Yet another dang blasted religious paranoid meme.
I got the "Mailbomb the ACLU with Christmas Cards!" meme several years ago and quit a chat list over it because no one understood why I was so upset. So, for anyone who might get this meme this coming Christmas season, DO NOT pass it along, DO NOT follow any other instructions in it. The ACLU is not out to kill Christianity.
In fact, The ACLU Fights For Christians! ACLU Fights For Christmas Tree
A Facebook Christmas Story - ACLU Blog
meme dissection and rant AKA mangle follows: --
Dec. 17
😡Meme: Subject: let's have some Christmas fun
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: This forward/re-share meme meme is not the way to do it.
😡Meme: I got this from an Email list and thought it worth forwarding.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: That's what they all say. Newsflash, it's not. It's a freaking forward. It's a religious meme for crying out loud!
😡Meme: To those on a list where this is not the main theme, I apologize if it bugs you.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: *Rolling eyes* ARGH! Don't forward in the first place. Then you don't have to duck out of getting flak for it with a lame disclaimer/apology!
😡Meme: It is so good, and I think it is worth our time to do so, I will be doing this today and sending it out on Monday.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: *Tsks* What's so darn good about it? Nothing. You've been duped by a religious meme trying to pass itself off as Christmas fun. Good grief, people will fall for anything as long as it's a forward and especially if Christ is mentioned in it somewhere! Aaaaaaaaagh!
😡Meme: I say, "Let's all do it, and have our voices be heard!" The suggestion is below:
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I say, get a real hobby. Get a life. How many times more are people going to keep following the dictates of some stupid meme that claims it can "Let your voices be heard!"? That's so overkilled and a dead give away it's nothing but email spam that spreads via overly emotional people. I have a suggestion - don't forward it! Don't do what the darn thing suggests. Have your own Christmas fun instead!
😡Meme: THIS IS A GREAT IDEA! THE BEST I HAVE HEARD ALL YEAR!!"
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Pardon me while I get something for nausea. Best idea all year!? OMGWTH planet have you been living on!?
😡Meme: Can't think of a better way to have some Christmas fun."
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Then you're in serious need of some kind of help, mental help. Most of us celebrate Christmas by caroling, gift giving, dinner with family and friends, surely you've heard of stuff like that, I hope? How then, can you claim this stupid letter is more fun than all those things!? You must be really, really sad!
😡Meme: Hey, wanna have some fun this CHRISTMAS?
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Hey, of course, duh! But my idea of fun does not include wasting money and time mailing people I don't even know, in the hopes of pressuring them one way or another about Christmas and what to do about it.
😡Meme: Send the ACLU a CHRISTMAS CARD!
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: I don't send Christmas cards to strangers...Only friends and family…if I'd send cards at all. I generally don't. My preference is sending notes on the net (none of the meme variety, all personally written) and giving small gifts.
😡Meme: Since they are working so very hard to get rid of the CHRISTMAS part of this holiday,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, brother, here we go yet again! The typical religious paranoid meme trying to dupe trusting, nervous Christians again. The same old "They're trying to stop Christianity! Do something! DO SOMETHING AND PASS IT ON! "MAILBOMB The ACLU!"
Get a grip!
Typically, chain mail claims the ACLU is very anti-Christian and are trying to take away yo religion!!! Give me a pickin break! They are not anti-Christian. They are pro separation of church and state. And, they are powerless to make or stop anybody from practicing whatever religion they like.
So seriously, what is the ACLU going to do to me for saying Merry Christmas? Huh? What are they going to do about it if I choose to put angels on my tree? Are they going to storm my house and take away our turkey and put us in chains for playing Christmas songs?
No?
Well then...Dry up. The big bad ACLU won't get you and won't cancel Christmas!
Think about this also - as much as you are feeling threatened by the existence of the ACLU because you're afraid they'll take your god away, how fair is it for you to foist your religion on anyone else? Even your own sad and scared brand of Christianity on another Christian? How fair is it to get scores of people duped by your fear mongering to mailbomb the ACLU with Christmas cards? You are trying to make fools and spammers out of Christians, and, you are not saving Christmas, you are trying to ruin it instead!!
We do not send cards in the hopes of guilting, shaming, or persuading people to turn Christian so they no longer pose such a threat to us...We give cards because we love our family and friends, and wish to pass on pure, unadulterated Christmas cheer...That's ALL! No strings attached! You are trying to cheapen Christmas by turning it into a misguided religious agenda.
Very bad idea!
Unless you personally know someone at the ACLU, don't send cards! You're not doing it out of the kindness of your heart, you're doing it because you're an insecure, religious nutcase who believes every company is out to ban Christmas and anything Christ! Go away!
😡Meme: all the crosses and anything to do with Christ, we should all send them a nice, CHRISTIAN, card to brighten up their dark, sad, little world.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: You are seriously deluded! It is you who are living in a dark, sad little world. Has it not even occured to you that maybe some people belonging to the ACLU are Christians!? ACLU stands for American Civil Liberties Union, not Anti-Christian Losers United and they are not the AntiChrist Lackees Union! Get that through your thick misguided head!
And again, stop trying to get us to foist our religion on people we don't even know!
Don't tell me how to spend my money!
Don't tell me how to have Christmas fun!
Don't even try convincing me your idea is Christmas fun!
It is not!
It's a pile of alarmist crap! It's a travesty done to Christmas itself.
You are doing nothing but promoting harassment via post office, and at Christmas of all times!
That is not Christian. It is pushy and insincere. It is on the same level as 4chan pranks.
You won't win anyone to Christ by being pushy, insincere, or both at once.
😡Meme: Not a snowman or Santa Claus or forest animals,
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Oh but of course not! In your sad, narrow mind, they must absolutely be completely pagan and evil and not 'Christian' symbols, and you probably think Santa is actually Satan, too. Sheesh! And they don't understand why I get upset over religious forwards and the people who pass them along!
NEWSFLASH:
God created the animals. God made St. Nikolas, who gave away presents in Christ's name, I might add. God made the snow, and gave us the brains to make snowmen! God did not invent torture, which is what the cross was used for, and it's a symbol of Jesus's crusifiction, not his birth. So don't you dare tell me what kind of card to send where! I'll spend my money and send cards or not send them to whoever I please, and I'll do it in the spirit Christmas is actually intended to be!
😡Meme: but a Christian Christmas card with a Christian message.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Like I said before, you're foisting your own religion on people at Christmas is not going to make them turn Christian and become less a threat to you!
You will only come off looking like an overbearing idiot, which is the exact pathetic parody of Christianity that anti-theists love to believe in and bash.
If people actually do fall for this sorry idea of 'Christmas fun' as you call it, and the ACLU eventually gets wind of this chain, they'll know that a bunch of knee-jerking, gullible Christians were fooled into sending them Christmas cards, not out of kindness, but out of fear and loathing for an organization they have chosen to believe is next to the antiChrist!
😡Meme: Here's the address ... just don't be rude or crude (It's not the Christian Way, ya know?):
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Your whole idea is rude and crude! Rude, because it promotes and incites people to send tons of cards out of some sort of wish to convert everybody in the ACLU. It is crude because of the butchery it's doing to the Christmas spirit! Sending cards to a bunch of people you don't know because you're threatened and you have an agenda is not Christmas! It's an exploitation of Christmas, and *that* is crude!
😡Meme: ACLU 125 Broad Street 18th Floor New York, NY 10004
Two tons of Christmas cards would freeze their operations
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Mailbombing - the Christian way - yeah, right! My eye! As I said before, this idea is right down there on the level with anything coming from 4chan trolls.
😡Meme: because they wouldn't know if any were regular mail containing contributions.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: Well, that's considerate, isn't it? Bog them down with so much mail they have to work overtime to process it all, which means missing their own Christmas holidays!
This has got to be one of the most stupid, childish, desperate and foolish not to mention insincere Christmas ideas I've heard to date!
😡Meme: So spend 37 cents and tell the ACLU to leave Christmas alone.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: You spend your own 37 cents, preferably on a card for your own loved one, and leave me alone!
😡Meme: NOW, go get your envelope and do it before you forward this to EVERYONE is your address book.
🧝♀️Ocean Elf: No, don't! Don't waste the envelope, don't waste the money, and for gosh sake don't spam everybody in your address book with this incredibly obnoxious meme!
OVER - AND - OUT!
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