The War On Christmas has begun!

[Archae]

Well, these assholes think so...

The Religious Right’s War on the ‘War on Christmas’ Is Well Underway

Just as stores start playing Christmas music long before Thanksgiving, religious right groups do not wait for the start of Advent season to start complaining about the supposed “war on Christmas” by the nation’s retailers. Anti-LGBTQ legal group Liberty Counsel launched this week its annual “Naughty and Nice” list, which is meant to steer shoppers away from stores that rely too much on “Happy Holidays” messaging and not enough on “the true Reason for the season.” The list is part of the group’s “Friend or Foe Christmas Campaign,” which promises to be a “Foe” to those who try to “censor” Christmas.

Liberty Counsel is also promoting a Prager U video published a few years ago in which right-wing propagandist Dennis Prager explains why saying “Happy Holidays” is not, as you might think, an inclusive approach to the holiday season in a diverse society. Instead, he claims that not using the word “Christmas” is “hurtful.” Prager portrays public-facing employees as being afraid to use the “C-word” for fear of violating “all the sensitivity training they’ve had to undergo.” Prager insists, “Of course it’s a war on Christmas,” which he says is really “a war on the religious nature of America.”

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/the-religious-rights-war-on-the-war-on-christmas-is-well-underway/

[eleny]

1. Otherwise known as "The War On Non Christians Season"

[Initech]

44. Or anyone who's not a member of the Fox Christofasisct white supremacy RW nutjob cult.

[Newest Reality]

2. Time to break out...

Yay! It's time to break out the candycane catapults and the gingerbread grenades! Break the doors down with Yule logs and be shure launch some missile toes!

Let it blow, let it blow, let it blow!

[DVRacer]

17. I wanna see the footage

Of the raid on the “compound” at the North Pole. Did the old man run off into an ice cave like a dog?

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Those Elves Are Pretty Tough!

At least it looked that way in Fred Claus!!!

[klook]

32. Missile toes armed and ready!

[Captain Stern]

3. Damn, it seems like the 'war on christmas' starts earlier every year.

Is it too much to ask that we at least finish up the 'war on thanksgiving' first?

There's only so much time in the day, and lots of us still have to work. And, on top of that we're still dealing with the fallout over Columbus Day and Halloween.

[Cartoonist]

4. My shot

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

28. I want to post that on my FB page,

but when I cop the location and try that, the bottom part, Don't Be Fooled By Imitations, is cut off. Darn.

[Cartoonist]

33. Hmm

Try opening the image in a new tab, and then copy that URL.

I'm glad you like it. I got sick of seeing those Jesus is the reason signs.

[Bradshaw3]

37. So you think Black Friday and other examples of orgiastic consumerism are the reason?

Me too.


I wish one person of note would have the temerity to say, "You know America's version of Christmas has become little more than an exercise in mindless materialism and let's stop with the religious excuse." Yes there are people who donate time to feed the poor and who get sustenance from their relgion but this is 100 times worse than I was a kid. It's all about buying crap - which I don't have a problem with for kids although they go overboard on that too.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

42. Oddly enough, I just tried again,

Only this time I simply copied the picture and posted that. It worked!

Hooray!

[LakeArenal]

29. Exactly.

For the last few years I’ve made Solstice cards. I send them to everyone. I was told it offend someone...
But I could not care less....

The Solstice is the only factual thing about the season. Halloween, Thanksgiving, Jesus’s birthdate, New Year all fake.

I personally consider the Solstice the New Year.
But I don’t insist it is

[wryter2000]

30. I love the Solstice

It means the days get longer and the seed catalogues start coming.

[LakeArenal]

31. Indeed.

[Ferryboat]

5. If there is a war on Christmas

Christmas is winning hands down. Christmas holiday decorations are out before Halloween. Plows right over Thanksgiving like a speed bump.

I realize it is all about making holiday sales and finishing with a strong last quarter. So much for goodwill towards your fellow man.

[ProudLib72]

6. Can I abbreviate it "X-mas?"

Or is that also not kosher?

[smirkymonkey]

10. Only if you want to burn in hell for eternity.

"Good Christians" say Merry Christmas the proper way. But it's up to you.

[ProudLib72]

22. But I'm not Christian!

Even if I were, I would never be a "good Christian!"

[smirkymonkey]

27. Oh, well then you are definitely screwed.

Poor you!

FWIW, I am a fallen Christian. Even as a child, I knew it was bullshit.

[ProudLib72]

43. When my now BIL came to his first Christmas with my family

he was shocked. He had been raised in a Catholic family. They weren't really religious, but I think they still kept some of the practices like going to mass. Anyway, my parents lived in Las Vegas at the time, so one of our stocking stuffers was rolls of quarters for the slot machines. We all went down on the strip for Christmas!

[lordsummerisle]

7. I remember Bill O'Reilly and John Gibson of Fox Noise

going on ad nauseam about this. Off camera they probably were cracking up about how the rubes were buying it.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Hmmmmm.

The older I get the less I even worry about Xmas. Hopefully those whom have to get up each day and trudge to work get a couple days off with pay. That is not a given anymore.

[Liberal In Texas]

9. Tis the season for the big manufactured affront from "The Libs."

You know, the Libs that are guacamole toast eaters or some other nutso meme.

[maxrandb]

38. And apparently the "libs" don't spend any of our hard earned money on Christmas

Gee, imagine what we could do to hate radio if we ever went to war with them.

[bluecollar2]

11. My decoder ring let me down...

Told me it starts next Thursday.

[Roland99]

12. My response is always:

I guess we’ve been at war with Christmas since WWII

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Holiday_(song)

[Mariana]

19. It was long before that.

I was reading some newspapers from December 1895, and they were chock full of notices for Holiday parties, Hoiiday sales, holiday trips, etc.

[Archae]

25. It was from Henry Ford and his "Dearborn Independent" for decades.

His pet "newspaper" ran stories about how "Jews were at war with Christmas" in the 20's and during the Depression.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

13. I don't want to think about the holidays.

The Evangelical right can go stick a candy cane up their rears, hook first.

[Norbert]

14. We grew up with Perry Como

He must have been a heathen. He don't say Christmas at all.

Seriously, who are the snowflakes?

[Archae]

15. "Christian" supremacists.

These are groups that are demanding the US become a "Christian nation."

Jews? Forget it.
Muslims? Hell no.
Buddhists? Bite your tongue.
Atheists? Absolutely not.

Groups like the one in the OP are obsessed with making everyone worship the way *THEY* demand, almost always born-again fundamentalists with their gospel of greed.

[Norbert]

16. This was never an issue

Until O'Reilly appointed himself chief of the Christmas police.

You are so correct. It is a thinly veiled campaign to 'Make America White Again'.

[Mariana]

21. Oh, they were complaining about it long before that.

I was told in Sunday School in the 1970's that it's anti-Christian to write Xmas instead of spelling out Christmas, for example. They didn't like to hear Happy Holidays or Season's Greetings.

What O'Reilly did was make it socially acceptable for Christians to harass and berate store clerks who say, "Happy Holidays" or even if they just say "Thank you for shopping at XYZ", without any reference to holidays. I experienced this myself, working a cash register in Texas in the 1990's. Some of my Christian relatives brag about doing this.

[keithbvadu2]

34. But you have to be the 'right' kind of Christian.

But you have to be the 'right' kind of Christian.

Many Catholics/Protestants say the other is not a true Christian.

Billy/Franklin Graham say Catholics are not Christians.

[muriel_volestrangler]

18. They canceled the ice sculptures at North Pole, Alaska! Because of ... global warming

Apparently global warming is now waging war on Christmas.

The town of North Pole, Alaska, had to cancel their yearly “Christmas in Ice” celebration. The reason? Not enough ice.

https://tamino.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/global-warming-wages-war-on-christmas/

[Takket]

23. i thought about writing a reasoned reply to this........

containing all the reasons why this "Liberty council" is full of shit

but i would just be preaching to the choir anyway....

So I'm just going to slam my head into a wall instead.

[Hotler]

24. It's not too early to put out my Happy Holidays yard sign. nt

[tavernier]

26. I do love Christmas but even I'll be sick of it this year

as it started the same time as pre Halloween, which started around the middle of August.

As a Christian it did have more meaning as I was growing up, before the Mega Mall and Walmart Superstore Explosions. I remember after church sitting around the tree on Christmas Eve with my parents and grandparents. After a meal of ham and potato salad, prepared earlier in the day, me squirming and anxious as I waited to get to the gift opening part. There were perhaps two gifts for each family member, maybe one or two more for the child. But in order to get your beautifully wrapped package, you were obligated to sing a verse of a carol, or tell a short Christmas story. Dad would dress up as Santa when I was very young.

Those Christmas Eves are burned into my memory as magical and beautiful. I don’t remember any of the presents, but I still hear the laughter.

I don’t think there’s a war on Christmas. I just think we sometimes forget to focus on the important parts of the holiday in order to find out what’s under the shiny paper wrappings.

[keithbvadu2]

35. Donald Trump Wished Everyone 'Happy Holidays' When Obama Was Saying 'Merry Christmas'

Donald Trump Wished Everyone 'Happy Holidays' When Obama Was Saying 'Merry Christmas'

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-barack-obama-christmas-758794

[Initech]

36. What a bunch of pathetic snowflakes.

Did your little feelings get hurt because someone didn't praise Baby Jesus enough? Well guess what? There are no safe spaces in the real world. Suck it up, buttercup!

[NCjack]

39. The biggest pagan in America sits in the Oval Office, plotting new crimes to

enrich his family and himself. But, RW Xtians want to fight a war about Xmas.

[maxrandb]

40. The Dems are missing an opportunity

A video of Hillary Clinton singing Silent Night would cause the Retrumplicans to stroke out.

Might even take enough of them out that partisan gerrymandering couldn't even save their pathetic party.

[smirkymonkey]

41. I used to like the holiday season.

This is just one more reason why I am beginning to dread it. All the magic has gone out of it for me. It's now just filled with anxiety and loathing. The commercial aspect of it is a huge part of that. As well as the bullshit "Happy Holidays" debate. I live in a large multi-cultural city and I will say "Happy Holidays" because it's the most appropriate greeting.

I can't afford it anymore and I don't want to confront my family with the fact that I simply do not want to go into more debt to give them things that they probably don't want or need and I don't want them to give me things that I don't want or need.

[hunter]

45. I'm a childhood refugee of the war on Christmas.

Half the Christians in my family believed Christmas was a bullshit pagan holiday.

Christmas was always a time of intense religious warfare in my family. Christmas wasn't good and done until people were bleeding and crying and going home angry, satisfied that God was with them, and only them.

Religious warfare was our family's favorite sport. Football was nothing.

I had just one tough grandma who wished to celebrate a typical 20th century U.S.A. Santa Claus May Company Christmas Tree Christmas, and mostly she got her way, but not without friction.

My favorite Christmas, but only in retrospect as a sexagenarian, was the Christmas morning I threw open the doors of my grandparent's camper van, yelled "Merry Christmas!" (because I was eager to open presents) and interrupted them fucking naked non-traditional Christmas grandma riding cowboy.