War on Christmas
gregladen | December 12, 2007One of our more cunning spies, who shall be known only as "RD.", made his move yesterday to slip under the Christian Radar screen, in a stunningly brave, very public move:
[RD], who has expressed hopes of converting religious believers to atheism through his international bestseller [deleted], made the comments while fielding open questions on religion and debating with conservative MP Mark Pritchard.
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"This is historically a Christian country. I'm a cultural Christian in the same way many of my friends call themselves cultural Jews or cultural Muslims," Oxford biologist [deleted] said on…
gregladen | December 12, 2007From Austin Cline.
What are the Christmas Wars?:
In his infamous tract "The International Jew," Henry Ford wrote "The whole record of the Jewish opposition to Christmas, Easter and other Christian festivals, and their opposition to certain patriotic songs, shows the venom and directness of [their] attack." The John Birch Society complained that the "Godless UN" was conspiring against Christmas. Today, conservatives claim that secularists and liberals are trying to replace Christmas. The enemy changes, but it's still the same conspiracy story.
Foot soldiers in the war on Chrismas, you must…
gregladen | December 12, 2007This just in:
Days after its publication, a largely positive review of The Golden Compass that appeared in Catholic newspapers across the country was retracted this week by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
The bishops, who could not be reached for comment, offered no explanation for the decision. But Catholic groups, including the conservative Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, have urged moviegoers to boycott the film, saying the film and the book on which it is based are anti-Catholic.
"... there was all kinds of speculation from the day it went up...as to…
gregladen | December 10, 2007Chistians, especially Catholics, continue "tizzy" regarding The Golden Compass, based on books by atheist Philip Pullman. I heard a woman from the Catholic League, spitting and furming on MSNBC about how this movie was really really bad because it would ...
Lead to children to reading the books..
Read the books? Hey, read the books! Next thing you know, the children will be cannibalizing each other when we are not looking....
From a column in the Times Record New, Wichita:
C'mon, people. "The Golden Compass" is a fantasy film - a fantasy film - which generally means it's not real.
You can…
gregladen | December 7, 2007Another round of heavy artillery launched in the War on Christmas. It's a hit!
[hattip: PZ Myers]
gregladen | December 2, 2007Grrl Scientist took one of those crazy on line polls and discovered that she's a holiday girl. She notes that the answers to the question "What's your holiday personality?" seems always positive and festive and crap no matter what you answer, and notes "I mean, who wants to be told they are a holiday grinch?"
Well, if you look at the questions, its pretty obvious what is going on here. This multiple choice test makes very annoying and, in fact, rather offensive assumptions about the personality, life style, proclivity, and culture of the person taking the test. This is typical Christmas…