It's "The War on Christmas" Season Once Again...
By bluegal Thursday Nov 08, 2007 3:14pm
Just like holiday Christmas retailers, the spawn of BillO and Dobson like to rush the season. Talk2Action:
These days, the Religious Right doesn't even have the decency to wait until Thanksgiving to start whining about what terms people use to describe the December holidays.
Liberty Counsel, a Religious Right legal group associated with the late Jerry Falwell, issued an alert Oct. 30 vowing to slap retailers with either a "Friend" or "Foe" label this year based on whether the word "Christmas" appears in their ads, in catalogs and on Web sites.
Focus on the Family, in an effort to be hip and trendy, has a new video short out featuring Stuart Shepard, one of its faux reporters. The cheeky Shepard explains how this year he's celebrating "Tossmass" by discarding all of the catalogs that fail to use religiously correct terminology.
Not to be outdone, the folks at World Net Daily are hawking "Christmas Defense Kits" featuring a bumper sticker that reads, "This is America! And I'm going to say it: `Merry Christmas!'"
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First on the front lines against Xmas!!!
Unbelievable how weak the faith of so many xians is.
Why are reich-wingers so obsessed with "war"?
This is America and I'm going to say it: Out of Iraq Now!
Happy Hollidays!
A song for THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS courtesy of His Awesomeness Roy Zimmerman.
http://royzimmerman.com/lyrics/peacenick_toys.html
Peacenick: A holiday album that should play in everyone's home.
Actually the correct term is "Advent" which begins on December 2nd, four Sundays before Christmas. Christmas actually begins on December 25th and runs through January 6th, Three Kings Day, hence the 12 Days of Christmas.
Actually the holidays depress me anyway. I rooting against xmas this year.
Even Jesus himself said,
"Christmas! You're either with us or against us!!!"
WWJD?
Start labeling everyone into "friend" and "foe" of course.
That's what Jesus was all about.
Actually, we'll call it a preliminary first strike. Santa was known to be developing tidings of mass depression.
I'm disappointed that the Daily Show or Sam Seder didn't do month-long coverage of the War on Yom Kippur back in September.
If they didn't declare these insane wars, no one would notice them at all.
Dr. Matt @ 3:
Well, let me put it this way. If you look at a NASCAR event, or watch the military channel for more that 10 minutes a clear pattern emerges: Most of the advertisement is for male enhancement (whatever that is) or erectile dysfunction pills.
Draw your own conclusions, as the audiences of both are mostly right wing, conservative, white males...
Not this shit again.
The only thing more insane than the war on christmas asshats at foxnews are the atheist asshats who are embracing it.
Don't these people have any friends or family to think about?
To bible thumping christians who want to keep the name Christmas tree and not holiday tree.....Christmas tree are pagan!
Jeremiah 10:1-5 in the Bible says the following (NIV):
1 Hear what the LORD says to you, O house of Israel.
2 This is what the LORD says: "Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by signs in the sky,though the nations are terrified by them.
3 For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut a tree out of the forest, and a craftsman shapes it with his chisel.
4 They adorn it with silver and gold; they fasten it with hammer and nails so it will not totter.
Read the bible and drop the argument.
Mike @ 11:
At least there has been a real war on Yom Kippur.
THis is America and I'm going to say it : Fuck Bush
This has gotten to be like the annual return of the Swallows to Capistrano. Right on time, the religious wingnuts start complaining about being the persecuted majority.
Gas costs too much. I can't afford Christmas anymore no matter what you call it.
OK, folks, don't forget to pick up your copy of BILL O’REILLY’S TWELVE DAYS OF THE WAR ON XMAS
HAPPY HOLLIDAYS
There's a turkey a gobblin' out in the yard
Now he's gutted and stuffed and he's basted and charred
And your father is whistlin' and washin' the blood down the drain
Christmas is pain
There's a crowd on the hillside with hatchets and saws
With a keen disregard for the forestry laws
And they happily hum while the stumps slowly bleed in the rain
Christmas is pain...
(More of this great Bob Dylan-knockoff at the link;-)
With everything turning to sh*t for conservatives, I'm surprised they didn't start the War on Xmas in July.
When is the last time Focus on the Family or World Net Daily made a loud plea for people to rally forces to help poor people? Hungry people? People in prison? The cause of peace? Do Christians even know what the beatitudes are any more or are they too busy worrying about islamofascism?
Tom (not Tom) @ 18:
Well, this year the conservative cuckoos are early with their bullshit on Christmas, so we may have a dry winter.
Mr. Blade @ 15:
The O.T. also says we shouldn't eat pork.
CD @ 14:
Talk2Action is "more insane" than WorldNutDaily, FOF, and Falwell's goons? Interesting conclusion.
Neignvilleon @ 24:
Do all Christian adhere to the words of James Dobson and Focus on the Family or have you just stereotyped Christians?
Rusty Shackleford @ 27:
"Talk to Action is a platform for reporting on, learning about, and analyzing and discussing the religious right -- and what to do about it."
I doubt they have embraced the idea of a war on Christmas.
This year I'll be celebrating Chanuka (spelling?), Kwanza, and the return of the annual gift man from the moon! And all at the same time while saying Happy Holidays to everyone, and celebrate the birth of black Jesus because we all know he wasn't white!
Christmas is just too cookie cutter plain, ya know!
To combat the consumerists for Christ crowd, my bumper sticker reads, “All I want for Happy Holidays is my habeas corpus."
You know muslims never complain about Ramadan being underappreciated and Jews never complain about Passover, but Christians have to go nuts over a pagan holiday.
Lets not forget George W. Bush said that civil rights for gay people violate "religious rights".
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7085158.stm
I don't hate Christians because there are certain sects that are very tolerate and most are very nice people, but some are very hateful despite having such power over the world. Muslim terrorism is a problem because they have been economically exploited in the past century. However, at my high school, Muslim students are generally more tolerate and accepting then many of the "devote" Christian Students. I know I can't make broad generalizations based on 2,700 students, but it seems the 80% Christian "minority" needs to lighten up.
Oh yeah, and Feliz Navidad!
WWJS @ 9:
WWJW?
Who would Jesus waterboard?
And please, quit hawking your made in China xmas junk already. Stores bedecked in xmas trees is bad enough but after being put on hold yesterday there was xmas music playing. unfriggin believable
Lynnianaa @ 30:
Hey, what about Christma-Hanu-Rama-Ka-Dona-Kwanzaa?
Yes, I'm really, REALLY promoting Roy Zimerman's album. Got a problem with that?
Duh! The War on Chrsitmas has started early because the X-mas troops are all over the place TWO WEEKS EARLY.
I was just out getting lunch and someone two feet away from me said, "Thank Goodness." What a bunch of secular propaganda. If that guy isn't trying to kill Jesus's birthday, then I'm a manipulated simpleton.
Jesus himself prefered Passover.
One cool thing, though -- miracle workers never get caught without a present for someone.
And then there was that camel. Parasite O'Reilly is trying to push his overloaded camel through the eye of the needle so hard, his head is buried in the camel's ass.
Oh wait! That's not a camel. It's just Roger Ailes.
CD @ 29:
The Talk2Action post was the source of the story. What "atheist asshats" were you referring to?
Rusty Shackleford @ 38:
Oh that explains why you thought I was writing about Talk2Action.
I forgot about that one. I'll add it, and Festivus, on my list of this year's season festivities.
It's the war invented by chickenhawks so they can say they have actually been in one:
"We fight the War on Christmas here so we don't have to fight them over there and possibly get dirty!"
Since everyone is starting the x-mas season so early I guess I'd better send out my greetings early, too:
BAH, HUMBUG!!!
CD @ 26:
I guess that God is either schizophrenic, a really bad writer with a massive case of ADD since the bible has some serious continuity problems. It is almost as if it was written by a bunch of failed writers who were pulling shit out of the thin air to fit their specific agendas at the time and place each specific book was written... oh, wait.
I don't understand why the religious right freaks out over the phrase "Happy Hollidays".
America is a capitalist Nation and ink costs money hence it is a lot cheaper to print "Happy Hollidays" than "Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year".
Further more not everyone celebrates Christmas but they do spend money thus it is a business savy move to make them feel included at a store.
Some background and history from the troops:
http://wikiality.com/War_On_Christmas
Dr. Who @ 43:
flame bait much?
curtilingus @ 8:
I'm with you, I hate the Hollidays and as far as I am concerned they can fight it out. BUT keep your religion out of politics, otherwise you are just like the people in the Middle East. I'm sure you can't see that, but its true.
Did you know Dec. 25 is not Jesus's birthday? Someone just picked that date so get a grip.
This is a perfect example of what's wrong in America - all the time and energy wasted on crap like this. Don't they know there's a war goin' on? Sheesh. I guess it's simple things for simple minds, and the righties have to keep the venom at fever pitch or else they can't function.
Mammon worship, how Christian of them. :roll:
The funny thing is the Bible denounced Christmas trees in homes and near altars. They were called asherahs and could be either a decorated pole or a tree.
The current tannenbaums are basically representations of the ancient Nordic tree Ydraggsil, which was their version of the axis mundi, with a Christianized dusting for justification.
JD @ 48:
Well said.
Even in the 1940's and the 1950's they were often wishing people, "Seasons Greetings." I've seen reproduction of Batman cover art with that greeting.
Given where we're at as a nation and culture and where we seem to be heading economically... I could give a flying fuck less about Christmas or any of these upcoming retail holidays....or what the friggin wingnuts want to bitch and moan about calling them..... JD
Rose @ 47:
Dec. 25th is also the birthday of Barbara Mandrell.
So wish people a Merry Mandrell.
don't waste your time on this crap... i don't care if this is off topic - but, please - everyone go to href="http://www.democracynow.org"> and watch or listen to dennis kucinich on todays show - he was awesome and had some scary info.
It is nice that these upstanding citizens are willing to stand up and defend Christmas. It is the only holiday in December and should be treated as such.
I always look forward to the War on Christmas. I hate Christmas!!!!! BRING IT ON
Mr. Anon @ 56:
Oh man that's Colbert level sarcasm.
*thumbs up*
My bumper sticker says,
Keep Christmas in church and at home and not in stores where it is reduced to a mindless, meaningless, empty ritual devoid of sanctity and value.
Too much?
Many of the people (B'nai Brith) who are screamin' about "Christmas" being displayed in public places and insisting on secularism are the same folks who are financially supporting a "Religious" or "Jewish" State in Israel. The duplicity irritates the hell out of me.
Calm
Stan @ 59:
Could you just say "Christmas doesn't come from stores"?
They throw that word "war" around pretty loosely and extremely disrespectfully when you consider that America has two very real wars raging right now, where people are dying and being maimed and mutilated. How many deaths have occurred in this "war" on Christmas? How many people have been banned from their churches and their community Christmas gatherings? How many are having to meet in secret so that they will not be imprisoned or killed? My God, why hasn't Bill O'Reilly had to defend himself against the people waging the war on Christmas? Has he been thrown in jail, or tortured so that he will quit claiming there is a war on Christmas? How many veterans returning from the war on Christmas are in homeless shelters?
This is stupid. But what is most discouraging is the number of stupid people who will believe this shit, even when their own eyes and own experiences tell them it is a lie. But these are the people who feel they have to shut their eyes and wave their hands in the air to worship God, like their God is some invisible cosmic hold up man. When will the stupidity end?
The "Merry Tossmas" video was actually pretty funny. It feels good to
throw awayrecycle all those catalogs. I don't bother to check whether they say "holiday" or "christmas"--I just toss 'em!Shouldn't Christmas be a uniter, not a divider?
Squeaky Wheels @ 64:
Seriously.
OK, I'm gonna take a chance here, because this has been on my mind all day, and I have yet to see an open thread opportunity... Speaking about off topic, and I don't want to be alarmist... but.. Does anyone have any idea what actual direction this comet thing that suddenly and pretty mysteriously suddenly flared up and got brighter is heading in?? Any astronomers out there can set the record straight on that?.. Reason being that the papers today discribe it as looking like the end of a dirty q-tip and the photo shown certainly looks like that.. No real tail visable.. Now I am not a scientist by any stretch nor do I star gaze, but here's the thing... If you hold a q-tip up and look at it straight on... what direction is that q-tip pointed in??? So, like I said, don't want to be alarmist and I really dislike going off topic but basically is this thing going away from us or heading in our direction??? Anyone know anything about this???? Thanks JD
"Not to be outdone, the folks at World Net Daily are hawking “Christmas Defense Kits” featuring a bumper sticker that reads, “This is America! And I’m going to say it: `Merry Christmas!’”
I'll be sure to send one of these to all my Jewish friends.
O'Reilly: Torture a nun for Christmas.
Hi, folks, Bill O'Reilly, with a message for your Holiday Season. As you know, we are at war with Catholo-fascists and this Holiday Season is no Furlough. I think that means anal sex. But anyhow, don't let the liberal neighbor who borrowed your lawn edger and then said it was broken but I saw him using it last week, spoil today's program, I mean your Holidays.
At FOX, we always know when it's the Holidays because Roger Ailes can't digest the eggnog, so he farts every five minutes. But that's not what I wanted to tell you. What you need to know is that this Holiday Season we will be torturing a nun every time someone uses the word 'Christmas.' Look, folks, Protestants do NOT celebrate Mass, not Christmas or any other Mass. It's Unamerican. What, are you going to allow the Pope to run your religion?
Happy Holidays, and let's not hear any more of the 'Papocatholocryptoromanapocalyptofakejesusism' best wishes this Holiday Season. And if you're having "High Holy Days," my staff wiill call the DEA. So don't try it. Every time you say 'Merry Christmas,' you Catholofascists, FOX Security will torture a nun.
You have been warned. Stay tuned, naked nuns being tortured after the break...
If people want to celebrate any holiday, fine. If they don't want to celebrate one, fine.
Why does it matter to BillO and his kind WTF we celebrate? You can't dictate how someone celebrates anything or any day.
Last Saturday when I went to the grocery they already had all the Christmas shit out to sell. Decorations and toys and such. They even had the fu*king Christmas candy out which will be almost two months old at Christmas.
Exactly my thought. And the people here at C&L are falling for the right's obivious cry for attention on this subject. Let the religious psychos cry, bitch, and bellow all they want. Being ignored is the last thing they want (hasn't anyone figured this out yet).
And no one should really give a flying f*ck what anyone else calls the season holiday. Just for one day out of the year, everyone needs to drop the asshole act and be nice to their fellow man/woman.
Lynnianaa @ 70:
Ya know what? Good for them. For me, however, I like the inclusionary feel of Happy Holidays. I don't always know who's jewish around me or I forget. I don't know who's christian and not. Perhaps it's just my lazy way wishing joy and a humble thanks to everyone around me the last few weeks of the year.
I just want everyone to be happy.
This means, however, I expect the companies I frequent with my money to do the same. I'm looking at you Target. I don't like seeing Merry Christmas less Hanuka or Kwanza (has Kwanza run it's course? - I never quite got with that.) when I'm shopping or in public places. I don't want to be associated with anything that makes people feel other or less than.
When individuals wish me Merry Christmas I find my common response is, "how do you know I'm not jewish?"
I don't want everyone to be just like me or pretend to be just like me - that would be excruciatingly boring!
www.theskinofmyteeth.com
David B.
Liberty Council, Focus on the Family, and WorldNetDaily have clearly one agenda: establishment of a state religion.
Be touched by his noodley appendage during this festive season.
Reminds me, as I'm overseas, I'd better get my Xmas cards started, so I can wish everyone happy holidays, in time for the big shindig.
Back when we all, or some of us, looked forward to the sights and sounds of Christmas for 11 months, that made it more fun and gave us all more Christmas spirit. Now that Christmas seems to begin at the end of October, by the time Christmas actually arrives, well, we are just about tired of it.
BTW don't forget Zappadan is right around the corner. Maybe if we have a war on Zappadan we'll sell a few more t-shirts (to benefit Electronic Frontier Foundation, not me).
personally, i will be glad when this whole christian fad is over--
Please say NO to all catalogues. Canada's boreal forest is being chopped down to make consumer catalogues. It is one of our few protections against global warming, along with the Amazon rainforest and Russia's boreal forest.
Squeaky Wheels @ 64:
It could be if the christians would STOP ATTACKING FOLKS.
Lynnianaa @ 70:
So... let people call it what they want, and stop with this campaign, and forget about issuing “Christmas Defense Kits” .
It's interesting that the article starts with a reference to Halloween.The first war on a holiday, largely successful, was one instigated by the Religious Right to remove Halloween from the classroom on the grounds that it encouraged Devil worship. The religious origin long forgotten, it was simply a chance to come to school in costume and read scary stories when I was growing up in the 50's and early 60's. It's disappearance in schools was the RR first success during it's initial ascendancy in the Regan days. I guess religious holidays like people aren't all created equally.
Happy Holidays and a Merry New Year....Now will that guy up there in the
sky(NOT referring to Santa), please do some Worldly Good and bring Peace,
Bring our troops Home, and put a stop to the starvation around the World.
Come on BIG GUY, you can do it, can't you???
I'm giving small amounts of money to charity in people's name this year. Food banks for my brother and sister in law, Pasado's Safe Haven (animal rescue) for my sis. You can buy livestock for families in 3rd world countries in the name of friends and family as well. I personally have enough and need nothing else. But I have to stifle a lot of 'WANT' for unnecessary shit.
I never get a tree, and I never do decorations. Fuck Xmas, and Fuck FOX 'News' and its intendant evil spawn. Happy fucking debt making Holidays, Sheep.
miss_kitty @ 83:
Does miss kitty need to be scratched behind the ears? ;)
allllllright Fox.....
let's watch two hotties making out when Bush invades Iran.
I will get the popcorn.
No Hanukkah? No Sikh holidays? No Kwanza? It has to be Christmas?
Seems kinda racist and anti semitic to me.
CD @ 28:
Personally, I don't think so. But silence is complicity, and I've heard all too few voices complaining about these Dominionist slimeballs highjacking Christianity in the public mind. Until that happens, I really, really have to work at finding sympathy for the average Christian, even those I love, when it comes to them feeling unfairly lumped in with the bat$#!+ likes of Fred Phelps and Pat Robertson. Understand that I mostly have very happy memories of Sunday School, and that going back to the tiny church where my parents were married and my sister and I were baptized feels like a homecoming, and not just because my relatives still attend. So I'm hardly anti-Christian. I'm just sick of these @$$hats playing the persecution card every time someone doesn't feed their insecurities by worshiping the same idols they have set up. And the fact that they sugar over their hate-mongering, theocratic agenda in such sanctimonious names pisses me off even more. But the fact that honest, peace-loving Christians can't grow a pair and organize enough to toss these bullies off the bus before they drive it off the cliff pisses me off the most.
So assuming that you're actually a Christian and not just playing Devil's Advocate (no irony intended), here's a question for you: What have you done to take back God and Jesus from those who have cast Them in their own hate-filled, capitalist image? Because until you do, you're going down in the same battered ship, PR-wise.
cubiclegrrl @ 87:
I've been at every major War Protest in the County for the last Year.
I've posted dozens of vids on Youtube.
And believe it or not I'm writing a book.
I have a simple proposition to all of us that believe we have no place to pull all of this mess together and demand action. There are many great websites that allow us to get together and voice our concerns, but I don't see that too many have really listened to our complaints. Well, I know we can change that. What if we decided to start not only a blogging site similiar to this and other decent sites, but took it a step further. Working in unison, we could actually create an action calander, come together, and demand that our grievences be herd and addressed. I know, it sounds complicated and off base, but what has been happening is nothing short of sheer stupidity. Just a thought, hell, I will lead the way,just get in touch with me. Its time to take back the airwaves and our government, which it is ours, not theirs for the raping. Thanks.
Great deal, CD--and kudos to you. Consider me impressed--and genuinely happy to someone else who doesn't shy away from standing up to the megalomaniacs who put the "bully" in "bully pulpit". Hope that you'll share the book title when it comes out.
The "War on Christmas" -isn't that the one where Bill O'Reilly earned his purple heart?
Seriously, there is no "War on Christmas".
If anything, there's a "War on Halloween"
Didn't millionaire evangelist Pat Robertson (a man with essentially no hope of squeezing his fat head through the eye of the needle) just declare no Christian ought to celebrate Halloween 'cause it's E-V-I-L?
It's always amusing to me that xian spirituality and religious belief is SO fragile that it can't withstand a neutral seasonal greeting. How sad is that? So does an angel lose it's wings every time someone says "happy holiday"?
I certainly hope so. That would be hilarious.
Unless someone is an xian they have NO obligation to give a damn about the ridiculous needs of the pathetic xian cult.
Sorry but out of my top 10 important issues this one is maybe number 57.
geeezzz not again........ALREADY?....wtf....
CD @ 28:
Where is the voice of "rational" Christians???? I haven't heard a peep.
everybody I knew thought this was ridiculous ..LAST TIME......surely this will turn and bite them on the ass.
cubiclegrrl @ 90:
You're too kind.
I wish I could do more.
bloody jesus on a barbecue with a stick up his ass slathered in hollandaise sauce!
Another load of bullshit that invariably accompanies the "War on Christmas" is the infamous statistic that conservatives are actually much more generous in giving than are liberals......they have some statistics that some douchebag published in a book I think last year.
Here's the thing. If anyone should happen to encounter this turkey, the thing to do is come to a consensus of how much of the conservative "gifting' goes into THEIR OWN PERSONAL religious institution.......don't accept any answer less than "the vast majority".
Then point out how in doing that, they are basically just SELF SERVING. Depending on how vicious you want to be (there are probably ways to "soften" this) , you can point out that donating to your own church is little more than analogous to paying county club dues. After all, doesn't the vast majority of donation by necessity go into paying for, having and climate controlling a (in some cases) fifty thousand square foot facility, appropriate staffing, activities, prosthelatizing........all for their own PERSONAL usage and gain. The country club is there for THEIR golf, and the church is there for THEIR religion.
Invariably they will start to point out good works.....food drives and the like. Ask them if their country club engaging in the same activites entitles them to be all fucking sanctimonious about the ENTIRITY of financial gifting.
V V
Devils Advocate: (sorta)
I'm not a churchgoer but I have to admit... I grew up in the PC-era. There briefly really was time when the PC fascists insisted on eliminate the word "Christmas" from public discourse. It was a silly and completely self-defeating idea. You don't promote the idea of tolerance and sharing by kicking the most popular guy in the nuts and taping his mouth shut.
Of course that was like a decade ago... yet the faux-outrage continues...
Besides, the true Christians may as well make up a new word for themselves ("Baby Jesus Day" or "Mary's Squirt Fest") because we secular commercialist pigs have your "Christmas" now!! And we AREN'T GIVING IT BACK! MUUUUU-HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAaaaa!! We have returned the tree ritual to its true godless pagan ritual roots! (I hear evergreen tree decoration and worship predates Jesus by quite a bit -- apparently even the ancient Egyptians had hippies.)
Oh that reminds me, I have to go buy some
Chinese toyser....coal... something for the kids for Christmas. But I seriously love a real Christmas tree. The smell of pine warming indoors when it is snowing outside -- awesome. Besides, its a renewable resource... just don't let it dry out, use only LED lights (or none) and be sure to recycle it when you're done (or burn it if you can/must). If you're uncomfortable with that, buy a potted living tree, and plant it when you are done.If the end result of Christmas is we plant more trees... not such a bad outcome to me.
Christmas, well it's nice to have a day to celebrate the birth of the Christ child.
As a Christian I'm more upset at the job of pimping the Christ child for profit that they have assigned to Santa Claus.
Jesus loves me, that's why I bought myself a Mercedes for the CHRISTMAS SESSON.
PEACE ON EARTH YA'LL
the chinese dont believe in xmass just toys
There is a war on Christmas. If you don't believe me ask yourself this question: Why do they chop down all those Cristmas trees every year?
and even curious george has to be returned!!!! :( :( nothing is sacred anymore!!!
Oh, no, it's that season again?
Well it's hard to distinguish it. It comes earlier every year.
I think that Bill should set his sites on the retailors. They totally miss the point of Christmas.
Christmas is not about purchasing the cheapest item for your loved one. But the retailors make it so.
Bill and the others are not worried about Christmas. They are worried about book sales.
These Christmas warriors are so pathetic, and selfserving.
Any fool worth his salt knows that Christmas is simply a
Roman holiday known as Saturnalia, dressed up for the early
Christians, so the Emperor could keep all members of the
different religions happy during December. Instead of the
rabble coming to blows over which God should be honored
both Christians and Pagans were placated by combinding the
2 holidays during late December. The Christian religion is
filled with traditions,, taken from Roman holidays, and modifiied
to keep the christians from revolting. The present day crap
is all meant for partisian political considerations. Of course.
These people don't fart without considering political gain over
the opposition. Pathetic.
My War on Christmas Card to the World
Namaste
Christmas: Symbolic birthday of the Prince of Peace. An ancient holy day to commemorate the return of the Sun and hope for the rebirth of Spring from the long fallow night of Winter.
D'ya think that if no one buys anything they'll finally get the idea that the consumer society is in deep weeds?
I'm staying out of the malls but I'm going to partake of the good food and drink and the cozy atmosphere holiday lighting provides. I definitely needs me some cozy atmosphere after the seven years of hell we've experienced.
Last year I got a chain email from a sortof friend. It was a neo-con hacked version of the Christmas poem ‘The Night Before Christmas’ and it was so lame and had the obligatory Clinton reference and all, so I looked on the Internets to find one that I could quickly send back but I couldn’t locate a liberal version on The Googles.
So I wrote one. Like to hear it? Here it goes:
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‘Twas the Month Before X-Box and all through the land,
the fake War on Christmas went according to plan.
It’s always the same, no matter the facts.
Fake Christians whine that they’re under attack!
Say “Merry Christmas” they shriek, or we’ll boycott your stores.
We’ll go on Fox News and call you all whores!
We’ll go on talk radio and create such a clatter,
to distract and divide you so nothing else matters.
And they conquer and divide us in all sorts of ways,
so that no one will notice how well their crime pays.
They run up our debts, with deficits galore.
While they cut their own taxes and stomp on our poor.
They preach Peace On Earth, and Good Will Towards Man.
But they dream of warprofits, and invading Iran.
And with war in Iraq, and more dead every day,
their biggest concern is whether you’re gay.
But the whole War On Christmas is just this month’s ploy,
to profit from anger like Sears profits from toys.
And if Jesus was born in this day and age,
He’d die of starvation, on minimum wage.
But if He survived and grew to a man,
they’d call Him liberal and toss His Book in the can.
They’d call Him a commie, a pinko and worse,
then slap both His cheeks and send Him off with a curse.
They’d sue Him in court to trademark His name,
and sell Him on Wall Street for money and fame.
So for this “War on Christmas,” don’t shy from the fight
Tell them “talk's cheap, and DO what is right.”
‘Cause He belongs in our hearts, not up on some wall.
Not stamped upon money, or in City Hall.
He knows us by deeds, not by prayers that we shout.
What we DO unto others, is what it’s about.
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Feel free to share it with a wingnut chainmailer.
M. Kulper @ 110:
Nice one
Bravo, M. Kulper. I have a couple of people on my list who need to see this.
CD @ 84:
Does miss kitty need to be scratched behind the ears? ;)
Jeez I guess I'm miss Crabby Pants these days... :)
miss_kitty @ 113:
Jeez I guess I'm miss Crabby Pants these days... :)
Anyone who isn't a Crabby Pants these days isn't paying attention.
hope @ 114:
Anyone who isn't a Crabby Pants these days isn't paying attention.
I've got to admit, my crabbiness stems from paying attention to what's going on... :mad:
The "War on Christmas" gimmick has been effective for the Fox News Network. By citing several specific examples of anti Christmas outrages, Bill O'Reilly has effectively created the illusion of a nationwide epidemic of an anti Christian, godless, atheistic rampage every Christmas season. I applaud Billo and Fox for their innovative ratings-grabbing savvy.
Fuck Christmas! I really am dreading the day after thanksgiving because that's when all the good little lemmings will be told they need to storm into SlaveMart and stomp each other damn near to death just to get a couple of bucks off the latest toxic, Made In China bullshit. Dec 26th cant get here fast enough for me.
John @ 93:
I plan on contemplating it (deeply) in my next incarnation.
Is there anything more delightful than listening to Bing Crosby sing White Christmas on a snowy evening in late December? I think not.
mrogi @ 119:
I'd rather shoot a dime bag of heroin than listen to Bing Crosby.
Fox does the Henry Ford in the "International Jew" fake war on christmas every year to make the mouth-breathers forget their kids are being priced out of going to college by Bush's economic policies
fwacbar @ 17:
fuck yeah!
mrogi @ 116:
FOX news isn't innovative, they just understand how gullible and paranoid the right wing truly is. Their paranoia is worse than that of the extreme paranoia on the left as the righty-tighties base their fear on faith.
Sigh...
The war on Xmas gets earlier and earlier each year. Next year they'll start before Halloween and have a half price fatwa before December 15th.
I'm sure Jesus would take joy in honoring his birthday by changing money into holiday gift cards.
"Jesus entered the Temple area and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves. 'It is written,' he said to them, 'My house will be called a house of prayer but you are making it a den of robbers.'" Matthew 21:12-13
My mother loved Christmas and was a devout Christian but it never would have occurred to her to get her knickers all in a twist over someone wishing her "Happy Holidays" rather than "Merry Christmas". I think she would have been much more interested in finding out why Faux News with their faux issues is still being played on every restaurant, hotel, and airport tv.
All ultra-orthodox religious fundamentalists = Terrorists-In-Training.
And they all start young, taught to be Terrorists-In-Training by ultra-orthodox religious fundamentalist preachers, pastors, rabbis, mullahs, priests, whoever, who terrorize people with stories of hell-fire and eternal damnation, pumping up the fear, promoting terror, so their little Terrorists-In-Training can go forth and multiply, and spread the terror far and wide, all to control the masses, to subjugate, to enslave.
I'm not fooled.
The so-called "War on Christmas" actually is just part of the right-wing plot to turn our nation into another theocratic hell-hole, a "War on Christmas" sleight-of-hand hatched by Terrorists-In-Training, like Jerry Falwell, who in 1979 issued his own version of a fatwa (similar to the one issued by the Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, too) against our democracy, against our Constitution, against our Bill of Rights.
So, all ultra-orthodox religious fundamentalists are all the same --- Terrorists-In-Training.
Besides, I love the acronym this creates, TITs, because we all know the obsession all ultra-orthodox religious fundamentalists have with actual tits. In their case, these right-wing TITs suckle on the terrorist tits of their terrorism-promoting masters, not once realizing how poisonous the TITs propaganda really is...to their souls.
In the infamous words of Charlie Brown: GOOD GRIEF!
This be 'merica, and I's gone lay it down. 'Kinky Kwanzaa' is DE holiday greeting.
I don’t get it. How can “war” on a fairy tale — ANY fairy tale — be something to take seriously, let alone go ballistic over?
“Coming up at 11, Stu Jackson will tell us about what some call The War on Alice in Wonderland. Which cherished traditions are in jeopardy? The talking burning bush, or the female pillar of salt? Stay tuned!”
Dobson's efforts will be in vain. We will prevail in this war. Xmas will be destroyed. I've already picked out a branch that looks like antlers and strapped it to my dog's head. There will be no roast beast this time. Please donate to the United Elf College Fund, so that North Pole elves who slave away for pennies a day can go to school and be dentists.
With the economy in the dumper..I don' think it's going to be Merry for the retailers..regardless of whether they piss off the yahoos or not...If the Yahoos did a little research x-mas used to be considered a Pagan ceremony
I am giving all my friends,Christopher Hitchens book god is not Great for xmas. Happy Holidays.
medlakeguy @ 98:
Happy Hollandais!!
It's that time of year agian? Meet you at "Osama's homobortion pot and commie jizporium".
ysbaddaden @ 54:
What?
I didn't even get a chance to have a drink before the war?
Only republicans could make "Merry Christmas" into a "fuck you" type of comment.
Barbara Key @ 135:
mrogi @ 119:
MIke Z @ 122:
I got this holiday album with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts cover of The Little Drummer Boy, the Dickies cover of Silent Night, the Ramones Merry Christmas Baby (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight), a totally thrashed out version of Feliz Navidad, and an original whose band I can't remember, I Wanna Be Your Christmas Fag, which included interesting things you can do with peppermint sticks.
Good thing Jesus wasn't born in the small Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Could you imagine, the Christmas carols would be a bitch.
Are those using "Xmas" instead of "Christmas" part of an insurgency?
LanceThruster @ 141:
What do you think?
LanceThruster @ 141:
I think the insurgency is Christians Against Abbreviations ( ) IRNI and IXOYE you're next.
DiamondMC @ 142:
Cheesy crust! It's all becoming so very clear! Lord, tell me who to smite and I shall smiteth them!
2cents @ 143:
Something is indeed "fishy."
miss_kitty @ 115:
I've got to admit, my crabbiness stems from paying attention to what's going on... :mad:
*Tackle hugs da kitty*
LanceThruster @ 144:
beverins @ 137:
Indeed. It now embodies the same scorn and derisiveness as when I'm told, "I'll pray for you."
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