It wouldn't be Christmas if we didn't have the mindless, botox-faced zombies at Fox yelping about the insult to religion. Of course it wouldn't be a free country if we weren't allowed to express our objections to anything or were forced to make religious oaths and follow religious practices. Oh, wait a minute -- we are. It isn't; at least not yet.
Lyin' Bill says he expects "they" (Jews, Atheists, Muslims) will try next to remove the national holiday (what, he called it a holiday?) on the premise that we can't have a holiday based on religion. Of course we can have a holiday based on the fact that nobody would come to work anyway, but that's inconvenient to his scenario and it annoys him that in fact, nobody seems to object to a day off for any reason.
It's my constitutional right to insult your religion, I'm proud to say, and it's only fair since your religion in and of itself insults mine and several others. In fact I take offense at some aspect of every religion I've yet heard of. It's good to live in a free country.
Apparently the sense of relief at being newly out from under the bootheel of religious tyrants seems to be spreading. Newsweek has a very objective over story on the empty bigotry of the war against gay marriage; one that I think couldn't have got past the editors before the election. Keith Olbermann came out last night and condemed Lyin' Bill's comic opera about Christians under siege as the stepchild of xenophobia and anti-Sematism.
It's not as if freedom is breaking out all over, but I sense a weakening of the old guard; the passing of an old, worn out tyranny and again, I'm no longer ashamed to be proud of being an American: not because I think we're the best, but because we're not as ashamed to admit our faults and more likely to do something about it.
Merry Christmas.
I think I would prefer to say "Happy Hanukkah" just to piss them off and drag out their latent anti-Semitism once and for all. In orders words, goad them into saying something really stupid and then pounce with all tentacles blazing.
ReplyDeleteWe can't even have a decent Christmas anymore without the rabble turning it into an ocassion for anger, recrimination, and scapegoating. Every year, they do this, and this time I am itching for a fight. So bring 'em on.
Blazing tentacles? Wasn't that a movie?
ReplyDeleteNope. An old rock-n-roll song, Great Balls of Fire!
ReplyDeletePeople seem to have lost all reason - each and every one of us can celebrate or not, any day of the year we want to. Someone rejecting my beliefs or world view in no way diminishes or disturbs those beliefs; they are mine.
ReplyDeleteA college that wants to be fair and present all views? Isn't it a primary directive of institutions of higher learning to challenge and provoke independent thought?
People need to re-examine their own belief system if it is so easily shaken.
Yes, but at heart, O'Reilly's war is about ethnic cleansing; about the idea that one has to be overtly neo-Christian or get the hell out.
ReplyDeleteOK - so here's a thought - in light of all of this foolishness - why don't we make them all really paranoid & start a rumor that Obama plans to recall all money & reprint it without the "In God We Trust" logo.
ReplyDeleteI can hear O'Reilly gasping already . . .
I'm surprised they haven't done that already.
ReplyDeleteHe's also going to replace the stars on the flag with little crescents, you know.
It has to be true - I heard it on the internet.