As we begin another December, let us try and remember what this special season of the year really means. Strings of street lights, even stop lights, blink a bright red and green, as the shoppers rush home with their treasures. Hear the snow crunch, see...
The Christianists are screaming that stores shouldn't say Happy Holidays, because that takes the Christ out of Christmas. Well folks, their customer base consists of a lot more than just Christians. There are other religions, including paganism, that celebrate holidays this time of year. It is like these folks have no shame, everyone must bow down so that we can make this a Christian nation.
Then the Christianists got mad because people started calling them holiday trees not Christmas trees. Considering the fact that the idea of cutting down a tree and decorating it every December started long before Christianity was invented, I don't think they have much of an argument there either.
Now the Christianists are positing the idea that the US of A was founded as a Christian nation, and that all the founding fathers agreed on that. Well, if you look back at the history of the founding of this nation, especially at the drafting of the Constitution, you will see that the Christainists back then wanted to put more God in, but the secularists were able to keep God out (mostly). So the secularists won one way back in the 18th century, and now the Christiano-fascists are trying to fight this battle anew.
I fear for this land of ours when I see how emboldened the right-wingers are in their makeover of our country. Alito is probably the biggest thing they have accomplished that cannot be overturned by a right-thinking government (that we can elect next November). I hope America is waking up to all that is going on around them, before we end up being a theocracy along the lines of Iran and (formerly) Afghanistan. God help us if that happens.
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