My Email to Fox News
The following is what I sent to Fox News after I saw yet another segment about how Christmas is being taken over by the Nazis or something like that. Do you think they'll post my email on their show? Do you think they'll hire me as correspondant? Let me know what you think America and post a comment bitch!
To: Fox News
Subject: Christmas Under Attack?
Aren't there more important things to worry about? There's a war going on. There's terrorism. Hell, we have elections coming up in a year that are far more important than whether or not a holiday is under attack! Now, just for the record, I am a stronly liberal atheist. I should be the one who's out there attacking Christmas, but gues what? I'm not. The reason? It's not really worth the effort. Do I wish that there was less religion in government? Of course, but we all have to live with things we aren't happy with. Some people have to live with the fact that abortion is legal (for now) and some people have to live with the fact that Christianity is highly prevalant in this country. Like I said, there are far more important things going on, but since I can't turn on the news without hearing about how Christmas is going to be secularized, I just have to say something. To begin with, Christmas is NOT the birthdate of Jesus. All evidence points to Jesus being born in September. But, that's neither here nor there since Christmas was originally a PAGAN holiday. It was a festival of lights. It was meant as a way of asking the gods to bring the sun back. There's a reason it happened right after the winter solstice. People were afraid that the sun was being taken away from them so they had a celebration in honor of the gods. At some point in the fourth century, the pope called for an end to all non Christian celebrations. The people didn't like that so Christianity co-opted the celebration for their own gain. In the history of the church, no one's birth was ever celbrated, only their deaths were. In an effort to spread Christianity the pope went again church tradition and made Christmas a celebration of the birth of Christ. Which is totally bogus anyhow since Christ was born sometime in the fall, most likely in September. So, what's all the arguing about? Wouldn't all this energy be better spent helping the homeless and the less fortunate? Now, just to get off of my high horse, I do agree that we should just go back to saying Merry Christmas when we're talking about Christmas, but does it really hurt to say Happy Holidays when there's a chance that a non-Christian might be around? That's just common decency. Of course, it's also common decency to not get bent out of shape if someone says "Merry Christmas" and you happen to be non-Christian. I do it all the time. If more people would just learn to accept and live with the little things that annoy us, wouldn't this country be a whole lot better?
To: Fox News
Subject: Christmas Under Attack?
Aren't there more important things to worry about? There's a war going on. There's terrorism. Hell, we have elections coming up in a year that are far more important than whether or not a holiday is under attack! Now, just for the record, I am a stronly liberal atheist. I should be the one who's out there attacking Christmas, but gues what? I'm not. The reason? It's not really worth the effort. Do I wish that there was less religion in government? Of course, but we all have to live with things we aren't happy with. Some people have to live with the fact that abortion is legal (for now) and some people have to live with the fact that Christianity is highly prevalant in this country. Like I said, there are far more important things going on, but since I can't turn on the news without hearing about how Christmas is going to be secularized, I just have to say something. To begin with, Christmas is NOT the birthdate of Jesus. All evidence points to Jesus being born in September. But, that's neither here nor there since Christmas was originally a PAGAN holiday. It was a festival of lights. It was meant as a way of asking the gods to bring the sun back. There's a reason it happened right after the winter solstice. People were afraid that the sun was being taken away from them so they had a celebration in honor of the gods. At some point in the fourth century, the pope called for an end to all non Christian celebrations. The people didn't like that so Christianity co-opted the celebration for their own gain. In the history of the church, no one's birth was ever celbrated, only their deaths were. In an effort to spread Christianity the pope went again church tradition and made Christmas a celebration of the birth of Christ. Which is totally bogus anyhow since Christ was born sometime in the fall, most likely in September. So, what's all the arguing about? Wouldn't all this energy be better spent helping the homeless and the less fortunate? Now, just to get off of my high horse, I do agree that we should just go back to saying Merry Christmas when we're talking about Christmas, but does it really hurt to say Happy Holidays when there's a chance that a non-Christian might be around? That's just common decency. Of course, it's also common decency to not get bent out of shape if someone says "Merry Christmas" and you happen to be non-Christian. I do it all the time. If more people would just learn to accept and live with the little things that annoy us, wouldn't this country be a whole lot better?
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