I went to a Toys For Tots event today which is a worthy enough cause to get me out of bed after a night of whiskey and cigars.  The marines were there with some devastatingly kick ass trucks and their were booths setup for kids to make awful ornaments and other artfully challenged drawings. Aside from the face painting, Santa Claus was the big draw for the kids, but unfortunately for me Mrs. Claus was no where to be found.

After wandering around for a while eating free food and drinking I picked up a card a little brat threw down on the ground after ripping it off from a candy cane. I picked up the card and read it.

It’s Christmas time. I know that. I am not here to take the ‘Christ’ out of Christmas, but is the truth to much to ask for? It is a myth, a fable, a distortion, a misappropriation of the fact, the candy cane is not a Christian religious symbol. To put it straight, the candy cane as a symbol of Christ is a bunch of bullshit, but there are some people who want to put ‘Christ’ in everything and they can’t be reasoned with or stopped.

Claims made about the candy’s religious symbolism have become increasingly widespread as religious leaders have assured their congregations that these mythologies are factual, the press have published these claims as authoritative answers to readers’ inquiries about the confection’s meaning, and several lavishly illustrated books purport to tell the “true story” of the candy cane’s origins. This is charming folklore at best, and though there’s nothing wrong with finding (and celebrating) symbolism where there wasn’t any before, the story of the candy cane’s origins is, like Santa Claus, a myth and not a “true story.”
Snopes

Christians with Christ are like the Terminator and every Christmas ‘They’ll be Back’.

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