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The Wars on Christmas
Submitted by VbroncoAfanB on Tue, 11/20/2007 - 10:19pm.
A post in response to the "letters to the editor" got me thinking today. It was about the "war on Christmas". It does make me sad that there are people trying to make Christmas politically incorrect. Am I the only one that feels sheepish sometimes after cheerfully wishing someone a "Merry Christmas" to receive only a harsh glare?
Yes, Christmas is being assaulted by those who choose to celebrate other holidays, or not celebrate at all (please excuse my generalization as I know this is not universally applicable). That is sad.
But the "War on Christmas" that I'm more concerned about is the war in Iraq that will still be taking place on Christmas. This war was started with a lie, has been funded by the loss of our sovereignty, furthered the cause of facism, and is taking the lives of our citizens. It's time to stop the War... on Christmas.
President Bush, as a Christian man, is going to celebrate Christmas this year in style. I have no doubt that all things will be secured to ensure he is both comfortable and taken care of. He will be thinking about his family and his friends.
On the other side of the world there's a different story. Some of the best men and women that the world has to offer will be celebrating as friends and comrades away from all that they know and love. They will be living and breathing the reality of their own mortality - a fact they face every day. Some will fight that day, and possibly give their life for... what?
This war has gone on too long. We have given the government a liscence to deal in generalities. We must have a specific and thorough plan for total withdrawl. The best Christmas present we, as a country, and the service men and women could receive is at very least a solid plan.
This war is a nice Christmas present to the Big Money that backs the facist Bush regime. They win and we all lose.
Dear Santa,
I've been a good boy all year long. I've tried my best not to be a liar or a hypocrite. I have't cheated, or stolen, and I try to love my neighbor. And so I ask with great fervor for the gift I desire more than anything else this year.
I want peace for Christmas.
But I don't want a cheap immitation, made-in-China version of peace, I want the real thing. I want the war to end, I want the facists out of office, and I want my rights back.
If you can't give me peace, will you please give me the courage to speak out against the oppression?
Love,
Vbron
I'd Sure Like to Know
who these people are who are waging a war on Christmas. I have a hunch the glare you got had nothing to do with saying Merry Christmas to someone. Unless he was a complete boor, but then, why would you care?
There is no war on Christmas. It's manufactured outrage and a yearly short term controversy and it means nothing. Except perhaps more excuses for Christians to assume the victim role, and more bewilderment for the rest of us. I LOOOOVE Christmas and Christmas carols and giving and receiving and stockings hung by the fire with care. Who doesn't?
As for your statements about Bush and the war: right on! I hope Santa brings you your wishes.
Thank you, Coultergeist!
See, there's some things we can agree on!
Tell that to poor Greyghost...
: )
How did I get in this?
Poor? You are the one who can't afford a home because you're living on fairy Larry dust. You voted for him twice? Traveling down that old dirt road stirred up the fairy dust, now you're choking on it.
I heard you & Larry were out in San Francisco holding hands on the dock of the bay. A police offier came up & said "hey, you can't do that here." Larry said, "What? We're just watching the ships come in." Suddenly Foreignoregonian says "look, here comes a ferry boat." Then Larry says, "I didn't know we had our own navy."
You keep responding.
You keep responding.
Count the responses by yourself from the top down
idiot. If you lost any fingers in that accident that left you in a daze of fairy dust, you can't count them all.
WOW!
You're a twit! Your only purpose here is to insult me.
Oscar time!
Do you repair tube radios?
Are you a mole?
Do you have any dignity?
Does this make you pleased?
Do you have a real name?
Do you know when you've lost any advantage and I still have no idea why?
The "war on Christmas"
wasn’t evident within the public display at the Borah Station Post Office downtown this year. Butch and his wife put Christmas on display for all to see on our public property. Separation of church and state certainly isn’t a cause d’jour here in Boise.
The rhetoric of “America is a Christian country” slams hard against our push for other countries to be more secular in their approach. We are frightened to death of the possibility of Theocracy taking hold in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, the West Bank and Iraq. But we cozy up to the Saudis and turn a blind eye to their Theocratic Wahabiism…. Would be laughable if it wasn't so ironic.
Some of the oldest Christian communities in the world are in Iraq. Assyrian Christians. They have lived mostly with relative calm among the Moslems there for two thousand years. But since we “freed” Iraq they are living in fear for their lives. Talk about an assault on Christmas. If you believe that our occupation of Iraq and the “war on terror” has nothing to do with this new repression of Christians there, you are naive.
When they gone done...
shootin' everybody then we won't have that problem. Don't pry over spilt ilk.
Who
are "they" and who is "everybody"?
Who...
cares. It's a blog.