LOL This county is so pathetic.... the majority is getting persecuted apparently

[TwixVoy]

So after seeing one of those "attack on christmas" losers yesterday I did some research to see exactly what they were up to this year.

When I was still working at Target last year I had one person (that I can remember) complain to me that we didn't have enough christmas things in the store. I pretended like anyone actually cared about his concern and gave him a comment card to mail in.

But the absolute WORST thing these people do is go around and harass minimum wage retail workers about this. So guess what? Now they have a web site dedicated to doing just that. Standforchristmas.com It has a scary number of people posting about their little escapades at the local retailer.

So apparently the christian MAJORITY is being persecuted.... and according to many of the posts on that site they are being persecuted by muslims in this country. WTF????? There are hundreds of posts on their Best Buy board saying they will not shop at Best Buy anymore because they mentioned a muslim holiday in their ad. WTF????

Then there are tons of posts from freaks who refuse to shop at Gap because they mentioned a Jewish holiday in the same ad as Christmas was mentioned. Again WTF????

Are these cowards really SO scared of anyone who isn't like them?

Now the absolute most pathetic thing about these people is the fact they seem to focus exclusively on retailers. Don't they realize this holiday they claim to care so much about has NOTHING to do with buying a surround sound system at Best Buy? Don't they realize it has nothing to do with Wal-mart having the word "Christmas" on the front door?

Apparently some of these people think the local Target store should be a church one month out of the year.

So back in the 1700's this country was declaring independence and fighting a life and death struggle for freedom.

Fast forward to today and americans seem to think a great patriotic struggle is hassling a minimum wage cashier at Target about a lack of cheap Chinese made christmas graphics around the store.

God how pathetic we have become.

[geckosfeet]

1. They are small minded large mouthed whining weenies. As you allude to,

these charitable xtians should be more concerned for the welfare of minimum wage earners with no health care. The fact that they are not is indicative of their truer beliefs.

[TwixVoy]

3. I need to cash in next year

Next year I need to make a web site called Where-Would-Jesus-Shop.com and charge these people $5 each for my personal list of stores Jesus would most likely shop at.

How much you want to bet I would bring in at least $50,000 from these fools?

[a kennedy]

20. could a cross check be done with the tea baggers??? the birthers???

the Palin supporters, all things far right winged??? just a guess. :eyes:

[mattomjoe]

2. Hell, even the Grinch figured it out at the end!

"perhaps Christmas doesn't come from a store, perhaps Christmas means a little bit more!" (paraphrasing)

I mean, what the hell is wrong with this people?

Seriously.

[MerryBlooms]

18. People like those on that site

can't function unless they have a target for their hate. After the holidays, their hate will shift back to their usual targets - Dems, women's rights, GLBT, etc ...

[Kerrytravelers]

4. It's sad when a mind is so simplistic that they think they are a soldier in the War for Christmas.

I think this graphic sums up the Christian Reich nicely:

[mwb970]

7. It is amazing that they hear "Happy holidays" as a grievous insult.

As if saying "Happy holidays" (whether to include all religions or simply to include New Year's Day) is the meanest, nastiest thing that any America-hating liberal could possibly spew into the face of a true-blue conservative.

:crazy:

Well gosh, wackaloons. If you want to hear something much worse and even more insulting than "Happy holidays", try accusing me of waging your idiotic "War on Christmas"!

A friendly seasonal greeting is heard as a cruel insult by bedwetting crybabies. Does anything more perfectly capture the insanity and grotesque immaturity that is the modern conservative movement?

:eyes:

[Kerrytravelers]

12. My poor dad, who is Christian, but not a member of the Christian Reich, asks me every year:

"What is ok to say again? Happy Christmas? Merry Holiday? I can't keep up."

I always tell him, "Dad, say whatever you want to say. If someone doesn't like it, just walk away."


Normal people like my Dad aren't afraid by their intimidation tactics, he just has better things to do with his time than try to reason with the unreasonable and rationalize with the irrational.

[mwb970]

15. I just can't past the idea that a friendly greeting is perceived as an insult.

It's like if you told someone to "have a nice day" and they punched you in the face because "nice" strikes them as being some code word meaning "I hate you" and you were supposed to say "have a great day". You would assume that the person had severe mental problems. And you would be right!

[Mugweed]

5. Meanwhile, it took me forever to find a decent menorah.

But Hanukkah doesn't exist to the assholes who think that people who consider the entire season from Thanksgiving through New Years as the "holidays" are actually waging a "war" on Christmas. I wonder if these schmucks would have strung up Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, or Frank Sinatra for singing "Happy Holidays"...

[knitter4democracy]

16. I saw some nice ones at Bronners.

http://bronners.ecommerce-site-search.com/?page=1&query=menorah&in_field=&sort_by_field=&spellcheck=y

It's the largest Christmas store in the world supposedly, and we were just there last weekend. I remember seeing them because my daughter wanted to buy one for one of her friends who's Jewish. They had more in the store than are on the website. There was this pretty wooden one with blue inlay that was the one my daughter picked out.

[zbdent]

6. "because they mentioned a Jewish holiday" ???

I thought the Righties were saying that the "lefties" hated the Jews ...

:silly:

[Kerrytravelers]

14. Shhhh! Don't confuse them.

Let me help you. See, lefties hate the Jews from January through long about the end of October. Then the Christian Reich takes over the duties for two months. We'll get the job back in January.

My question: What is a Lefty Jew suppose to do? Self-hate for ten months each year? :shrug:


:rofl: Oh, my. I left all the religious wars a long time ago. No one messes with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Ramen!

[zbdent]

21. I find it interesting that, in this "nation founded on Christianity" (if you believe the Reichies),

the stereotype is that Jews are all financially successful ...

[calico1]

8. You know..this so called "war on Christmas"

has got to be the most abysmal failure of a war. How many years has it been?

Still people decorate, eat, shop..all in dedication to the season.

I have the fortune of always having known people of diverse backgrounds. And other people celebrate different holidays around this time which are not Christmas.

So why is that so hard for people to comprehend? Why do they get up in arms because God forbid, some of us realize that Christmas is not the only holiday this time of year but that it doesn't mean Christmas celebrations have stopped?

People are idiots. When I run into someone that I think is a "war on Christmas" moron, I purposely wish them "Happy Holidays" just to piss them off.

[NMMNG]

9. They're fighting the good fight

if they berate wage slaves into giving the "proper" gang signs. What good Christian Soldiers they are. :sarcasm:

[iamjoy]

10. I Have Often Pondered

Why these so called "Christian" organizations manufacture a "War on Christmas" and tell their followers that the front line should be the local outlets of mass chain stores.

I don't know much about being a Christian, but I often hear these "Christian" organizations ranting about "Family Values" so I would like to propose my own "War on Christmas"

Big stores often have their big holiday sale the morning after Thanksgiving. Many retailers open in the pre-dawn hours and offer "door busters" that are only available for a limited time (and quantity, too). This encourages people to line up hours in advance to buy a bargain - and many start the afternoon of Thanksgiving. This cuts in to time people should be spending with family on Thanksgiving. Furthermore, many retail employees are prevented from traveling anywhere to visit out of town family on Thanksgiving because they have to be at work before 6am the next day. Boycott Door Busters. Do not shop before 9am. Make sure you write the home office of the company and let them know why you are boycotting their sale and that you want them to honor American families.

Companies should do more to promote family togetherness. Stores should not promote single player video games because they encourage solitary activity rather than something the whole family can do together. Prominently featured gifts should be games that can be played by multiple people and appeal to a wide range of ages. Make sure you write the home office and tell them what you expect to see.

Stores should have displays and music which highlight themes such as love and togetherness. Remember, 1 Corinthians (13:13) tells us "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." Charity is often interpreted as "love" (although not in the romantic sense). Again, if you are not seeing family highlighted at retail stores, write the home office.

I say to write the home office. Do not call and try to speak with the company president or CEO. That never happens, you end up speaking to an administrative assistant who probably deals with enough harassment.

[hobbit709]

11. "Bass Pro Shops is all about Christmas"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[a la izquierda]

13. This is so weird to my husband and I

we grew up in NJ, in a small suburb of NYC. Most of our town was Catholic, Lutheran or maybe Presbyterian; a large percentage was (still is, I guess) Jewish. In elementary school chorus, we sang secular, Christian and Jewish songs for the Holiday concert and played them in band. Was is a big deal? Heck no. I don't remember people complaining, and I've asked my mom, who worked for the schools and was on the PTA-she said no one complained if she recalls correctly. My husband remembers the same (and he lived on the side of town that was more heavily Jewish, mixed with Asian). My family is Catholic and Jewish, so celebrating both Christmas and Hanukkah was totally normal growing up.

Now we live in Oklahoma...and thankfully we don't have kids, because I don't think I could deal with some of these asinine people. But that fear that we're "losing" Christmas is here...shit, in OKC, one of the buildings has its lights turned on in such a way as to display a gigantic cross that can be seen for miles. It's only on from Thanksgiving to New Years.

[knitter4democracy]

17. It's because they need to feel persecuted.

Their pastors pretty much just preach on how persecuted they all are and how sinful they all are and should feel guilty about whatever. Fear and guilt. That's one of the reasons I left that version of the faith and went Orthodox. We know what persecution is, that it's definitely not anything happening to Christians in the US. Until they break out the lions or the waterboards, I'm good.

[Zywiec]

19. It has a scary number of people posting about their little escapades at the local retailer.

The same could be said for the people here who seem to confront a freeper on a daily basis.

:rofl:

[Odin2005]

22. Maybe it's because I didn't grow up in Wacko Fundy Land, but this stuff mystifies me.

:banghead:

[drm604]

23. Notice who runs that site?

Focus on the Family.

I'm convinced that their agenda is less about religion and more about keeping people riled up for political reasons.

[juno jones]

24. They want people to forget that the celebrations of this season

are far older than christianity is.

I remember back in the 70's and 80's when a few of the fundy churches experimented with shitcanning a bunch of holidays. I'm sure a few still do, and they've encroached on halloween, but they never could really put a dent in christmas. IMO, that's why they are now hyper-focused on it, trying to bring it 100% into the christian expression of it.

Fuck 'em. Happy Yule, y'all!

[FarLeftFist]

25. Yes, as we get closer towards 2012 the religious crazies will be out in full force....