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Religions > Atheism |
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"Jason Spaceman" |
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13 Dec 2005 07:04:30 AM |
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Columnist: It's a holiday persecution complex |
From the article:
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Leonard Pitts Jr. - Miami Herald
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Let me begin by speaking the forbidden words.
Merry Christmas.
There, I said it. So did the sky crack? Did the oceans turn to blood? Is a horde
of angry Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and atheists storming the gates, demanding a
retraction? Or does the world look much the same as it did before?
I'm betting on the last.
So forgive me if I don't take up arms in the so-called War on Christmas. In case
you hadn't heard about it ? in other words, in case you have a life ? let me
bring you up to speed.
Recently, conservative and evangelical observers have been loudly complaining
about what they call a campaign to de-Christianize Christmas, to unmoor it from
its origin as the birthday of Christ. They have a litany of complaints, but
seem particularly vexed by word that some retailers have been instructing their
sales people to greet customers with "Happy holidays" as opposed to "Season's
greetings." This, as a way to avoid excluding people of other faiths and no
faith at all.
It's been a heated battle and the complainers have not been guilty of
understatement.
"A secular and atheistic jihad," cries a guy named David Huntwork on the GOPUSA
Web site.
"Frightening," declares a traumatized Bill O'Reilly.
"A war on Christians," claims John Gibson, who wrote a book on the subject.
And a writer on the WorldNetDaily Web site warns of the possible "persecution
and outright criminalization of Christianity."
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Read it at
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/13/its_holiday_persecution_complex/?syndicated
J. Spaceman
--
My email address (notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org) is fake. Email sent to it
will only get caught in my spam tarpit.
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| User: "Kate " |
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| Title: Re: Columnist: It's a holiday persecution complex |
13 Dec 2005 09:45:06 AM |
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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 08:04:30 -0500, Jason Spaceman
<notreally@jspaceman.homelinux.org> wrote:
From the article:
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Leonard Pitts Jr. - Miami Herald
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Let me begin by speaking the forbidden words.
Merry Christmas.
There, I said it. So did the sky crack? Did the oceans turn to blood? Is a horde
of angry Jews, Muslims, Buddhists and atheists storming the gates, demanding a
retraction? Or does the world look much the same as it did before?
I'm betting on the last.
So forgive me if I don't take up arms in the so-called War on Christmas. In case
you hadn't heard about it ? in other words, in case you have a life ? let me
bring you up to speed.
Recently, conservative and evangelical observers have been loudly complaining
about what they call a campaign to de-Christianize Christmas, to unmoor it from
its origin as the birthday of Christ. They have a litany of complaints, but
seem particularly vexed by word that some retailers have been instructing their
sales people to greet customers with "Happy holidays" as opposed to "Season's
greetings." This, as a way to avoid excluding people of other faiths and no
faith at all.
It's been a heated battle and the complainers have not been guilty of
understatement.
"A secular and atheistic jihad," cries a guy named David Huntwork on the GOPUSA
Web site.
"Frightening," declares a traumatized Bill O'Reilly.
"A war on Christians," claims John Gibson, who wrote a book on the subject.
And a writer on the WorldNetDaily Web site warns of the possible "persecution
and outright criminalization of Christianity."
-----------------------------------------------
Read it at
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/13/its_holiday_persecution_complex/?syndicated
Abusive disfunctionality - an old tactic. You make up stuff to be
angry about and blame other people for, so people don't pay attention
to all the bad things you do.
The more the republicans do this, the more they are frightened of what
you will pay attention to.
The bad thing is, usually people like this are quite willing to
destroy their own home, their world and their families to keep
attention from their real sins.
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