[Apparently, saying "Happy Holidays" is the cause of our economic recession]
The point for a healthy society of commerce and politics is not that religion saves, but that it keeps most of the players inside the chalk lines. We are erasing the chalk lines.
Feel free: Banish Merry Christmas. Get ready for Mad Max.
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First of all, it ain't just Northerners. I am from the South and I think ya'll are all first class pieces of shit.
Second, nurturers of what useful virtues? Deliberate ignorance? Bigotry? Religious tyranny and oppression? Those have never been virtues, and this Southerner is very grateful that they are finally going out to the trash heap where they belong.
"Feel free: Banish Merry Christmas. Get ready for Mad Max."
You can throw up your hands and shout "EMBARGO ON!!" all you want, but providing some catharsis for your narrow little minds is the only effect this will have on the economy of this, a secular and pluralistic nation.
Also, I agree with the others before me who've said it already: Jesus Klingon has hit the bull's eye with that response.
EDIT: (#830887)
The Mad Max trilogy was set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, so good ol' Daniel-san here is invoking the name of Mad Max to proclaim that the refusal to celebrate December 25 as an exclusively Christian holiday is tantamount to bringing about the end of the world.
Pssh...I can take two unrelated things and string them together like they're somehow related, too.
Peanut butter causes car accidents!
Prove me wrong! PROVE ME FUCKING WRONG!
So this December when someone tells me Merry Christmas I will answer "And a Mad Max to you, Buddy."
I like the scene in "Wolf" where Nicholson pisses on the guy's shoes in the restroom, and as he's leaving the guy says; "Suede shoes." Jack answers; "Asparagus."
If their virtue is so useful, how did they come to have so many obnoxious political opinions?
Something doesn't add up there, Danny.
Besides the fact that this is a bunch of batshit insane rambling, I want to point something out to everyone. I've lived in the Southeastern United States all my life. There is alot of christianity here, but very little virtue. I have spent most of my life here as a fundamentalist christian, and even still got treated like shit by all those who were supposed to be the same as me. For all the good jesus taught in the bible, it does no good when his followers don't follow any of it. The whole idea that the southern US is a great place, is absolute bullshit. It's what has caused me and my wife to look into moving to Canada. We hate it here. So I would like to personally tell Daniel, to fuck off, and I hope you get hit by a bus.
@ Smells Like a Monkey: My brother and I really do celebrate Festivus!
@ Rat of Steel: Also, it's got Mel Gibson in it, who is now a fundie nutjob.
I feel like I should apologize for Southerners.
Oh, and I'm gonna blog-whore a bit. Last night, I wrote something about how bad economic times can lead to superstition and even literal demonization of others, and I cited this at the end: http://crackerlilo.blogspot.com/2008/11/look-away-from-big-board.html
People have been saying "Happy Holidays" for DECADES. Basically, it's an abbreviation because "Happy Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Yule, New Year, and Epiphany!" is way too long to fit on a sign. I recognized this even growing up in the Bible Belt, surrounded by Southern evangelicals.
Pity Henningler never quite caught on that THERE ARE OTHER END-OF-YEAR HOLIDAYS BESIDES CHRISTMAS.
Yes- those money lenders would all be doing so much better if Jesus was around.
Ah, actually- if that's what he meant, then it's reasonably clever.
But I doubt it is what he meant.
...sheesh.
I am shocked that the Wall Street Journal would print this nonsense. Nobody has banished Merry Christmas, so just get the fuck over yourself. Southern evangelicals are not any better than the rest of Americans, they just like to tell us they are!
@Jesus Klingon: I also think that the real enemy of the "only say Merry Christmas" people is capitalism. The Walmarts and Targets of the world KNOW that America is extremely diverse. They know that they have customers of different religions. They don't want to alienate their non-Christian customers and risk losing business, so they say "Happy Holidays" instead.
As a Christian, I have never understood all this "War on Christmas" nonsense. Saying "Happy Holidays" to someone you don't know is not "banishing" Christmas, it's just good manners. I wonder how Daniel would feel if stores only said "Happy Kwanzaa."
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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