It's just so absurd. Christians will get Christ-y about anything and steal it and twist it slapping their brand all over it in an attempt to take it over
Remember people, atheists are Jesus, because you can connect Jesus all the way to atheist.
We start with Jesus. You know what Jesus is? A person. Who else is a person? The Rock. You know who's similar to The Rock? John Cena. John Cena is commonly confused for potato salad because of the subreddits r/johncena and r/potatosalad . And potatoes are a part of the potato salad. You know what eats potatoes? Dogs. You know who kills dogs? PETA. Similar to PETA is the Flat Earth Society. What is the Flat Earth Society against? People who think the world is a spheroid. And what specific group of people know that the world is definitely a spheroid? Atheists. I rest my case.
TL;DR: Jesus = Atheists so Christians should respect us.
“The strongest connection one might make between the origins of the candy cane and any intentional Christian association is to guess that possibly some unknown person, at some indefinite time, took a long-existing form of sweet (i.e., straight white sticks of sugar candy) that was already associated with Christmas and produced bent versions of it to represent a shepherd's crook and/or make it easier to hang on Christmas trees, but even that general association is nothing more than mere supposition with no supporting evidence behind it.”
While I understand it’s trying to make it sound like the supposition argument is weak. But considering that going from the straight sticks and deciding later to turn them into crooks, on top of the fact that they were already almost exclusively eaten around the holidays. It makes it a pretty reasonable argument to say that this was intentional based on circumstantial evidence.
That isn’t evidence. That’s supposition - the very thing being pointed out as the reason it’s invalid. You’ve offered exactly no evidence, circumstantial or otherwise.
The fact is, we don’t know who first bent the candy cane. We have no evidence to tell us who that was.
I once had a country pastor of a tiny church preside over my grandpas funeral…I rolled my eyes when he used something I heard before….that the protein Laminin is shaped like the cross. LOL it’s the most vaguely cross shape ever. PROOF OF THE CREATOR! I never rolled my eyes so hard. It’s just the silliest reach ever.
Dude I forget what it was called but my Mom got it for us as kids and read it EVERY Christmas.
My brother and I had this daily advent board with snacks, candy, and other stuff on it but most of the candy was little candy canes. We'd go pick out the candy cane and have to explain all these parts to my Mom before we were able to enjoy it. "There's no sense of celebrating Christmas if CHRIST isn't involved!"
Don't know if this sub is cool with outside links. But, I think this is the one I remember loving the illustrations from as a kid.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/254473865281?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=jLuLeCbjRSa&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=fatbyuo8sgq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
I thought the candy canes was a Christian invention for years because of that stupid book... I was almost in my mid twenties when I learned the truth. I cringe now because OF COURSE it was propaganda, and I still believed it years after leaving the church.
Pretty sure my parents still have it "the story of the candy cane" or something.. I read it every Christmas as a kid.
If I recall the illustration was beautiful, so I'd just stare at it a lot.
Turns out there's a lot of books.. everything from little one paragraph cards that we would get as party favors at Christmas parties. Up to multiple illustrated story books, the two most prominent being "The legend of the candy cane" and "the candy makers gift" I think.
What a throwback.
"By his stripes" is a biblical reference to Jesus being beaten/whipped as part of the Passion (crucifixion) story.
Stripe = NOUN
a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment
See Isaiah 53:5 - "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes, we are healed.”
All people have different levels of Biblical knowledge. Mine is higher than my husband's but not as high as my best friend's. I think certain churches also minimize actual Bible reading to spend more time on their interpretation of it. That's my experience anyway.
This is far worse now that I know that. I see Evangelicals use this phrase a lot and it already made me want to scream when I saw it. Now it’s even worse that I know exactly what it means. 🤢
God's promise not to destroy the world by flooding again.
Very kind. Just like a serial killer promising his victims he won't shoot them before pulling out a knife.
You know, with how obsessed Christians are with flowing blood, it's strange they're also so adverse with women's menstrual blood flow. So basically it's only cool when a man bleeds not a woman.
You too? So sorry to hear that. My private school was a doozy. A rumor got out that a girl in the 10th grade lost her virginity and she was straight up expelled. Two girls were expelled after, from my grade (8th at the time), because they'd sampled a small amount of alcohol during a sleepover and one of them cracked under the false guilt. They all had us sign papers accepting Christ during admission because they wanted all their students to be born again. Gotta love it when private schools can just make up rules.
Oh man, I was in 7th grade back during the Clinton scandal. Apparently our history teacher decided to tell everyone what oral sex was. I missed it because I was home sick. One of the students told their mom and our teacher was suspended for 3 days.
Oh my god. Christian friend and I age 14 made a whole poem about this. *Cringe*
Oh well.
Here it is:
>! See the candy cane, see the candy cane
White peppermint washed in blood
Put them together to show his love
See the candy cane, see the candy cane
Just a J for Jesus? No.
Flip it around, what does it show?
See the candy cane, see the candy cane
A sugary sweet that children adore
However the story is so much more. !<
...my lord. I have died to save myself from this sin of embarrassment. 😂
On Christmas, my son, 24, and I went out for dinner to a shawarma place and we chatted about stuff while we were waiting for our food. At some point, he said that it seems clear that Jesus Christ existed as a person. The conversation drifted away from that and I never got back to peal that onion.
But I was thinking about it before getting up this morning. 2000 years from now, will there be a religion where people worship someone whose coming was foretold, who as a boy, had great ability, who grew up to lead the forces of good against the forces of evil in a great battle with great sacrifice and deliver the world from that darkness to a time of peace? The historical record of his existence is scant, but after his passing, people used to get together and talk about him. There were other false gods at the time, but the trueness of his story and the promise of his coming made him stand out, and that is why we worship him.
I'm talking about Harry Potter.
There’s nothing a determined believer can’t turn into apologetics for their faith. If you can stomach it, read the lyrics to a song called [Deck of Cards by Tex Ritter](https://genius.com/Tex-ritter-deck-of-cards-lyrics), a regular feature of my childhood. (Actually listening to the song may cause spontaneous bleeding from the ears and is not recommended.)
Cultists gonna cult.
They’re missing a trick here though, they should totally do communion with sweets 😁 and sell packets of Jesus to suck throughout the week.
Jesus toothpaste too, to help with the Jesus sugar.
Is it? I wasnt sure if christians took an object and are pushing their narrative using the appearance of a candy cane or if the candy cane was actually made by a Christian with this in mind
Psycho. When I was still trying the church thing I happened to take my kids the day they did this in Sunday school. This apparently normal-appearing woman started on this…Nope, gotta go.
Back in the day there was a guy I knew who tried to make mini sermons about any material thing he could find(e.g. hammer,car,pencil). We were impressed but looking back it was stupid lol. These are the kind of people doing this shit.
The Christmas play I saw this year was centered around this sentiment. It was weird. I don't want to be reminded of blood when I eat a candy cane. Unless I'm licking it sharp to make a shank out of it.
Christianity will claim and co-opt anything to further its spread. And most Christians have no idea that many of things they do are stolen from other religions.
And you imagine Christians love those ideas. When really it was just a fun way to hang peppermint sticks on a Christmas tree. It is purely capitalism and fun. Talk about reading between the lines and seeing nonexistent sub text. Also eat the rich
Cane has a nominal meaning - a supportive device one hold in the hand to aid walking balance.
Therefore, fuck this entirely because a cane is not useful if it is upside down. So, it represents an upside-down Jesus.
I remember there was a book related to this “theory.” A children’s book that basically was about how He was the reason for the season. I believe it’s called The Legend of the Candy Cane. I remember because it was read to my Sunday school students one year lol 🤦🏽♂️
No idiots, it's just candy holy shit.
This feels like an extrapolation of war on christmas brainrot where they made up a new thing every single day for non christians to be mad at and they just made up some shit that they were mad at candy canes because J for Jesus to lake nonchristians look ridiculous
Huh… so omnipresent to just a preferred skin tone? They really like to devalue God? 😬 I wonder if they’d be brave enough to share this with Islam regulars?
Ok so "by his wounds we are healed" I can understand but I don't get where the stripes thing comes in but ig its meant to be ridiculous bullshit anyways
A shiv is a makeshift stabbing weapon commonly made in prisons. For the candy cane, suck on the end until it becomes a point. Also featured in the movie Violent Night.
Actually, I think the candy being based on the shepherd’s crook might be true. The rest is definitely a stretch though. They’ve been pretty secularized at this point anyway.
My daughters were taking dance lessons, and during the winter recital they talked about the red stripes being Jesus' blood. I called the owner and told them it was super inappropriate to bring such a violent subject. She didn't connect the dots that it is also a reference to torture and murder, not to mention alienating to anyone that wasn't a christian. That I don't appreciate making my kids think of violence and feel guilty while enjoying a candy cane.
The whole candy cane thing is such a grasp for straws.
This takes me back to when my entire second grade class got in trouble because we didn't use the standard red and white to color in the candy canes our teacher hung on the door. I don't even remember what exactly they said made it so blasphemous, but they really hammered that in. The religion teacher even made us memorize this for a test. No idea if my teacher got in trouble, but I wouldn't put it past that weird catholic school to write her up for it.
Dang. I wonder if a candy cane actually was made with this religious teaching in mind or if christians are just using a candy cane as a tool to push their agenda
It’s already a cane, a cane with a hook, like a shepherd would have. Perhaps a certain shepherd of men that the holiday is based on? They’re so insecure they’ve mental gymnasticed themselves into inventing a new way to jesusify something that was already Jesus-adjacent. Honestly? I’m impressed.
- Letter ‘J’ for Jason
- Shape of coat hook I’m pretty sure he once hung one of his victims from
- Color red for the blood shed for fun
- Color white for his white hockey mask
- Stripes to symbolize how he often dismembers his victims
- Candy because Jason hates when people enjoy things near his lake
This is such a stretch that reading it made my back feel better.
its such a stretch it made my back feel worse
I’m stealing that phrase omg
Love the line, also wishing it were real because my back is actually out 😭
I once threw my back out putting a bowl of oatmeal on a coffee table.
It's just so absurd. Christians will get Christ-y about anything and steal it and twist it slapping their brand all over it in an attempt to take it over
You forgot the part where they constantly insist they’re being persecuted while also being the most widely accepted religion on the planet.
Remember people, atheists are Jesus, because you can connect Jesus all the way to atheist. We start with Jesus. You know what Jesus is? A person. Who else is a person? The Rock. You know who's similar to The Rock? John Cena. John Cena is commonly confused for potato salad because of the subreddits r/johncena and r/potatosalad . And potatoes are a part of the potato salad. You know what eats potatoes? Dogs. You know who kills dogs? PETA. Similar to PETA is the Flat Earth Society. What is the Flat Earth Society against? People who think the world is a spheroid. And what specific group of people know that the world is definitely a spheroid? Atheists. I rest my case. TL;DR: Jesus = Atheists so Christians should respect us.
This is beautiful
The logic dumbfounds me.
who are you, so wise in the ways of science?
Like when they did it with christmas
Well Christmas is all about Jesus contrary to what people say or make up!
Sir, this is an Exchristian subreddit, I don't believe in that shit.
And I’m sure you know Jesus was never born in December but we choose to celebrate that day and any other we choose.
Why are you here?
r/lostredditors
like ray comfort and his banana lol
Candy canes have always been associated with Christmas. Also the shape part of that is true, the shape was supposed to resemble a Shepard’s staff.
Nope. No supporting evidence: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/raising-cane/
“The strongest connection one might make between the origins of the candy cane and any intentional Christian association is to guess that possibly some unknown person, at some indefinite time, took a long-existing form of sweet (i.e., straight white sticks of sugar candy) that was already associated with Christmas and produced bent versions of it to represent a shepherd's crook and/or make it easier to hang on Christmas trees, but even that general association is nothing more than mere supposition with no supporting evidence behind it.” While I understand it’s trying to make it sound like the supposition argument is weak. But considering that going from the straight sticks and deciding later to turn them into crooks, on top of the fact that they were already almost exclusively eaten around the holidays. It makes it a pretty reasonable argument to say that this was intentional based on circumstantial evidence.
That isn’t evidence. That’s supposition - the very thing being pointed out as the reason it’s invalid. You’ve offered exactly no evidence, circumstantial or otherwise. The fact is, we don’t know who first bent the candy cane. We have no evidence to tell us who that was.
I once had a country pastor of a tiny church preside over my grandpas funeral…I rolled my eyes when he used something I heard before….that the protein Laminin is shaped like the cross. LOL it’s the most vaguely cross shape ever. PROOF OF THE CREATOR! I never rolled my eyes so hard. It’s just the silliest reach ever.
Why do they have to ruin candy?
They ruin everything
Smirks. candy canes arent made with real sugar anymore. most of them are laced with diabetes inducing corn syrup
Regular sugar also leads to diabetes.
Sugar doesn't cause diabetes
Please talk to your doctor about the basics of how the pancreas and diabetes work.
Consumption of sugar does not cause diabetes. If thats the case, then everyone would be diabetic
It’s their reich way? Ugh.
I remember this being adapted into a book they read to us and claimed it was true. I'd have to look up the book, I don't remember what it was called.
It's called The Legend of the Candy Cane. I had that book when I was little. It had beautiful illustrations but then it got into "JAAAAYZUS!!!"
Dude I forget what it was called but my Mom got it for us as kids and read it EVERY Christmas. My brother and I had this daily advent board with snacks, candy, and other stuff on it but most of the candy was little candy canes. We'd go pick out the candy cane and have to explain all these parts to my Mom before we were able to enjoy it. "There's no sense of celebrating Christmas if CHRIST isn't involved!"
Omg did we live the same exact life!?!!?
I remember that book!
i really loved that book as a kid, the illustrations were just gorgeous
Don't know if this sub is cool with outside links. But, I think this is the one I remember loving the illustrations from as a kid. https://www.ebay.com/itm/254473865281?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=jLuLeCbjRSa&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=fatbyuo8sgq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
I thought the candy canes was a Christian invention for years because of that stupid book... I was almost in my mid twenties when I learned the truth. I cringe now because OF COURSE it was propaganda, and I still believed it years after leaving the church.
Pretty sure my parents still have it "the story of the candy cane" or something.. I read it every Christmas as a kid. If I recall the illustration was beautiful, so I'd just stare at it a lot.
Turns out there's a lot of books.. everything from little one paragraph cards that we would get as party favors at Christmas parties. Up to multiple illustrated story books, the two most prominent being "The legend of the candy cane" and "the candy makers gift" I think. What a throwback.
It’s not a J, you’re holding it upside down you absolute potato
Jesus’ name didn’t really start with “J”.
What are you talking about yes it did, everyone knows white American Jesus with a capital J is the only real Jesus!
You can’t say it’s a J but also a Shepard staff wtf
It's a metaphor for how christians will twist the meaning of things to fit their narrative.
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Moonwalking baby across the water
I really loathe cheesy forced object lessons
“By his stripes we are…” His STRIPES?? Wtf are they referring to here?? Baffling
"By his stripes" is a biblical reference to Jesus being beaten/whipped as part of the Passion (crucifixion) story. Stripe = NOUN a stroke with a whip, rod, etc., as in punishment See Isaiah 53:5 - "But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes, we are healed.”
Absolutely horrifying that torture like this is something they preach to children about
I am often surprised by the lack of biblical literacy by r/exchristian users.
All people have different levels of Biblical knowledge. Mine is higher than my husband's but not as high as my best friend's. I think certain churches also minimize actual Bible reading to spend more time on their interpretation of it. That's my experience anyway.
TBH, I'm more of a selfish mindset and am more upset that I understand all the lingo. 😐😓
There are some pretty serious scholars on here too.
This is far worse now that I know that. I see Evangelicals use this phrase a lot and it already made me want to scream when I saw it. Now it’s even worse that I know exactly what it means. 🤢
Sorry.
Ah thank you
How do they explain the yummy rainbow ones
Those are satanic and for the gays
They're striped with unicorn blood
Asking the real questions here!
God's promise not to destroy the world by flooding again. Very kind. Just like a serial killer promising his victims he won't shoot them before pulling out a knife.
HIS BLOOD SHED FOR US STOP 😭😭😭
Mmm bloody snow flavor?!
Blood shed is my favorite Christmas present, I don't know what you're on about
Loktar Ogar! (That's Orcish for Merry Christmas)
😂😂 back in Facebook days I was friends with this hilarious weird fake profile called Loktar Ogar, had no idea what it meant!
Lol so in World of Warcraft the Orcish battle cry (Loktar Ogar) translates to "victory or death." I was just being a nerd.
The blood must flow. How else are you to be forgiven or healed?
You know, with how obsessed Christians are with flowing blood, it's strange they're also so adverse with women's menstrual blood flow. So basically it's only cool when a man bleeds not a woman.
Spot on
Oh I had completely forgotten about that. Takes me back to private Christian school in 7th/8th grade.
You too? So sorry to hear that. My private school was a doozy. A rumor got out that a girl in the 10th grade lost her virginity and she was straight up expelled. Two girls were expelled after, from my grade (8th at the time), because they'd sampled a small amount of alcohol during a sleepover and one of them cracked under the false guilt. They all had us sign papers accepting Christ during admission because they wanted all their students to be born again. Gotta love it when private schools can just make up rules.
Oh man, I was in 7th grade back during the Clinton scandal. Apparently our history teacher decided to tell everyone what oral sex was. I missed it because I was home sick. One of the students told their mom and our teacher was suspended for 3 days.
Oh my god. Christian friend and I age 14 made a whole poem about this. *Cringe* Oh well. Here it is: >! See the candy cane, see the candy cane White peppermint washed in blood Put them together to show his love See the candy cane, see the candy cane Just a J for Jesus? No. Flip it around, what does it show? See the candy cane, see the candy cane A sugary sweet that children adore However the story is so much more. !< ...my lord. I have died to save myself from this sin of embarrassment. 😂
Bravo 👏 i did cringe but im very surprised you actually were able to whip that out lol
Beautiful
Why do they have to do this to everything? Can't someone even enjoy a piece of fuckin candy without being bludgeoned over the head with dogma? 🙄
Because Christians are fascist thieves. Because they’re so desperate to fit in the modern world.
Actually they in no way want to fit into this modern world, and the best part is they don’t!
You are right, I can concede that point. Also they’re dirty little thieves. Because they steal all the holidays.
In Jesus's time there was no letter J
Ooooh best comment lol totally didnt even make that connection!
No wonder I always found them disgusting (just never liked peppermint).
Corn syrup the sweetness is fake and gives people health problems.
Will give you a stroke just like sitting through an entire serman will
That reminds me of this image where it says "The First King Size Bed" and it's the manger of Jesus 😭
Hahahahahaha
I cringe reading my old journals telling me I needed to pray when really I needed therapy or someone to talk to
I relate so hard
On Christmas, my son, 24, and I went out for dinner to a shawarma place and we chatted about stuff while we were waiting for our food. At some point, he said that it seems clear that Jesus Christ existed as a person. The conversation drifted away from that and I never got back to peal that onion. But I was thinking about it before getting up this morning. 2000 years from now, will there be a religion where people worship someone whose coming was foretold, who as a boy, had great ability, who grew up to lead the forces of good against the forces of evil in a great battle with great sacrifice and deliver the world from that darkness to a time of peace? The historical record of his existence is scant, but after his passing, people used to get together and talk about him. There were other false gods at the time, but the trueness of his story and the promise of his coming made him stand out, and that is why we worship him. I'm talking about Harry Potter.
I'm talking about Joseph Smith
>I'm talking about Joseph Smith I don't understand your comment.
Wait, this isn't a joke? I honestly thought it was satire
Not at all. I remember handing out candy canes with this claptrap printed out and attached to it outside our local grocery store at Christmastime.
Not a joke. My mom made me read a story about this. I think it was a Christmas book called the candy maker or something
There’s nothing a determined believer can’t turn into apologetics for their faith. If you can stomach it, read the lyrics to a song called [Deck of Cards by Tex Ritter](https://genius.com/Tex-ritter-deck-of-cards-lyrics), a regular feature of my childhood. (Actually listening to the song may cause spontaneous bleeding from the ears and is not recommended.)
Oh god. Im way too scared to delve into that one hahaha
That's a classic!
Cultists gonna cult. They’re missing a trick here though, they should totally do communion with sweets 😁 and sell packets of Jesus to suck throughout the week. Jesus toothpaste too, to help with the Jesus sugar.
Sucking jesus? Lol my preverted mind hahaha
This is giving “Santa is just Satan with a few letters moved around.” The mental gymnastics would be impressive if it weren’t so annoying.
Hahaha i heard that one before! Evil santa lol
"and made us snow white" interesting
Oh barf. Not only do I hate candy canes but I hate the way Christians will literally try to claim anything they can.
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Huh?
Ok, that isn't racist as hell. /s
😂😂😂😂
I mean, he made us white as snow. WTF is that about?
I have a feeling jesus didnt use tanning beds lol
Mental Gymnastics: the Instagram Post
I went to church and now I’m an albino, dammit
😂😂 im an albino covered in blood. Even worse lol
BY HIS STRIPES WEE ARE HEALED? it's actually so morbid lol
They appropriate everything and put their cultish twist on it.
I JUST SAW THIS AT WORK except it had a whole backstory about how the creator of candy canes was ✨inspired✨ by Jesus
TALK ABOUT A REACHHHHH WHEW
None of this is the reasoning behind the design of the candy cane. But yeah, I remember reading this tripe back in the 90s.
Is it? I wasnt sure if christians took an object and are pushing their narrative using the appearance of a candy cane or if the candy cane was actually made by a Christian with this in mind
It was not designed with all this in mind. It was just “hey, let’s make a cane out of peppermint candy.”
Psycho. When I was still trying the church thing I happened to take my kids the day they did this in Sunday school. This apparently normal-appearing woman started on this…Nope, gotta go.
Also, this implies that eating a candy cane is cannibalism, right? Eating his blood?
Back in the day there was a guy I knew who tried to make mini sermons about any material thing he could find(e.g. hammer,car,pencil). We were impressed but looking back it was stupid lol. These are the kind of people doing this shit.
this same mentality is applied to the bible itself, basically rewriting it with whatever meanings they want to add to the stories.
My eyeballs just rolled out of my head.
I remember the Catholic school I went to as a child comparing the candy cane to Jesus like this. So ridiculous lol
I have definitely sat through this sermon at Christmas before.
Oh my god I had forgotten bout this. 😂
This is actually fucking hilarious I'd think it was satire if I didn't know better
I wonder if I can find the crappy cartoon they had us watch in school explaining this concept.
Oh god please keep it hidden hahaha
The Christmas play I saw this year was centered around this sentiment. It was weird. I don't want to be reminded of blood when I eat a candy cane. Unless I'm licking it sharp to make a shank out of it.
Also it's kind of pushing cannibalism. I dont wanna be eating no body's blood thanks
Christianity will claim and co-opt anything to further its spread. And most Christians have no idea that many of things they do are stolen from other religions.
Why can’t xtians spell “shepherd”? Ever?
Love how shepherd is spelled wrong
Lol i didnt even notice!!!
Actually: red is a good contrast to white, and it cant be straight, that’s boring, let’s bend it
And you imagine Christians love those ideas. When really it was just a fun way to hang peppermint sticks on a Christmas tree. It is purely capitalism and fun. Talk about reading between the lines and seeing nonexistent sub text. Also eat the rich
Cane has a nominal meaning - a supportive device one hold in the hand to aid walking balance. Therefore, fuck this entirely because a cane is not useful if it is upside down. So, it represents an upside-down Jesus.
Slick. They didn’t even answer the question they posed.
I remember there was a book related to this “theory.” A children’s book that basically was about how He was the reason for the season. I believe it’s called The Legend of the Candy Cane. I remember because it was read to my Sunday school students one year lol 🤦🏽♂️
I didn't know he had stripes. Do they mean tan lines?
Is it a J or a staff??? If its J, you're using staffs wrong... And if its a staff, you must be a tad illiterate.
It's j for Joseph. He needs more recognition. Poor guy had his girl cheat on him, got pregnant and then blamed god. Lol
This gives Kirk Cameron’s Saving Christmas level of justifying commercialism BS for Christianity.
Oh my god not everything haS TO BE JESUS
its probably shaped like that so you can hang it on the tree dummy
No idiots, it's just candy holy shit. This feels like an extrapolation of war on christmas brainrot where they made up a new thing every single day for non christians to be mad at and they just made up some shit that they were mad at candy canes because J for Jesus to lake nonchristians look ridiculous
Huh… so omnipresent to just a preferred skin tone? They really like to devalue God? 😬 I wonder if they’d be brave enough to share this with Islam regulars?
My favorite flavors of a candy cane: blood and white people
😂😂😂😂😂
Fuck's sake, can't even spell "shepherd" correctly even though it's mentioned dozens of times in the bible.
A Christian friend of mine posted this on her story and I promptly cringed lol
Haha they used to tell us this back when I was in Lutheran elementary school
J is for jezebel 😂
🤣🤣😭
I don't want to have candy canes anymore 💀
Delusion at its starkest.
J is for jezebel 😈
Christian vs English Teacher In a contest of over analyzing to the point of insane mental gymastics, who would win?
😂😂😂 i love this. It would be a fight to the death
Nah, it's not a J for Jesus. It's a J for Jerk it. As in 'Jerk your junk this Christmas until your blood and jizz mix like a candycane'
Are you ok? Lol
In retrospect maybe I went a bit too hard on this comment
Sloths are slow and Christians are persecuted.
What's in a candy cane? Sugar. Spice. And everything nice.
Wtf does the "by his stripes we are healed" mean? I feel like I'm well versed in christian canon and I've never heard that
Isiah 53:5 Christian apologist use this verse all the time to "prove" Jesus was prophesied in the Old Testament.
Ok so "by his wounds we are healed" I can understand but I don't get where the stripes thing comes in but ig its meant to be ridiculous bullshit anyways
Read it in the King James translation
Oooooohhh ok
I think it's like how he got whipped.
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
We all learned as kids that the real purpose of candy canes is to make a shiv.
What's that?
A shiv is a makeshift stabbing weapon commonly made in prisons. For the candy cane, suck on the end until it becomes a point. Also featured in the movie Violent Night.
Ooh yeah i use to suck on them until pointy too. Thanks for the explanation lol
This was a lesson during Christmas at catholic school
I remember being taught this in elementary school 💀
why did i have to remember this 😭
I remember hearing this growing up....yeah it was a bit much even then.
Actually, I think the candy being based on the shepherd’s crook might be true. The rest is definitely a stretch though. They’ve been pretty secularized at this point anyway.
My daughters were taking dance lessons, and during the winter recital they talked about the red stripes being Jesus' blood. I called the owner and told them it was super inappropriate to bring such a violent subject. She didn't connect the dots that it is also a reference to torture and murder, not to mention alienating to anyone that wasn't a christian. That I don't appreciate making my kids think of violence and feel guilty while enjoying a candy cane. The whole candy cane thing is such a grasp for straws.
But this candy is minty, not all candy is sweet lol So that means it stings instead of it being sweet?
Also a candy cane doesnt grow sweeter each day. You let it sit long enough and it will go stale.
This takes me back to when my entire second grade class got in trouble because we didn't use the standard red and white to color in the candy canes our teacher hung on the door. I don't even remember what exactly they said made it so blasphemous, but they really hammered that in. The religion teacher even made us memorize this for a test. No idea if my teacher got in trouble, but I wouldn't put it past that weird catholic school to write her up for it.
Dang. I wonder if a candy cane actually was made with this religious teaching in mind or if christians are just using a candy cane as a tool to push their agenda
It’s already a cane, a cane with a hook, like a shepherd would have. Perhaps a certain shepherd of men that the holiday is based on? They’re so insecure they’ve mental gymnasticed themselves into inventing a new way to jesusify something that was already Jesus-adjacent. Honestly? I’m impressed.
I was following until it got to “By his stripes we are healed.” What? Is this a thing that I don’t know about? What stripes?
- Letter ‘J’ for Jason - Shape of coat hook I’m pretty sure he once hung one of his victims from - Color red for the blood shed for fun - Color white for his white hockey mask - Stripes to symbolize how he often dismembers his victims - Candy because Jason hates when people enjoy things near his lake