(December 12, 2012 at 11:55 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: I can't stand the whole war on Christmas bullshit myth that the social right likes to perpetrate. No Atheist is trying to get rid of your mangers or marry christmas's. Shut up and stop making things up.
Actually I do think their is a war on Christmas, just not the fascist one the right wants to falsely paint.
There is the battle to keep government from setting up pecking orders where only one religion gets a monopoly on a public venue. But there is no war on the Christmas tree at 30Rock, which is a private building.
There is a war on Christmas, as there should be in stupid claims of virgin births, which is a flat out scientifically absurd claim.
So lets not shy way from the word "war". I would simply clarify the context and call it a competition of reason vs myth.
When we allow them to use the word war, what is really going on is their petulant childish tactic of pretending to be the victim. But if they want to call it a war, sure, just like we had a war on sexism getting women the right to vote, and had a war defending the fact that the earth rotates around the sun.
It is not a literal fascist Hitler war, but a war for the equality of minorities, and the war to combat superstition and promote the value of reason, education and science.
There should be a war on magic baby claims just like we no longer believe the sun is a god, or that the heart does the thinking. But there is no war on their right to believe things we don't believe. "War" is the slur they use to avoid the competition of the free market of ideas. So instead of shying away from that slur, challenge the idiots to prove their claims instead of allowing them to cry like babies and play victim.
Lets take that word they use as a pejorative and have that "war" in the form of debate, challenge, and blasphemey. Lets use it and make it a "war" for equality and protection of science and reason.
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god for if there be one, surely he would pay more homage to reason than to that of blindfolded fear" Thomas Jefferson.
