With Only Days to Go, War on Christmas Heats Up
Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on how crazy the “War on Christmas” has become:
North Korea is putting South Korea on notice, warning of “unexpected consequences” if Seoul displays Christmas lights near the border. In China last week, government officials and the police smashed the sound equipment of Christians who were about to celebrate Christmas in a village outside Beijing.
Our atheists share the same mindset, if not the same means.
In a South Carolina cancer center, a 67-year-old volunteer Santa was evicted because of the “different cultures and beliefs of the patients we care for”; it later reversed its decision. In an elementary school in Stockton, California, poinsettias were banned but somehow snowmen were permitted; they justified their censorship by saying there was a Sikh temple in the city (note: there is no evidence that Sikhs suffer apoplexy when they see poinsettias, but there is plenty of evidence that cultural fascists enjoy using them as a foil to justify their own intolerance).
A homosexual group on the campus of Washington and Jefferson College succeeded in getting the Dean to approve a condom-decorated Christmas tree. A skeleton St. Nick was found hanging from a cross on the grounds of the Loudoun County Courthouse in Leesburg, Virginia.
Most atheists are not intolerant, but rare is the atheist qua activist who is not. Unfortunately, we don’t have to look overseas to Communist nations to witness this verity. That they show up at Christmastime, as well as at Easter, is proof that their real hatred is of all things Christian.
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The Catholic League sure does get touchy about it's stolen pagan holiday. Then again, I'd probably be irate if the local government wouldn't let me drag my yule log, which was chopped from the largest tree I could find, into city hall. Then set ablaze while I drink mead and ate goat meat for the duration of it's burning.
Every time I see a post from the Catholic League, I know I am in for some random points, but wow, condoms on a christmas tree? Who cares???? Free speech! Let people do what they want.
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First of all, I doubt if the head of a South Carolina cancer center is an atheist. Maybe the head of one in Vermont, but there are very few atheists in South Carolina. To be an atheist in South Carolina (no matter how meet your are as an atheist) is to probably invite death threats. I am not sure how a condom decorated Christmas tree is somehow part of the supposed "war on Christmas". The tree might be in bad taste but nobody's rights were violated, unless Donahue believes he has an absolute right not to have condom decorated trees in the U.S. If so, than Donahue has a weird reading of the First Amendment. Lastly, atheists just want the government to be neutral when it comes to religion. The governments of China and North Korea are actively oppressing the rights of Christians. Just like Christian conservatives want to do with say, Muslims, in Tennesse by opposing their right to build mosques.
Jerome McCollom