Sarah Palin has "written" a book on the war on christmas.
Do you honestly believe she wrote it? While I am not going to say she is a complete dim wit, because that would be offensive to all the dim wits in the world, but intelligence isn't exactly a strength for her. I am pretty sure this book was ghost written for her.
So Fox News is starting up the nonsense again, like the do every year. They have the followers in lock step believing every word they say, mostly because they are preaching to the proverbial choir. Fox News tailors the reporting to a particualr audience, telling them what they want to hear. It is a great business model, but leaves quite a bit to be desired in the reporting of actual news.
Here is a collection of articles by The Blaze
http://www.theblaze.com/news/war-on-christmas/
But I have been sidetracked again.
War on xmas?? Tell me where in the US can you get away from xmas? It is EVERYWHERE! I am not complaining about that, even if I am not a big fan of the whole thing and the excess of it all. But how can any sane person say there is a war on xmas when it is just about everywhere you look! It is a visual assault day and night, pretty soon every other song on the radio is going to be xmas music, every ad on tv, and soon every show is going to be xmas. But if someone is refused putting a nativity on a public space it is suddenly a war? In most towns of any size there are plenty of churches all with varying displays, but the one place they are told they can't put them is some affront to christianity?
Finally we come to the history of xmas. The truth of the matter is no one is sure when Jesus was born, it is not related in any scripture or any sort of record. But judging by the details related in scripture it is definitely not the end of December! Most information I have read seems to agree he was born either in the summer or early fall. So why is December 25th the holiday celebrated? What other event falls around that time? What other event was celebrated by prechristian religions? Winter solstice.
Christians co-opted many dates and traditions of pagans to make integration easier, it is a very smart move on their part, good marketing. But try telling these Fox News sycophants this and you will be lucky to get away before they lynch your ass for blasphemy! And believe me the American taliban secretly admire the islamic blasphemy laws!
So it is just a holiday, a holiday that has become so corrupted by corporate greed as to be all but unrecognizable.
