The American Christmas Wins the War:
A Holiday Happy Ending
It began in earnest several weeks ago, launched by politically and doctrinally extreme Christian fundamentalists, with their designated media loudmouth Bill O’Reilly providing the show-biz fulmination, basically to promote a book by John Gibson, a Fox News producer, called The War on Christmas.
Its other political and economic dimensions were expressed by Agape Press, with their slogan “Reliable News From a Christian Source,” and a logo above which modestly floats a halo.
What most people heard about it was the sudden anger over store clerks saying “Happy holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas.” But what it was supposed to be was far more audacious.
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Turning 60 (in 2006)
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*This is the first of my birthday posts, back in 2006, just a few years
after I started blogging (since blogs didn't exist before.) It begins a
series ...
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