O'Reilly - "Very Secret Plan to Diminish Christianity"

Thanks, jes.

I'm not insulted, nor can I see how any Christian would be insulted.

I think we can stipulate that the behavior of the a-hole in lash's office at least approximated an attack.

I also think that if you got upset everytime that someone crossed themselves you would be emotionally handicapped, and so I don't think it's anything but normal not to be offended by simple displays of Christian devotion.

In one way or the other, all of us are members of some minority.

I don't think many, if any, people are "upset" over crossing--or other small, individual acts of faith.

I must ask what minority status you and I may experience that equates with being a non-Christian at Christmastime in America.

I am a non-Christian at all times, not just Christmas time. Does one have to be a Jew to be a discomforted minority during Christmas time?

Presumably there are religious holidays in Israel, where the majority of citizens are Jewish. There are minority populations of both Muslims and Christian living in Israel. Should Israel tone down their Jewish celebrations for the sake of these minorities?

Unless there is deliberate action by the majority to use their celebration as a means to insult or intimidate the minorities, the minorities should just go about their business during times of majority celebrations and steer clear of the unseemly but all too prevalent claim to victim's status.

If the majority will not allow the minorities to engage in their own uniques celebrations, then there is a definite problem, but that certainly isn't the case in America.

I live in Dallas (actually Keller, but close enough), but I passionately root for the Carolina Panthers and despise the Dallas Cowboys. Should I be offended in any way because the majority of my neighbors celebrated the Cowboys' defeat of the Panthers today?

The majority has no obligation to minimize its celebrations simply because the minority cannot or (more importantly) will not join in them.

When Bing Crosby sang "Have yourself a merry little Christmas," he didn't actually mean: ""Unless you are a Jew, a Muslim or a Taoist, in which case have yourself a merry little time in Hell"

When a neighborhood chorale group parks themselves outside the home of a Jew and sings "Silent Night," they are not trying to evoke Crystal Night.

There are very few people who would turn a Jew or Muslim away from their Christmas party simply because they were not Christian, and very few who would reject an invitation to a Seder or a post Ramadan feast simply because they were Christian.

Celebrations in good faith, no matter what the faith, should be welcome by everyone.

Ah well. I did make clear I don't think Christmas should be minimized.

However, the point that this episode brought home to me--and that I've tried rather unsuccessfully to share-- won't be made clearer by any sturm. No use in dragging out the drang.

Have a memorable, happy Christmas.

so Lash, what are you wearing?

Saran Wrap

with underwire?

Oh, nice.

Very diminishing.

Like Father Christmas doesn't have RADAR!






































































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Hey all you lefty secular humanists --- your plan didn't work.

Christmas came and devout Christians throughout America celebrated the birth of their Savior, even though Target stuck with Happy Holidays.

Last I read no Muslims, Jews or Buddhists were lynched, no kid was tied to a papier-mache donkey and forced to participate in a nativity pageant, and a theocracy wasn't announced when the yule log went off the air.

Better luck next year!

If anyone has some rethinking to do, it's O'Reilly and his blowhard colleagues at Fox. They invented the whole notion of a campaign vs. Xmas...

And, apparently, Finn bought that horseshit hook, line and sinker . . .

Yeah, there's one born every minute. Hence Fox's ratings...

Is Target a new handle for GWB?

heeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheeheehee . . .


okbye

Grow a pair pooch and confront me directly.

After all, by your own claim, you are a sufficently large man.

Nope, not in the making of the Nipper. Dart in, bite at the heels and retreat.

All of you clowns performed just as expected - thank you!

Damn!

I let the poodle bait me into a pointless kick in his snarling direction.

I stand self-chastened.