Well…I kinda figured you were tired of me writing about ole Ben Carson so I thought I’d go another direction today….if you haven’t heard, Starbucks has declared war on Christmas….at least according to some of the really crazy religionists on the right…and, how are they doing that you may ask? They have taken aim at Christmas by taking the snowflakes and reindeer off of their cups! I tell you it’s a travesty…Christmas will be ruined now that you can only get plain red cups for your coffee in the morning! Yeah, that sounds pretty ridiculous, huh? But, there are a bunch of nuts on the right who have taken this seriously to the point that a rant video by one of these nuts had gotten over 10 million hits…and write-ups in many of the mainstream newspapers followed…and not even tongue in cheek like my rant here…I wonder if we are going to have to endure this crap for the next two months when someone somewhere doesn’t celebrate Christmas to the satisfaction of these crazies…I know it will give me something to ridicule but I mean, really? Don’t these folks have anything better to do? I’ll bet Starbucks is shaking with the threat of a boycott…okay, I even laughed at that one….geez…
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A War on Christmas?
Well…going through the newspapers this morning, I found this little nugget from Frank Beckmann in the Detroit News where he is still rolling out the old chestnut that there is a “war” on christmas still going on today…haven’t we tired of the majority religion in this country still casting itself as the aggrieved victim of some sort of conspiracy? He cites all of the same old stuff…no nativity scenes on public property, no religious carols at high school choir concerts…etc, etc, etc,….as the evidence that if christians don’t battle against change everyday,there will only be a secular holiday left and the ACLU and government will take away the christmas tree in his house. How does he think the jews, muslims, and non-believers feel when we are constantly told by the majority that we just have to be quiet and take it when we are bombarded with non-stop christmas for months and are forced to observe the holiday by the fact that everything is closed? Even as a non-believer, I wouldn’t want christmas displays to go away…it just brings too much joy to the believers and even makes me smile…I just want the christians to understand that we live here, too, and to live their principles of love and peace.
He then goes on to use a friends experience in China as a harbinger of what christmas will be here in the US if the forces of evil are allowed to continue their dastardly plan. But the kicker to me, was when he finishes his rant against the forces of darkness and reason; filled with hate, he goes on to say his article is in the “true spirit of the season”…well, I can see why people are turning away from religion if this is what it expresses….but, I know this is not the spirit that most christians share this season….even we non-believers can appreciate that most people are smiling this time of the year…and whatever the reason, the world can always use more of those….