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December 13, 2006
Lou Dobbs and the War on Christmas
Rabbi petitions Seattle airport to put a menorah next to its Christmas trees. Airport panics and removes trees. Full-blown wingnut freakout ensues. Lou Dobbs(!) smacks some sanity down on the table.
...Hang on, Christians, because you're in 21st Century America, and our culture celebrates your holiest day of the year with such insensitive gusto that our economy would suffer a serious setback if your religious sensibilities were as easily offended as those of the litigious rabbi.
More than 140 million shoppers spent an average of about $360 on Black Friday alone, the day after Thanksgiving and the unofficial kickoff to the Christmas shopping season, according to the National Retail Federation. And all those Christmas shoppers are expected to spend nearly a half-trillion dollars this shopping season.
Now if I were a fundamentalist Christian, that might strike me as a little politically incorrect. And I think all of you folks should think about suing somebody. You know, get in the spirit of the season.
I've never understood why the people who are "fighting to save Christmas" are fighting the wrong people. If you want it to be a dignified religious day, your quarrel is with the people who hijacked it years ago and turned it into a capitalist bacchanal of greed, stress and overplayed crappy music.
The people like me, who are not fundamentalist Christians but are nevertheless appalled by the whole spectacle, would be more than happy to help you separate the holy day from the holiday. Churchill and Stalin worked together against a common enemy; no reason we can't too. Anything to not hear "Jingle Bell Rock" again.
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