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Dr Adequate
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Message 8 of 138 (773395)
11-30-2015 8:09 PM 		Reply to: Message 4 by Jon
11-30-2015 1:50 PM

Nobody has ever considered other people celebrating their own holidays as a 'War on Christmas'.
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Oh, c'mon, it's a War On Christmas if Starbucks isn't celebrating Christmas hard enough ... before Thanksgiving.
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What has been regarded as such a war are the repeated efforts by bafoons like you to erase all traces of Western culture and identity ...
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So, imaginary stuff that makes paranoid people hysterical? Y'know, that's just what I've always said.
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Message 9 of 138 (773396)
11-30-2015 8:51 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by Jon
11-30-2015 8:02 PM

Rewriting that scene to make the characters say something else is no less a war on that culture than ISIS' destruction of archaeological sites is a war on the cultural heritage of the Middle East.
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Mad people are funny.
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12-10-2015 2:48 PM

Once again, the Onion nails it.
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Message 42 of 138 (774156)
12-13-2015 11:03 PM 		Reply to: Message 31 by New Cat's Eye
12-12-2015 2:02 PM

And then you blame all the Christians for bitching about a War on Christmas when most of them never really did.
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I must have missed the bit where I blamed all the Christians for something. Perhaps you could point it out to me.
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12-13-2015 11:07 PM 		Reply to: Message 38 by New Cat's Eye
12-13-2015 7:13 PM

Is that what we're supposed to do? Go to the other side's worst of the worse, and then use a broad brush to paint them all as being that?
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No, which is why no-one suggested that.
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What I would suggest, however, is that if you're going to suggest that there's more of X than Y, it would be a good idea first to look for instances of Y. Otherwise you might be suffering from a sampling error.
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12-17-2015 10:21 PM 		Reply to: Message 61 by New Cat's Eye
12-16-2015 9:05 PM

Isn't that what being offensive is really about; how you make other people feel? If you really are PC, then shouldn't you care about offending the people that (mistakenly) believe in the War on Christmas? Is cracking jokes and making fun of them, and offending them further, really the PC thing to do?
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Well, I believe in equal treatment for all, and any time the loons on Fox News start whining about how there's a war on Ramadan 'cos not enough people are saying Merry Eid, I'll laugh at that too. Is that PC enough for you?
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Message 71 of 138 (774455)
12-17-2015 11:39 PM 		Reply to: Message 70 by New Cat's Eye
12-17-2015 11:04 PM

No, that's retarded. Ramadan isn't a secular Federal holiday.
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You think we can only have imaginary wars on secular federal holidays? In fact, it turns out that we suffer from no such limitation, which is why the people at Fox managed to whine about a "war on Easter" despite Easter not being a secular federal holiday. So I reiterate my offer to laugh at them some more if they invent a war on Ramadan or Diwali or the Chinese New Year.
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12-25-2015 9:08 PM 		Reply to: Message 107 by Faith
12-25-2015 3:50 PM

If so, it's not true. That chapter is referring to the making of idols by the heathen nations by carving them out of wood and decorating them, to worship them as gods. There are other references in the Bible to the making of idols out of wood. It is a mocking of the idea that they are gods to describe them as unable to move or speak, in contrast with the living God of the Jews.
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So what if I have a Christmas tree but I sacrifice a goat to it? It's a bit of a gray area.
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