December 02, 2007
Don't Like the Commercialization of Christmas? Blame the Atheists!
The Dallas Morning News ran this opinion piece that attacks the commercialization of Christmas, yet repeatedly attacks atheists. The piece implies that atheists are behind the commercialization of Christmas, when it's actually blamed on Christians in the body of the article.
This straw-man attack on non-believers (as opposed to non-Christians?) shows how paranoid Christian faith is these days. It's not enough to have a government recognized holiday, to have outlets at every major intersection in America with Christmas nativity scenes (in front of Roman execution hardware) garishly illuminated, to have endless hours of public airwave time devoted to their holiday; now they have to actively attack atheists to deflect the shame for their slavish devotion to buying stuff for the holiday instead of actually following the philosophy of Christ and be charitable instead. Let us not forget that this 'religious observance' at the Malls accounts for nearly all the profits that the big box retailers earn during the year. So much for piety, eh?
So leave the atheists out of it. We didn't create this mess, and we don't care if you want to pursue this religious holiday on your own time, own property and with your own money. All we ask is that you recognized that the sentence "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." means you can't use public land, nor public money to recognize this holiday (nor Hanukkah, nor Kwanza, not even Festivus). Seems pretty straightforward and one would think that limited-government, no taxation Republicans could get behind that idea. One would think ...
Posted by Steven at December 2, 2007 11:04 AM
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