Kinda Creepy FR Christmas Post

[K8-EEE]

LOL, am I the only one a bit spooked by this Xmas greeting in German on FR, complete with a nativity scene where baby Jesus every person and angel in it is depicted as uber-blond (newsflash Freepers: this whole thing took place in the Middle East FYI!) Kinda Nazi-esque, just sayin....and nobody in the "English only" freeper crowd seems to mind a bilingual greeting as long as the other language is German!

Wassup with people approaching the manger, they look like they are decked out in Alpine gear or something!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758242/posts

[wickerwoman]

1. "Lift thine ass-colts from the mire"

Truer words were never posted at FR.

And is that Gandalf the Grey come to praise the baby Jesus?

[Kindigger]

3. Gandalf and

"the little Hummel boy" LOL

[K8-EEE]

5. HAHAHAHA!

Little Hummel Boy---good one. Pa rum pum pum pum and I know NUTHINK!

[liberaldemocrat7]

24. Send Aryan and Scandinavian conservatives and Republicans back to Eurupppp !!

Send Grover Norquist and Frank Luntz first ! Let the freepers follow !

Oh and very ironic the first greeting appears in FRENCH, which they appear to hate. I want to remind freepers that the French you so hate has a conservative president and a conservative led assembly.

But they appear to want to blame Liberals for the French conservative government for some reason. That shows you freeper logic. LOL.

[tinfoil tiaras]

29. Yeah, where did all that "I hate France" shit go?

:rofl:

[K8-EEE]

4. Leisel, Bergita and Gretel From Sound of Music

Seem to be doing the Maggi thing in the FR version....

[rpannier]

2. Obviously you are one of those whacked out Christmas hating anti-Christians

who believe Jesus was Jewish and not of Aryan blood.

on a serious note: It's the freak republikkanners. It's the main website for the Aryan brotherhood and the inbreed society of America.

[Skittles]

6. yes, it is creepy

and sad that freeper bastards don't see their own creepiness

[K8-EEE]

8. Here's a way creepier post!!!

On another thread:

"Alright..... after seeing the first fifteen minutes of FoxNews Sunday ............. here is my Christmas message to all you Freepers who are on FreeRepublic for what I suppose is the same reason I am here.

Lynne Cheney should definitely be the next President of the United States of America.

This woman, without a pause at all, looks anyone asking her a question directly in the eyes and tells the beautiful truth without hesitation.

This woman is the best candidate the Republicans could place up for the Presidency in 2008.

This lovely, decent and honorably honest woman is the BEST spokesman for conservatism. There is no one better. She is a gem of a human being and a brilliantly intelligent spokesman of conservatism and the truth!"

Holy shit, what are they smoking over there?

[Skittles]

11. not sure if I have ever met a real live actual Freeper

but have you ever talked to any FOX NEWS fans? The stupidity, the mindless repeating of such obvious propaganda - I kid you not, it will blow your mind

[Toots]

17. The best they have to offer

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Bluebear]

7. Nothing says Christmas like lifting your ass-colt from the mire.

:crazy:

[K8-EEE]

9. May your days be merry and bright

and may all your ass-colts be lifted from the mire!

[proud2BlibKansan]

10. And what language is this?

Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru Dua Ribu Tujuh! Tuhan berkati sepangjang tahun depan.

[K8-EEE]

12. Indonesian?

WTF with the Indonesian freeper, that's so random...

[China_cat]

13. Merpy Whatever

My counter to the religious freeper:

[Crunchy Frog]

20. Love it!

:applause:
I think I'll save that graphic for next Christmas.

[mainer]

14. And Santa Claus was born in Turkey!

I get a kick out of pointing out to Euro-centric Christians that St. Nicholas, the Bishop of Myra, was born in what is now modern Turkey. So he probably wasn't some fat German-looking guy with blue eyes.

[onethatcares]

15. but you are missing the entire

"white christmas" angle.

[sandnsea]

16. We can't dispense with this one day a year??

It was lovely, especially because it's at FR. It's a traditional ethnic scene, with Merry Christmas in several languages, which I would think should be encouraged. The Christmas tradition comes from Europe, after all.

[Hav]

18. .

Agreed. Even if one disagrees with the picture, there is nothing creepy in wishing a Merry Christmas in different languages one might know.

[JVS]

19. Hey, they said feliz navidad too. I thought they wanted English only

[Crunchy Frog]

21. Nordic Jesus. LOL!

[Taverner]

22. In the last years of Nazi Germany

Many Christian traditions had been Aryanized...that is turned so that all roads led back to Berlin.

The Parsifal myth and Christ had been melded together, so that Jesus and Parsifal were one and the same.

Nazareth was changed to Austria

Bibles hadn't been rewritten, but there were plans to come up with a German Aryanized Bible.

Ironic, since the Christians and Catholics were the first to jump on the Nazi bandwagon.

[knitter4democracy]

23. Not much makes me madder than a white Jesus.

Seriously--Jesus, Mary, Joseph--none of them was white. There is a reason why in the older icons of the Church, Jesus is dark-skinned. That's because that's what his skin color was. I searched last year for a creche that wasn't full of white people, even though we're Eastern Orthodox and don't do creches (I got it for the kids for them to learn the story better), and I couldn't find one. I even went to Bronner's in Frankenmuth, searched the entire section, and all I could find were super-white saints or coal-black saints (neither of which are authentic, though the darker skin tones are closer to the truth). I gave up this year and got a Playmobile set. I also made sure the kids knew the skin color wasn't right.

Gah! Why do they keep trying to make Jesus white?!

[citizen snips]

25. the Nazis use to love music.

nuff said.

[Posteritatis]

27. Guilt by association FTW! (n/t)

[Posteritatis]

26. Meh. Doesn't bother me

It looks like a scan of a fairly old/traditional image that's likely rather older than I am. That, and Christmas is a big deal with Germany (which isn't synonymous with Nazi Germany, which kind of committed suttee on Hitler's pyre awhile back), etc. I'm entirely unbothered by it, and yes, I know Christ was most likely Semitic.

I know, I know, absolutely everything said on that site has to be parsed through the Evil Filter, but I kind of think you're reaching to get offended at this one. (If you wanted to get offended, the "Kwaanza Kleenex" post later in that thread would do just fine.)

[undeterred]

28. Shepherds would never be out all night with their flocks in December

in Bethlem. Too cold... unless you have a fancy jacket.

[badgerpup]

30. I saw a kid's drawing which kinda bothered me at the time..

Our concert choir was singing European Christmas carols and schoolchildren's Christmas drawings were being projected behind us.

One of them was a manger scene...with an American flag flying from the stable.