Making a List....

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I can think of a million other things more important then this "War on Christmas" bullshit, religion to me is a waste of energy, time and other resources. This "cultrual War" has been started by Falwellians and other groups that have no purpose other then to make life miseralable for everyone. The War on Christmas iss of their own making, they know we do NOT live in a Theocracy and if thats what they want then perhaps they should all move to Iran.

A little historical recall:
'Jeebus's" birthday was originally celebrated in March, not December. December 25th was a Roman holiday celabrating Helios/Apollo...Well, in typical xtian fashion they had to steal that holiday for themselves and twist its significants. Also, when looking at Helios, one gets the impression that another mythogical character was derived from Helios:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Apollonmosaic.jpg


The “War on Christmas” season started early this year – way back in June. While it hasn’t gotten too much traction yet – apparently people have other things to do – now Jerry Falwell is joining the fight against “anti-Christmas organizations” like the ACLU that want to “steal Christmas.”

In his “Falwell Confidential” e-mail, the Moral Majority co-founder promotes the “Friend or Foe Campaign” run by his affiliated litigation group, Liberty Counsel. Falwell and Liberty Counsel hope to recreate the magic of last year’s holiday season by instigating boycotts of “retailers who ban[] expressions of Christmas” (by saying “Happy Holidays”) and threatening to sue schools or government offices that don’t adhere to the “Merry Christmas”-only lexicon. From the e-mail:

Anita Staver, president of Liberty Counsel, said, “Christmas is constitutional. We cannot allow our religious liberty and heritage to be swept from the public square.”

When enough people learn the truth — that we can celebrate the religious aspects of Christmas — the ACLU and similar “Scrooges” and “grinches” will lose their power to steal Christmas.

Do civil liberties groups have the “power to steal Christmas”? As he wrote last year, Falwell believes there is some kind of conspiracy on the part of “small minority of our fellow citizens” to “obliterate Christmas,” and the “Friend or Foe Campaign” was used to collect supposed evidence of the “War on Christmas” – even when the cases they found turned out to be trumped-up or bogus (see Right Wing Outrage for 12/20/05 for video of Falwell hyping a bogus story). Still, the efforts of Falwell and other Christmas warriors ensured that there was no time of year we were denied the political hysteria of the far Right.

More... http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/10/making_a_list.html
Links available through out article.

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2. There IS no war on Christmas

It's a myth, to scare hyper-Christians into defensive mode. Is that your point? I can't quite tell.

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3. My point is for people to remain aware...

..I cant stand those fuckers, but we have to remain vigilant.

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