A few things about this so-called war on Christmas:
- It doesn’t exist.
- There are other holidays being celebrated at this time of year. Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and Boxing Day all begin or fall on December 26. Yule is on December 21. Those are only the big ones in the United States and Canada. And, of course, there’s also New Year’s, just one short week after Christmas. “Happy holidays” just helps cover a lot more ground. It’s a time-saver, more than anything. Just because Christmas isn’t being singled out for special attention does not mean its celebrants are being snubbed or persecuted.
- It doesn’t exist.
- If it did exist, and we take into account all the Christmas music, advertisements, sales, decorations and et cetera that have been on pretty much constant parade since Thanksgiving (if not Halloween), then we probably have to concede that the war isn’t going too well for anybody but the Christians.
- Which is not to say the real Christians, who are perfectly happy to celebrate the holiday and reflect on the birth of Jesus in the privacy of their own homes and churches with friends and family. I mean the idiots writing dumb books like this, or hosting bad television programs like this, the sort of people who seem to be more enchanted by the sound of their own voices than in any true holiday spirit.
- It doesn’t exist.
- We don’t live in a theocracy, and we do have separation of church and state. So even if 99% of the nation celebrated Christmas — and they don’t — it wouldn’t be a state-sanctioned or -sponsored religious observance, and forcing non-Christians to celebrate it as such would still be wrong.
- The day itself has only been a national holiday since 1870. Were the almost one hundred years in this country before that a war on Christmas?
- It doesn’t exist.
- I suspect John, and by extension Wonkette, are right:
The truth is, anytime someone starts talking to you about how Christians are persecuted in the United States, you are — right then and right there — talking to a retard.
Because the evidence just doesn’t back them up.
- Because, oh yeah, it doesn’t exist.
Now can we please stop taking this seriously as a news story?