War on Christmas

Anyone for a "War on War"?

Not that I'm a peacenik...but it seems so cliche

Personally, I'm all for common sense restraint and moderation...but that doesn't seem as marketable.
There we go again, all about commercialism...

 

I just caught wind of this.

The most recent salvo in the "War on Christmas":

Palin writing 'legalese' book to fight the 'War on Christmas' | The Raw Story

In other news, Sarah Palin is a fucking poet: “And with Benghazi, though, government lied and people died. [...] The other issues are government lied and government spied.”

 

If you are saying that in June, are you early or are you late? *think*

 

It's essentially state legislation based on already established SCOTUS rulings regarding whether religious symbols should be permitted on government property. It's the same workaround, whereby the religious symbol is permissible so long as secular or other religious symbols are present as well. This is a Constitutional workaround, but I can see the problem with the idea of simply paying lip service to non-Christian elements in this situation.

I'm sure many public schools in Texas will continue to be overtly Christian in December despite their being government institutions.

 

Jesus. No one is taking the Christ out of Christmas. They're keeping trying to keep the Christmas out of people's faces. It's entirely different. (It's rather arrogant to think that Christmas is something universal that sweeps the land, no matter where it is.)

"… It’s going to be a great Christmas book. Lots of nice, festive, joyful things within the book, like recipes and traditions of our family that are probably pretty unique because we are from Alaska and live near the North Pole, so we have access to Santa Claus and all the good things that come with Christmas."​

Oh, and something can't be "pretty unique." It's either unique or it's not.

Also, I like how she's worried about people taking the Christ out of Christmas but is fully willing to parade around the pagan albiet Christianized myth of Sinterklaas. Well, of course, because that's what Christians do best: appropriate other cultures to make it their own. Now that non-Christians are "trying to steal Jesus," they're distressed. They're worried about being beaten at their own game.

I think what the atheists et al. have a problem with is that they don't want implied/indirect (if not direct) proselytizing in the public sphere.

Secular folks want the holiday divested from the public sphere, especially in public property such as government areas, in large part because this property is not intended for religious use. It's not like Christians haven't already had it as an official public holiday in most places around the world for a long time, and it does still get a shit-ton of play within consumer society (the lion's share of the public's mind share, mind you). They should be satisfied.

I can't think of anything more ridiculous than an influential member of a populous hegemonic group decrying persecution about something that's not afforded the rest.