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From the people that brought you [b]THE 'WAR ON TERROR'[/b] comes...
[size=18]The 'War on Christmas' [/size]
An increasingly vocal number of Christians are attacking what they say is a "war on Christmas" by those determined to enforce a rigorously neutral holiday season reflecting America's constitutional separation of church and state.
Earlier this month, the official greetings card sent out by the president and first lady stirred up controversy for omitting any reference to Christmas.
"The Bush administration has suffered a loss of will and... they have capitulated to the worst elements in our culture," fumed William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights.
Some 80% of Americans describe themselves as Christian, and about 96% celebrate Christmas.
Millions of them use the phrase "happy holidays" as a convenient way of showing respect for other faiths.
Yet the row over the White House card has been just the tip of the iceberg in a year when the battle against secularism is being fought harder than ever by religious conservatives.
The campaign against "secularists gone wild" is also being driven by people like John Gibson, a popular anchor on the Fox News Channel.
His book - The War on Christmas: How the Liberal Plot to Ban the Sacred Christian Holiday is Worse Than You Thought - collates examples of how political correctness is, he says, neutering "America's favourite holiday season".
Meanwhile, at least 1,500 lawyers have volunteered to sue any town that tries to keep nativity scenes out of its holiday displays.
About 8,000 public school teachers stand ready to report any principal who removes Silent Night from the choir programme.
Such moves reflect the 1985 US Supreme Court "reindeer ruling".
It said that town-square nativity scenes and the like were constitutional if balanced with secular symbols like Santa Claus, thus avoiding the appearance of state-endorsed religion.
The American Civil Liberties Union is an active defender of the religious freedoms guaranteed in the constitution, and is often the target of conservative ire over the issue.
He said the group was being demonised by well-organised "extremists" whose real agenda was to crush religious diversity, "and make a few bucks in the process".
"Nowhere in the Sermon on the Mount did Jesus Christ ask that we celebrate his birth with narrow-mindedness and intolerance, especially for those who are already marginalised and persecuted," he wrote.
[url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4512156.stm]BBC[/url]
I as a muslim find this offfensive.
Keep christian holidays christian.
Noone that is not christian should have any view, and certainly should not find it offensive.
This is political correctness going bonkers.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Salam
I want to say "Merry Christmas" to everyone.
Why should anyone find that offensive ?
And if you find it offensive, Merry Christmas !!
Omrow
I find it offensive to remove the religion out of a religious festival.
christmasn is christian. Keep it christian. Do not make it out to be a non-religious festival.
The maga corps would prefer that. more people they could rip off.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
Now that is a good point indeed.
the CONCEPT of xmas may be christian
but the way its celebrated is either commercial or pagan
It is still christian.
Or Pagan.
Not non-religious.
It is associated with religion. Do not disassociate it.
"For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'" - David Cameron, UK Prime Minister. 13 May 2015.
No-one is stopping anyone in the US from saying Merry Christmas.
It's just that some people prefer to say 'Happy Holidays' and therefore incorporate Christmas, Hanukka and the New Year.
Who in their right mind would launch a War on Christmas? It's bonkers. It just gives right-wingers something else to complain about.
but isnt it now becoming a festival hardly anything to do with christianity?
altho it shudnt be, and for some it isnt - in the main, it is pretty much all about companies cashing in IMO
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