Comments on: Atheist’s Christmas Cards!

By: Christmas Cards

Christmas Cards — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:07:32 +0000

i couldnt agree more with skeptic cat. Nonsense has been to turn what was once a happy greeting into basically a form of hate speech.

By: Andrew Shaffer

Andrew Shaffer — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 02:04:56 +0000

Thanks for checking out the videos, Greg!

By: =^skeptic cat^=

=^skeptic cat^= — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:47:20 +0000

I’m generally more tolerant than, say, Tom Flynn about having the trappings of New Testament mythology displayed over the holiday season and I sometimes do think that those insisting upon persons not saying the C-Word are nearly as silly and intolerant as the Fox News crowed who insist upon persons saying it regardless of their own philosophical convictions. Nevertheless, I do agree with Flynn that the end result of Fox News’ conjuring up of this “War on Christmas” nonsense has been to turn what was once a happy greeting into basically a form of hate speech.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:41:15 +0000

And now, as we speak, Barack bin Obama is visiting his homeland to receive additional instructions.

By: Jac

Jac — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:34:52 +0000

Yeah, back in 1942, when Irving Berlin wrote that song, “Happy Holidays,” it was really a Muslim Communist Kenyan plot to destroy America. I know this is true, because it’s on the Internet.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 15:15:32 +0000

There is a war on Christmas and you’ll see it erupt here on this blog. I just have a policy of not declaring war on a that holiday until after Thanksgiving!!!!

When I was a kid, I learned to say “Happy Holidays” to be more friendly to non-Christians who might not need to hear “Merry Christmas.” That is what Fox news is reacting to by inserting the presumption that “Happy Holidays” is annoying as part of the groundwork for their “Fair and even debate” bullshit. They are one inch away from being explicitly anti-semitic, anti-Muslim, and Racist.

By: Arthur "No Sheds" Jackson of Ulm

Arthur "No Sheds" Jackson of Ulm — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:46:52 +0000

In the 1950s it was “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!” Somebody figured out both holidays could be covered with “Happy Holidays”, and the practice spread. And nobody had a problem with rendering “Christmas” as “Xmas”.

There never was an attack on Christmas. It was better use of space in advertising, a purely capitalistic motive.

By: Jaketoadie

Jaketoadie — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:12:02 +0000

The true answer to Steve Douchey’s question of “When did saying happy holidays start to bug you?” would be “When Fox News started telling us that it should bug us.”