The last few years, it's been a bigger and bigger deal; but I haven't heard a thing about this year's war on Christmas. It's after Thanksgiving already. Are my fellow members of the lunatic left going to assault my values or what?

11/27/2006 8:28:06 AM

Wait, so you're on the lunatic left as well and you're upset?

I'm not sure I follow this thread...good thing too because I'd hate to follow it to the bucket.

11/27/2006 8:50:30 AM

The war on christmas has actually been shifted to a war on easter

11/27/2006 8:53:24 AM

I could have sworn it was a war on Mardi Gras this go round...

11/27/2006 8:55:13 AM

we're planning a sneak attack this year on christmas eve!

11/27/2006 8:57:23 AM

ITS CHRISTMAS NOT XMAS YOU SECULAR LIBERALS!!!!!!!

11/27/2006 9:02:08 AM

ha ha, I love the "war" on christmas, it's the most entertaining time of the year!

11/27/2006 9:09:21 AM

Given the vast commercialization of the holiday, overtaking Thanksgiving and even muscling in on Halloween, I imagine that the war has been lost.

11/27/2006 9:19:41 AM

^I saw Christmas decorations up after Labor Day.

I suspect the war on Christmas isn't in full swing yet because the Democrats won out on election day. They really don't have a motive to make asses of themselves over non issues right now.

[Edited on November 27, 2006 at 1:10 PM. Reason : -]

11/27/2006 1:09:36 PM

My girlfriend told me that since I converted from Christianity to Shinto that I no longer get presents.

11/27/2006 1:24:46 PM

Lunatic Fringe


I know you're out there
You're in hiding
And you hold your meetings
I can hear you comin'
I know what your after
We're wise to you this time
(Wise to you this time)
We won't let you kill the laughter

11/27/2006 1:32:39 PM

No its on. We just thought the great deals at Wal Mart where too good to pass up this week. So the war starts on Dec 2 this year.

Make sure to bring your punch and pie.

11/27/2006 2:07:58 PM

^But not Apple Pie, remember...

11/27/2006 2:09:09 PM

Quote :

"They really don't have a motive to make asses of themselves over non issues right now."

We never did it before. It's a bill o'rielly boogeyman.

11/27/2006 2:12:50 PM

It was a troll statement but yeah.

11/27/2006 2:15:50 PM

^^But even O'Reilly hasn't been heard from on this one with his imaginary slights against the God-fearing. Call me crazy, but I think one set of over-sensative crazies may have taken a year off from being offended at people saying "happy holidays" and the other set of over sensative crazies may have taken a year off from being offended at the sight of a Baby Jesus on their state-sponsored Christmas Tree.

11/27/2006 2:46:18 PM

Quote :

" Anti-Christmas Traditions - hastily muting the TV during stupid commercials with annoying Christmas songs. - donating to the ACLU to ensure nativity-free public areas - reminding "Jesus is the reason for the season" soapbox'ers that, in fact, Christians stole this holiday season from various polytheists to overshadow their pagan solstice celebrations - enlisting anti-Christians to battle in the "War on Christmas" - spreading awareness of the international "Buy Nothing Day", which takes place the day after Thanksgiving - advocating that Santa Claus be a symbol/idol for the celebration of winter solstice, and not one for Christmas - protesting against the exploitation of reindeer and little people - rudely reminding people whom assume that I celebrate Christmas that they are insensitive and prejudiced. - phoning in bomb threats to shopping malls the week before Christmas - mailing fake anthrax Christmas cards to main postal hubs - cynically laughing/sighing at how Christians are hopelessly hypnotized by this childish nonsense - staying home, eating treats, and smoking some dank "Christmas trees" while my family attends Christmas church service. (snow bong-hits if it's a white Christmas) - composing atheist and pagan holiday carols, or writing new satirical lyrics to existing Christmas carols - giving non-Christian gifts to Christians, like: -- Jewish Star of David tree ornaments, dreidels, menorah, etc. -- Buddhist statues, prayer flags, mala beads, etc. -- Saturnalia banquet pilei, tali knucklebones, gambling dice, etc. -- Wiccan Goddess dolls, oracle stones, pentagrams etc. -- other Pagan stuff (that is, Pagan stuff not already adopted/stolen by Christian tradition--such as gift giving, giving cards with poetry, prayer cookies, tree decorating, candles, wreaths, nuts, Santa, Yule log, kissing under mistletoe, etc.) - eating Chinese food on Christmas Day (mostly if you're Jewish) - telling little kids that Santa isn't real. - general humbuggery"

11/27/2006 2:53:46 PM

^ How is proposing that Santa doesnt relate to Christmas or shouldn't, anti christian? You think they'd be happy that folks want to seperate a commerical icon from a christian holiday.

I would care about the war on christmas, but i'm a little too busy wishing people well, happy holidays for most, merry christmas if they are christian or say it to me first, and generally making sure that something nice happens instead of religious politicall bullshit.

That said, I need to go put my pentagrams back on my altar and figure out when Dec's Esbat is .

11/27/2006 3:55:21 PM

I read an article the other day on one of the big 3 network's websites ( I can't remember which) that said that several stores were abandoning the "happy holidays", etc... slogans and going back to "merry Christmas"

11/27/2006 4:00:35 PM

^ I can believe it.

There are a LOT of non christians who arent in the *least* offended by the merry christmas plastered everywhere- well, at least not for religious reasons, and find the whole idea of forcing everyone PC to be terrifically silly, as long as nobody's forced in any direction at all.

I'm disgusted i saw christmas stuff up before thanksgiving, before halloween in a couple cases but that's just me being disgusted at how early the commercial world is trying to pounce on the gains.

11/27/2006 4:03:17 PM

A war on Christmas?

If it were true and our leaders were running it...

Our troops would be bogged down in the North Pole, while insurgent elves lobbed improvised exploding candy canes at them. Meanwhile at home, liberals would be bemoaning the lack of progress and calling for the redeployment of our troops down along the bunny trail.

11/27/2006 9:38:43 PM

Well the reason there is a War on Christmas issue is because FoxNews' commentator Charles Gibson wrote his dumbass book and so they played it up. If you have a pulpit, then whatever you say gets heard by everyone and talked about.

If Lou Dobbs wrote a book about Chinese fireworks being the source of anthrax, you'd see that played up all over CNN every June and July.

12/5/2006 5:02:03 PM

There is no war on Christmas this year because we won it last year.



Merry Christmas y'all.

12/5/2006 5:35:40 PM

12/5/2006 6:00:37 PM

WE WON!

I GOT MY PRIZE IN THE MAIL!

[Edited on December 5, 2006 at 6:53 PM. Reason : ]

12/5/2006 6:45:52 PM

merry jesusmas.

12/6/2006 2:14:44 AM

Oh, the "war" is still on:

"Among those on the list thus far are an Associated Press headline writer who referred to 'holiday trees' and a school system in New Jersey that won't display a nativity scene."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/bal-te.bz.christmas24nov24,0,7755319.story

"'We, quite frankly, have learned a lesson from last year,' Wal-Mart spokeswoman Linda Blakley told USA Today in a separate report. 'We're not afraid to use the term "Merry Christmas." We'll use it early, and we'll use it often.'"

http://money.cnn.com/2006/11/09/news/companies/walmart_christmas/

If all of the attacks on Christmas are just made up, who was Wal-Mart "afraid" of before?

12/6/2006 2:38:09 AM

Quote :

"school system in New Jersey that won't display a nativity scene.""

why should a school have a nativity scene and in of all places new jersey?

12/6/2006 3:20:06 AM

why should a school have a nativity scene and in of all places new jersey?

12/6/2006 9:20:24 AM

Quote :

"There is no war on Christmas this year because we won it last year."

12/6/2006 9:35:51 AM

HAPPY HONDA DAYS, Y'ALL!

PEACE, LOVE, AND GAP...

12/6/2006 10:30:11 AM

^^^^ and ^^^ And that's why the "war" continues--QED. I would, however, describe the annual Christmas controversy as more of a battle in a larger ideological war, so to speak.

12/6/2006 10:37:54 AM

Yeah, cause screw Darfur...my local Wal-Mart greeter not using the words "Merry Christmas" is really the reason the world sucks.

At least the women who are having their genitals mutilated are too busy screaming in pain to hear the abomination that is "Happy holidays" I'm sure they'd all just commit suicide right then.

12/6/2006 4:04:38 PM

Quote :

"And that's why the "war" continues--QED. I would, however, describe the annual Christmas controversy as more of a battle in a larger ideological war, so to speak."

answer my fucking question and stop spewing forth the talking points.

12/6/2006 4:12:54 PM

http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53247

DURP DURP DURP-DEE-DURP!

Quote :

"In tongue-in-cheek deference to the American Civil Liberties Union, students at the University of Texas displayed an "ACLU Solstice Barn" on campus, featuring politically correct figures."

It has a gay couple, Nancy Pelosi, and Marx, Lenin, and Stalin in place of the biblical suspects.

I got a chuckle out of them including a gay couple and Stalin together. I love these wide-ass brushstrokes.

[Edited on December 6, 2006 at 4:19 PM. Reason : .]

12/6/2006 4:16:46 PM

the Dipset Xmas cd was the opening salvo in the war on christmas

jim jones is defending the holiday yo

12/6/2006 11:43:49 PM

^x4 Sorry about Dresden, too. Darfur? If you're waiting for everything to be right in this world, you ain't never gonna have a merry Christmas.

Continue to live your apparently guilt-ridden life if you so choose. As for me, I'm going to try to be happy in the relative instant that I exist on this inexplicable orb.

12/6/2006 11:56:17 PM

My office mate plans the company Christmas party. She asked me if "Holiday Party" was an acceptible name. I recommended she go with "The Jesus Loves You Super Christian Christmas Blowout Bash" instead. She lol'd.

12/7/2006 8:27:19 AM

To me it depends on where you work and what kind of company it is. Nothing wrong with being a Christmas party if most of the people you work with celebrate Christmas (regardless of religion). Lots of Jews around here have Christmas trees and give gifts on Christmas from "Santa."

Christmas has been separated enough from Christ that it is acceptable to celebrate it as a secular holiday when needed.

Now if I worked in a Synagogue, I might call it "Holiday Party"

12/7/2006 8:44:40 AM

LO, SATURNALIA!

12/7/2006 10:46:11 AM

Hey hooksaw, are you ever going to answer my question?

12/7/2006 1:20:42 PM

So noone has anything to say about the ACLU Nativity?

12/7/2006 3:17:53 PM

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/56017

12/8/2006 9:53:36 AM

^
Some of the Onion's stuff is pretty funny. This one was extra-funny.

If you look to the left of this hit-piece making fun of buying stuff, you'll see an ad you can click on to buy Onion stuff. I guess it just depends on whose stuff you're buying.

12/8/2006 10:50:44 AM

Quote :

"Well the reason there is a War on Christmas issue is because FoxNews' commentator Charles Gibson wrote his dumbass book and so they played it up."

John Gibson, not Charles.

12/8/2006 1:35:33 PM

I don't know why there has to be an issue. If you don't like Christmas wish people a "Happy <Insert alternative holiday/reson to celebrate something>" greeting and argue about more substantial things........reference darfur mention above

12/8/2006 3:22:20 PM

there is no war on Christmas, Fox news created it so they could be appaled by it

12/9/2006 4:07:33 PM

haha...thanks, i wasn't paying attention. charles gibson is the one from good morning america or the early show or whatever.

12/10/2006 11:51:59 PM

Quote :

"ITS CHRISTMAS NOT XMAS YOU SECULAR LIBERALS!!!!!!!"

Actually this is ironic, since the abbreviation "Xmas" came from the fact that in Greek the letter X (chi), is the first letter of Christ (XPICTOC).

[Edited on December 12, 2006 at 10:06 AM. Reason : sorry... don't know how to get it to display real Greek]

12/12/2006 10:03:00 AM

I know whats missing this year:

salisburyboys annual thread about the pagan origins of Chistmas - you know, the thing about how we're actually worshipping Molech on the 25th of December.

I miss him.

12/20/2006 3:35:35 PM