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Every. Single. Other. Kids. Show. From. The. 90s. And. Before. Has. An. Overtly. Christian. Christmas. Special. But Rugrats doesn't, it must be a conspiracy! It must be war on Christian values! It must be indoctrination of the poor Christian children. Oh God, won't somebody please think of the children!
Growing up Jewish in the American southeast, Rugrats was literally all I had. Sometimes Christians can just get fucked.
Growing up Jewish in the American southeast, Rugrats was literally all I had. Sometimes Christians can just get fucked.
imagine growing up entirely unaffiliated with anyone's imaginary friends.... in places like louisiana and alabama.
'which church do you go to?'
none
'no, honey, where do you go on sunday mornings?'
the kitchen, for cereal.
'oh lord you must worship the devil himself'
lady, if I don't believe in your imaginary friend why would I believe in his imaginary enemy?
Don't have to imagine lol Judaism is my heritage and culture but it's never been my religion. Not since my family was thrown out of a synagogue for insisting on Palestinian's rights when I was young. It is scary, being told you don't have any morals because you don't believe in eternal damnation. Sort of makes you grateful that person does believe in hell if it's the only thing keeping him in line. It's like the old Ricky Gervais bit: "If you don't believe there is a God to answer to why don't you go round raping & murdering as much as you want?" "I do, as much as I want, which is not at all."
It is scary, being told you don’t have any morals because you don’t believe in eternal damnation.
yeah there seems to be a consistent thing in nutbag adults that they love to scare children with their own psychosis-driven fearmongering. as if they're driven to pass on the infection via shared trauma.
I guess what makes it weird is all of those other religions having a religious episode
Probably because the people who made the show experienced Christmas that exact way for themselves, where for the other holidays they read a book or asked a practicing religious person what it was like.
Probably because Christmas has been commercialized to hell and back in most places.
It started as a borrowed holiday; why not sell it out completely before they're done with it?
Considering the pagan festival christmas was intended to superscede was one of feasting and excess its kind of nice to see the opressor eaten alive from the inside.
I mean, fuck the christians, they already blather on enough
It would be hard to include all of the traditions co-opted to create Christmas in a half hour kids show.
Surprised they did Christmas at all considering the majority of the families in the show were Jewish.
Christmas is just Saturnalia remixed by Coca Cola though.
Know your audience.
Jesus versus Santa is not a difficult popularity contest to call.
Yeah, one dude wants you to give up all your stuff, the other wants to give you free stuff.
Where is Rugrats Eid Mubarak special?
Rugrats' animation style is based on the genius Estonian animator, Priit Parn. One of his proteges worked on Rugrats and Argh, Real Monsters.
Hotel E is generally considered a masterpiece and Triangle absolutely hilarious, but all of his work is incredible.
This cracked me up. Like I know the post is framed as a “war on Christian’s” thing but the idea that rugrats tackled these themes is just funny to me.
Passover, hanukkah, and kwanzaa aren't completely corporatized and shoved down secular peoples' throats by the people in power. Christians have only themselves to blame if they think secular christmas is an insult.
Hey OP, do you actually think Christians in the US are marginalized, or did you just cross-post that alt-right garbage here by accident?
Hey OP, do you actually think Christians in the US are marginalized
no
and?
Yeah the religious siginificance of Christmas to the Christians is lost to the mists of fucking time GTFO