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War on Christmas

WMAWMA Posts: 175
edited November 2007 in A Moving Train
Since it is November, it is almost time for our annual War on Christmas.

Everybody get your wallets ready, and be sure to practice saying Happy Holidays in a very clear and sarcastic manner. We can win this!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays all. ;)

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20071028/NEWS/710280325/-1/NEWS03
Christmas promotions seem to come earlier and earlier every year and with them - that's right - the dubious "War on Christmas."

This phony battle, blown all out of proportion the last few years, mostly by right-wing organizations and commentators trying to stir up trouble and promote books and themselves, already has been joined this year, even before the first trick-or-treater knocks on the first door.

To wit:

"Get your Christmas-defense kit" reads an article in WorldNetDaily, a conservative Web site, which says the bumper stickers, magnets and bracelets the site is hawking will help you "Fight off the ACLU grinches this holiday season - in style." (Funny they don't say this Christmas season, isn't it?)

Anyway, the article says, "It's coming! You know it's coming. Like clockwork, the American Civil Liberties Union grinches will be out in force punishing those erecting Nativity displays, extending Christmas greetings and otherwise exercising their God-Given, First Amendment-protected rights to freedom of speech and freedom of religion."

"But you can fight back - and you don't need a lawyer to do it," WorldNetDaily says.

How?

Well, by buying your "Christmas-defense kit" from the site's online store.

That's right, for just $5.95 each - all three for only $14.95! - you can get these charming messages to put on your Hummer's bumper:

n "It's STILL a wonderful life - Merry Christmas!"

n "Merry Christmas! An American Tradition"

n "This is America! And I'm going to say it: 'Merry Christmas!'"
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  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    its great that people can ridicule and demean christmas but say something about allah or islam? well you know what happens then.
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    We've had christmas decorations on the shelves of our local supermarket for at least three weeks..

    Yesterday I noticed them putting out the mince pies and plum pudding...

    Who eats these things in November?
    A human being that was given to fly.

    Wembley 18/06/07

    If there was a reason, it was you.

    O2 Arena 18/09/09
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    happy festivus!!

    :D
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    cutback wrote:
    happy festivus!!

    :D

    festivus for the restivus
  • 810wmb810wmb Posts: 849
    jlew24asu wrote:
    its great that people can ridicule and demean christmas but say something about allah or islam? well you know what happens then.

    the truth!
    i'm the meat, yer not...signed Capt Asshat
  • urbanhippieurbanhippie Posts: 3,007
    I love Christmas....but I can understand that people get pissed off at having it forcefed to them from the end of September onwards...

    It's supposed to be a time for family and friends to express how they fell about each other, instead the focus is on who spends the most on their loved ones...
    A human being that was given to fly.

    Wembley 18/06/07

    If there was a reason, it was you.

    O2 Arena 18/09/09
  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    I never really understood this whole war on Christmas thing. Yes people should be allowed to celebrate whatever they want, but if I was a business owner why would I alienate a significant portion of the population by only mentioning one holiday in a time when there are lots of different holidays being celebrated by a lot of different groups.

    As far as the government goes, government should be inclusive not exclusive. Go ahead put up a Christmas tree at government buildings but if you do you should throw up a Menorah as well and what ever other holiday symbols are appropriate.
  • fuckfuck Posts: 4,069
    jlew24asu wrote:
    its great that people can ridicule and demean christmas but say something about allah or islam? well you know what happens then.

    comparing christmas to allah or islam makes no sense whatsoever. if you said eid or even ramadan it'd make a little bit more sense.

    the problem with christmas is that these days people forget what it's "supposed" to mean and just go for the presents and stuff.

    atleast most muslims see ramadan and eid as a holy aspect of their year and stuff.
  • blackredyellowblackredyellow Posts: 5,889
    jlew24asu wrote:
    its great that people can ridicule and demean christmas but say something about allah or islam? well you know what happens then.

    Who's demeaning christmas? I think we all should demean the over-commercialization of christmas, but I don't see anyone demeaning the actual holiday or the true meaning behind it.

    The over-PC crowd has tried to take away a lot of the public symbols of christmas, but that's all I can see.
    My whole life
    was like a picture
    of a sunny day
    “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
    ― Abraham Lincoln
  • GalianaGaliana Posts: 554
    This is America and I'm going to say it...Happy Winter Solstice!
    Don't threaten me with a good time.
  • Uncle LeoUncle Leo Posts: 1,059
    Oh dear god. Can we at least wait 'till thanksgiving before the war on christmas banter starts?
    I cannot come up with a new sig till I get this egg off my face.
  • GalianaGaliana Posts: 554
    That's the next thing...they'll try to prevent people from calling it "Turkey Day." You're supposed to be giving thanks to God on that day, not gorging on stuffing and pumpkin pie and football.
    Don't threaten me with a good time.
  • hippiemomhippiemom Posts: 3,326
    blackredyellow wrote:
    Who's demeaning christmas? I think we all should demean the over-commercialization of christmas, but I don't see anyone demeaning the actual holiday or the true meaning behind it.
    Clearly the folks at WorldNetDaily aren't concerned about commercialization, since they want you to defend Christmas by buying three over-priced bumper stickers.
    "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    The 'War On Christmas' does not exist. No one is stopping you from saying 'Merry Christmas'... or putting a nativity scene on your lawn. We just don't want your made in China, lead laced, plastic baby Jesus in our public (tax paid) domains. If you want to put that shit there... figure out a way that gets me off the hook for paying taxes to those places... pay the taxes yourself... and put up what ever religious bullshit you want.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • floyd1975floyd1975 Posts: 1,350
    Galiana wrote:
    That's the next thing...they'll try to prevent people from calling it "Turkey Day." You're supposed to be giving thanks to God on that day, not gorging on stuffing and pumpkin pie and football.

    Damn you...now you have us on the road to the crazy people banning Thanksgiving too.
  • inmytreeinmytree Posts: 4,741
    hippiemom wrote:
    Clearly the folks at WorldNetDaily aren't concerned about commercialization, since they want you to defend Christmas by buying three over-priced bumper stickers.

    bah humbug, where's your christmas spirit...don't you know the current notion of xmas is buying overpriced trinkets and gadgets and giving them to someone with high hopes of getting a flat screen tv in return...
  • AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,560
    It's "Natalis Sol Invictus".

    Became "Winter Solstice"

    Then "Christmas", now "Holidays"

    The first two have the word SOL in them for a very good reason. Dec. 25 is the birth of the new sun (not son). On Dec 22 the sun is at it's lowest point on the horizon, it stays for 3 days, then begins to rise again on Dec. 25.

    The war on Sol Invictus started a long time ago, the most prominant soldier against it was probably Constantine.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Ahnimus wrote:
    It's "Natalis Sol Invictus".

    Became "Winter Solstice"

    Then "Christmas", now "Holidays"

    The first two have the word SOL in them for a very good reason. Dec. 25 is the birth of the new sun (not son). On Dec 22 the sun is at it's lowest point on the horizon, it stays for 3 days, then begins to rise again on Dec. 25.

    The war on Sol Invictus started a long time ago, the most prominant soldier against it was probably Constantine.
    ...
    Forget it. You are never going to convince some people who know that Jesus was born on December 25, 0000... under the Christmas tree in the manger... as Santa and his reindeer look over Him.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • pj10alive42pj10alive42 Posts: 381
    jlew24asu wrote:
    its great that people can ridicule and demean christmas but say something about allah or islam? well you know what happens then.

    Jesus, Allah, God, Muhammad?...they all just need to back to imagination land and then when we nuke our imaginations they will be gone forever!

    Christ is cuming and So am I, and you would too if the sexy devil caught your eye...she'll suck you dry.
    I'm trying to drink away the part of the day I cannot sleep away...
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    pj10alive42 wrote:
    Jesus, Allah, God, Muhammad?...they all just need to back to immagination land and then when we nuke our immaginations they will be gone forever!

    Christ is coming and So am I, and you would too if the sexy devil caught your eye...she'll suck you dry.

    :D:D:D

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • MahoganySoulsMahoganySouls Posts: 357
    HAHAHA, Christmas. Another marketing ploy to the masses. Man, I should invent a holiday...then you could all celebrate and pay me!
    "When you're climbing to the top, you'd better know the way back down" MSB
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Festivus
    For the Restofus

    Pure gold!
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
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