12-10-2017, 07:37 PM
(12-09-2017, 06:26 AM)Duchess Wrote:
Last night trump said he brought Christmas back and department stores are saying Merry Christmas again because of him.
Bringing Christmas back was one of his campaign promises. I remember shaking my head when he made that proclamation on the stump.
Bill O'Reilly milked the shit out of 'the war on Christmas' myth and got his Christian viewers all riled up about it for years before he was ousted from FOX News.
Christians who feel perturbed by people of other faiths celebrating their own religious holidays around the same time + some retailers' choices to move to "Happy Holidays" for a couple of years to be more inclusive are the ones who bought into that crap, as far as I can see.
The only time celebrating Christmas, saying "Merry Christmas", or anything of that nature has ever been taboo in this country was way back in the 1700s. And, that's because celebrating Christmas was banned by Puritan Christians themselves (England had done the same for similar reasons). The Puritans felt it was a "superstitious" practice which was ungodly and sinful. The ban was repealed a couple of decades later.
I still remember Megyn Kelly's outraged spiel on FOX News about how Santa Claus IS white when it was reported that some black families told their children he was black to be more inclusive. And, Jesus was white too!, she exclaimed. I've never really been able to take her seriously since then.