbed for her pleasure coffee machine"
Like conservatives would care about her pleasure in any sense
Hahahahahahahaha
Seriously...
I thought all the conservatives smashed their coffee machines after “the incident”
"What do you mean, you don't want to be a baby factory? Oh shit oh fuck; TEXAS, GO HUNT DOWN THEIR ASSES"
They DO care... but in the other way. Women taking pleasure from sex is sinful or something.
I was confused by the rapid uploads for a moment, then I remembered your promise, last year, to release this video on Christmas.
Never thought I'd see you here!
Happy to see you're an hbomberguy fan.
Glad to see you here
Time for a collab baby
Kings and generals and now MB on an hbomb video? All my niche interests are converging holy shit
Guys, I'm commenting this from the year 2345.
Take this war on Christmas seriously. In the year 2269 they made it mandatory for us to say "Have a Black Lives Matter Pansexual Holiday that spits on the lord". This is serious!
yesterday i ate a red white and blue cookie that said patriotic cookies instead of 4th of july cookies and i promptly shat on the floor of the walmart i bought it in
What's more, the Wal-Mart was in Canada.
"Jews believe in the Bible"
politely begging your entire pardon, dennis?
Kinda, sorta, partially... since Christianity is an offspring of Judaism, it overlaps when it comes to the Old Testament. And since Islam is also an abrahamitic religion, Jesus is - what was it, I forgot, a prophet or a saint? -
EDIT: If you have a dark sense of humor, it's almost funny that members of the basically same religion kept and still keep killing each other over slight alterations to their doctrine.
would like to clarify that we don't read the "bible" but the torah
christians basically don't care much about the torah, ideologically speaking, except for the homophobic parts, so the cultural overlap is pretty much nil
i do find i relate to muslims way more than christians though
@Jason Weaver Let's not start yet another crusade, please. I'm all out of Jerusalems to "retake"
@@mootroidXproductions That's a fair point. I was raised roman-catholic, but by now I'm an agnostic theist. Can't say I cared much about how God is described in the Old Testament. He was mean and vengeful. This might very well be tinkering on the part of the people who put the Bible together.
@Jason Weaver I would think that his teachings would be more of a cornerstone of the faith than the circumstances of his birth, from a practical standpoint. Which would be the same regardless of if he were divine or a prophet.
But then again, the people who scream most loudly about Jesus don't tend to think very highly of his actual teachings...