The War On Christmas Just Won’t End

[Thorne]

Nope - not kidding, but not losing my sense of proportion either. We're talking about funding religious celebrations, not imposing some kind of religious dictatorship over the whole nation.

No, we're talking about funding a PARTICULAR religious celebration while prohibiting others. Baby steps. How would you feel if you were forbidden to say Merry Christmas, or Happy Holidays, and were only allowed to say Happy Hanukkah?

But they don't succeed do they? Seems that even when fundamentalists have control, they have a hard time imposing their own views, then.

They don't succeed because people like me won't LET them succeed. But if you pay any attention to the current crop of Republican presidential candidates you would see that most of them would gladly gut the Constitution to make special provisions for their fundamentalist beliefs. Another baby step.

I don't think it helps your case against Christmas.
D'you think banning Christmas will really help?

I don't have any "case" against Christmas. Only against those who would force it down my throat. I don't want to ban it, just keep it where it belongs. In the churches, in peoples homes, not in the courtrooms or legislatures of the nation.

[denuseri]

They don't succeed because people like me won't LET them succeed. But if you pay any attention to the current crop of Republican presidential candidates you would see that most of them would gladly gut the Constitution to make special provisions for their fundamentalist beliefs. Another baby step.

Actually a handful of the current candidates on the republic side (mainly Perry) are "trying" to pander to their precieved base with an add that attacks gays in the military, and might mention calling Christmas ....well...Christmas lol. As for what he would do once elected Ive already covered that to death and back in a different thread. (Basically nothing will happen no matter what he promises).

But hey we all know how the atheists like to use sophistry and blow things completely out of proportion. I guess thats how atheists who are asshats all get their rocks off during any holiday with a religious theme...shrugs.