Christians' war on Christmas
80 percent majority decries persecution by Jews, athiests, ACLU
Seems up here in the dark, rainy Pacific Northwest, we've got a little stink on our hands that's making national news, especially among those phony "War On Christmas" types who can never keep their facts, or religions, straight.
You see, over at Sea-Tac International Hyphenated Airport, they put up the usual, you know, Christmas trees. And some rabbi threatened to sue if they didn't also put up a display of a Menorah to commemorate Hanukkah. Just like they do at the City of Seattle and any number of other government-owned properties in the region. So what did the Hyphenated Airport brain trust do? Against the pleadings of the rabbi and his lawyer, the airport took the trees down instead.
And then, if you'll pardon the Satanic reference, all Hell broke loose. That includes Bill O'Reilly, pronged tail and all.
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Yeah, Christians have attacked Christmas. So have capitalist greed, insane consumerism, and the seeming lack of familiarity of many Christians with the basic tenets of their namesake, aka The Prince of Peace. Don't believe me? Try combining, with a straight face, Bill O'Reilly's name with any of the following phrases: Forgiveness. Turning the Other Cheek. The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth. Go ahead. I double-dare you. Lose and you have to watch his show, and vice versa: if you have to watch his show, you lose.
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And so we get tempests in treepots like this year's airport fiasco. The reports are already swirling wildly that the rabbi demanded the trees be removed (he didn't), that the Jews and the godless secularists at the ACLU are in cahoots (we should be so lucky), and that the liberals in Hollywood, hearing the word "war," are scouting for a movie treatment (probably true). This preposterous nonsense is sort of like the run-up to the Iraq War, and, oddly enough, is being propagated by many of the same people. It's fiction, based sorta loosely on what might once have been a fact, being harnessed in the service of a preordained and flatly ridiculous conclusion.
It's a bunch of rich white guys, the folks screwing 90 percent of America, trying to create a fake controversy so they can stand with (as opposed to on) the little folks. What war on a holiday? By whom? How can the 80 percent of this country that calls itself Christian be under serious attack, let alone the threat of annihilation, by anyone, unless it's some idiot who talks to and hears from God constantly and has his finger on the nuclear button?More:
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