This is unintentional comedy gold:
I smell a a drinking game. Take a sip every time a stereotype or debunked fallacious claim appears. A very small sip – we don’t want people getting alcohol poisoning.
I love this winning commentary from Steven Humphrey over at Slog:
In case you haven’t noticed, atheists like me RUIN EVERYTHING for EVERYBODY. However, I will not ruin this. What follows is one of the most hilarious, anus-tingling Christian movie trailers ever, in which a small Alaskan town’s Christmas is totally ruined by fat, evil atheist Fat Daniel Baldwin. As it so happens, Fat Atheist Daniel Baldwin is so jealous of hunky Christ Warrior Ted McGinley (who apparently competed with Baldwin for the affections of his own Mom… WHAT???), he’ll do anything to ruin Christmas—even change a town banner to “Seasons Greetings” and man-handle an adorable child dressed as an angel. YOU FUCKING HORRIBLE BASTARD!!! C is for CHRIST, and C is for CHRISTMAS, you fascist, atheist MONSTER!!!!
Amen. …Wait.
I kept waiting for Kirk Cameron to make a cameo.
Wow. Christians started the United States of America, really?
Christians: “First they changed the name to Xmas, now they want the signs to be “Seasons Greetings” as if the month of December had other holidays like Kwanzaa or Hanukkah, damn atheists!!!!! They’re trying to hijack OUR holiday and make it their own, like we did to the pagans!!!!”Then we have the Catholic League pounding the drum saying atheists are responsible for Hitler, Marx, Stalin and Pol Pot, I truly believe they think if they repeat it enough it’ll rewrite history. You know, believe what you want as long as you aren’t hurting others, but don’t expect me respect you if you don’t respect me.
That is hilarious. Are you sure this isn’t an SNL skit? My 11 year overheard it and wants to see the movie. She feels atheists are underrepresented in the film industry.
I’m not even an atheist ( relatively secular Reconstructionist Jew FTW), and I’m offended/amused by the portrayal of atheists in this trailer. Note to Christians: Christmas is indeed fun and awesome, but not everybody likes to have it shoved down their throats
The beginning of that starts with a line about how Christmas is a time for everybody to come together and ends with a line about how Christmas is for Christ.Let me say something to everybody who believes that Christimas is simultaniously for everybody and for Christians alone. I’m an atheist. I exist, too.
“who apparently competed with Baldwin for the affections of his own Mom… WHAT???”I believe he was talking about his wife. Also, is this a real thing? Also also, you comment thing sucks.
How DARE those atheists try to steal away a holiday that Christians rightfully stole from the Pagans!
This looks BRILLIANT. I can’t wait to see it. Kinda reminds me of something my favorite sketch comedy group did a few years back:http://loadingreadyrun.com/vid…
First off, is anyone else feeling a little bad for Ted McGinley? he used to be so fun on married with children. And secondly, I like the reference to “brights,” a label no one ever really used . . . Happy solstice everyone!
Personally I hate the term “Season’s Greetings.”However, I can’t believe this is an actual movie. I think I’ll go see it in theaters and loudly root for the “bad guy.”
I love how they followed the fox news playbook and gave the guy we’re not supposed to like dark circles around his eyes like he never sleeps. http://mediamatters.org/resear…
Wait…what does running for mayor have to do with the court case in the movie?
I hate when Christians try to ruin my Christmas by making it all about biblical mumbo jumbo.
This is satire right? I’m going to pretend it is. It makes it more enjoyable that way. And still just as ridiculous.
I hate how Christians ruined Yule by taking expressions of affection that were hand made by the giver into a major money grab the last 3 months out of the year. Lowe’s already has their X-mas stuff up and it isn’t even Samhain yet.grrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Also, they act like this atheist who is ending the town’s Christmas celebration has a shot at winning a mayoral election … in ALASKA! How paranoid are these Christians?
Gah, thank you! I was trying to place him.
Pity it appears to be a straight-to-DVD (what a surprise!) movie. I like the idea of getting a group together to go watch it at the cinema and mock the bejesus out of it. Perhaps a game of fallacy bingo…. I’m curious as to what kind of bullshit ending it has, though.
yeeeaaaahhhh…..This movie requires lots of alcohol and a group of equally inebriated atheists to watch.
I just noticed that the poster of the video is OnKneesforJesus… Is it just me or does that sound like the title for some gay Hispanic porn?The line under it is ‘Coming out this Holiday Season!’ too… Yep, gay porn.
Ok, trying to do a little analysis here.The ‘Merry Christmas’ sign at first appeared to me to be on a storefront, but after watching this a few times, I think it’s actually on City Hall.So, a Merry Christmas sign, a creche, and a live action nativity all on City Hall property, presumably using tax funds and resources. When there are a dozen churches or private residences around that can host such displays. That one’s a slam dunk for separation of church and state, no matter how sunken the eyes of the person filing the complaint.And the preacher at the dinner table says ‘He doesn’t want equal representation of all religions, he wants no religion’, which isn’t true.No religion on government property or with govt funds, sure.And if a Judge issued an order, the police should be enforcing it, not leaving it up to the poor outnumbered atheist to personally drag cute Christian children off the City Hall property.And finally, if the evil atheist is so unhappy about seeing things shoved down his throat at Christmas, the happy unified Christian town should be able to easily shove so much Christianity down his throat in the town itself that he would leave. Every house, church and piece of non government property covered in creches and unified Christians singing deeply religious carols on every corner.
I think I’ll suggest that for my godless meetup group’s December DVD party!
I could only watch half the trailer, since I have to deal with fools like this regularly in real life. The portrayal of atheists may be cartoonish; the portrayal of Christians (or at least some Christians) is spot on.
I already have my Cthulu figs up to counter the Christians in my office. I think of Cthulu as counter Christian programming. When my God shows up the world ends, just like yours. Okay, so mine ends with him driving everyone insane and eating everyone but at least he’ll eat me last. (just as an aside I don’t worship Cthulu, except in gamer terms, but who else are you going to have up in your cube? They don’t offer Darwin, Dawkins or Jen plushes, yet…)
The Founding Fathers were deists at best. Even though I’m a conservative Christian, I tend to want to scream every time I hear people claiming that the USA is a “Christian” nation because it isn’t — a large portion of the population might be but we also have the freedom to pursue our own beliefs.
Token conservative Christian commenter here. :)I hate that there’s some asinine “War on Christmas” crap going on but as a Christian, I despise the materialistic crap that happens every “holiday season”. It makes me sick because it’s a religious day for me and all the music in the malls, the commercial crap, etc. totally detracts from the meaning of the day. You don’t find this stuff associated with Hannukah — they actually sort of respect that. The church season of Christmas doesn’t even start until December 25th (and then goes on for 12 days). The four weeks preceding Christmas is the season of Advent which is a time of waiting and expectation and all the commercialist crap ruins Advent for me.My $0.02 FWIW.Oh… and I hate FOX News and Bill O’Reilly and would like to slap him for starting the “War on Christmas” crap.
I’m an Atheist who celebrates Christmas. What the conservatives really want to promote is Chri$tma$.
You won’t be seeing it in theaters…according to IMDB, it’s direct to DVD. Who woulda guessed?
Yeah, and one of the problems is that in this “war”, secular is defined as materialistic and commercial. Have you seen Tim Minchin’s White Wine in the Sun? Beautiful song, and it’s kind of a great way to show people a more mature secular view on Christmas, and break down the b.s.It’s great to see such a response from a conservative Christian.
Let’s get the pop corn popping for this imaginary war!!
There is a great Evolving Darwin action figure set. I think “think geek” sells them. I bought a set for a friend a while back… perfect for on top of you monitor!
We have an elaborate Christmas celebration here. We decorate a tree with animal and planet ornaments. We follow my husband’s southern French traditions by making 13 desserts on Christmas eve and eating a drinking the night away. We wake up in the morning and open presents, and then go play frisbee golf. We make no mention of Jesus for two reasons: 1) we are atheists, and 2) he was born in August.
Guuuuuuuuh . . . They were promoting this ridiculous film at the Values Voters Summit this weekend.
I…I actually really want to watch this movie now….Fuck.What can I say, I like crap.
I thought with the “Honey, please come down” that girl was his daughter.
I don’t get the idea that they respect Hannukah, it’s just at less than 2% of the population, why bother? You can’t find Matzah at all grocery stores during passover.
Me too. It’s funny, I know that they think their atheist is a big meanie but even cast as the villain everything he says still makes sense. I guess I have to give them props for (at least in the trailer) presenting a reasonable facsimile of atheist concerns. Of course I am concerned that they think these things are villainous, not to mention the fact that they’re convinced that before atheists ruined everything everyone IN THE WORLD was united by Christmas. Hmm, they don’t have it on Netflix, what to do?
GUESS THE ENDING:Ending One – FIRE ENGULFS THE VILLAIN AS HE’S DOOMED TO ETERNAL DAMNATION.Ending Two – Religious conversion – The villain sees the error of his ways and calls off the whole thing. Having no more differences of opinion, the whole lot of ’em meet at Sarah Palins place for roasted caribou and hymns.Ending Three – The smarmy atheist is defeated and is exiled to the less Canada-esque parts of America.Ending Four – The smarmy atheist wins and the publicly owned religious symbols are sold off to private citizens to display on their private property. Twelve feet away. The funds go to the local school which buys its very first science textbook. The first generation of students to use it become inspired to go to college where they become astrophysicists, climatologists and *gasp* evolutionary biologists!
Sometimes Straw Man has a point.
At least part of this movie is accurate: the atheist appears calm and rational throughout, while the defender of Christmas gets angry and yells a lot. I can’t believe they made this garbage. Are Ted McGinley and Daniel Baldwin bible thumpers, or are they just willing to do anything for a buck? Seems like usually the stars in this sort of thing are there with an ax to grind, not just for the paycheck. I mean, Stephen Baldwin I would understand….
My money’s on ending 2.
Wait, what’s are “brights”?
Disregard. Google is my friend. But there you are, count me as evidence that even atheists have never heard of “brights”. The name sounds too cultish to be attractive to me and, I expect, many other non-believers.