FAKE persecution

[luvMIdog]

What is this Merry Christmas nonsense all about?? It's about FAKE persecution. Fake persecution is what you claim when the truth is you are really busy persecuting others and want to look victimized while doing so.

Instead of Merry Christmas I'll be saying 'Seasons Greetings' this year. I always used to say Merry Christmas, but now that Cheeto has brought it up I will no longer be doing so. I'm 60 years old. I can say that for at least 50 years it was common for my family to send and receive Christmas cards that said ' Seasons Greetings!' on them. There was nothing political about that at all. It was just a Christmas greeting. Now that the nutty right has gone all 'FAKE persecution' about it it's being droned on about.

FAKE persecution... it's here it's rampant .. it's a nutty right favorite.

[Archae]

1. Fox "news'" and Bill O'Reilly's "War On Christmas" has it's origins in the 1920's.

At Henry Ford's "Dearborn Independent," the "war on Christmas" was the result in their view of a Jew "conspiracy."

Nowadays these religious kooks and bigots add "Judeo" to their "Christian nation" lies, but it's still the same old, same old.
"We iz a KRISS-CHUN kun-tree!"

One of the loudest of these "Us Christians is being persecuted" liars gave a speech yesterday at the "Value Voter Summit."
Todd Starnes.

[DetlefK]

2. It's not a right-wing thing. Feeling persecuted is a christian tradition.

Christianity started essentially as Judaism-Light: It was an entry for all those who liked the jewish religion but didn't like all their rules.

They were weird, they were a new offshot from the well-known Jews, they were "others". That's where this legend of being persecuted comes from. But there never was this thing of Christians being fed to lions: The Christians made that up. Why?

The Romans were, as a culture, rather jaded, cold and logical. So the christian missionaries needed something to get their interest: They did that by coming up with exciting stories how the Christians are a hunted minority. A bloody tale how your ancestors were killed for their belief, now that makes a good story.