Posted on 07/01/2015 6:03:45 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Gretchen Carlson's new book, "Getting Real."
It was while doing "Fox & Friends" that I got a reputation for being a culture warrior. Bill O'Reilly started inviting me to come on "The O'Reilly Factor" for a regular culture warrior segment. I really cared about this stuff. Fox was the first place I'd worked where it was okay to talk openly about your faith on the air. Of course, I understand that when you're doing news reporting and anchoring, it's not appropriate. But at Fox I had a different kind of forum, so I went for it.
Where our culture is headed is an enduring topic of interest for many people, and I think they appreciate it that I take the topic on -- even when they don't agree with me. For example, I've received plenty of flak for talking about the war on Christmas, often being described as "freaking out" and "going ballistic," as if I were some demented Christian warrior. One website published this pearl: "If Bill O'Reilly is the commander-in-chief of the War on Christmas, Gretchen Carlson is the head of the women's auxiliary." The thing is, it's not a joke to me. I can't think of a single other religion whose holy day is treated like a joke.
It all came to a head over the Festivus controversy. Festivus is a fake holiday, invented by the hit show "Seinfeld" in 1997. It was a funny bit on the comedy, and I laughed along with the rest of the world. But then it got real. Some people subsequently began to celebrate the holiday as an alternative to the Christian celebration, and one of them wrote a book called "Festivus: The Holiday for the Rest of Us."
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Foxy foxes at the Fox.
Was never a big fan of Carlson on F&F. I loved E.D. Hill and wished she stayed in that spot. She’s definitely a great person, though. Good to see someone taking a stand amidst the crushing anti-Christian movement in America.
The comments at the link show how deep the vile hatred is toward God and His Judaeo-Christian followers.
God will have the last word.
I’m a fan of Gretchen. She doesn’t appear to be fake like others. She is also quite an attractive lady. I rarely watch her show (or TV at all for that matter) but do enjoy seeing it once in a great while.
Those comments can be summed up by the one that said "welcome to the shoe is on the other foot". The people who prefer darkness to light are attempting to put out all the light.
"Christmas is a fake pagan festival that has NOTHING to do with Jesus Christ."
We give gifts to our loved ones on Christmas. The birth of Jesus is a gift from God to all of us
Yeah, Christmas was the day Diocletian celebrated, albeit prematurely, that he had annihilated Christianity from the Earth, he was proven wrong not long afterward.
E D Hill was my favorite. Gretchen Carlson was okay. She got on my nerves though when she kept giggling either after she or some other person said something that was not funny
Yes, I saw those comments and was briefly tempted to remark, but trying to discuss Christianity w/ an atheist is akin to discussing Picasso w/ a blind man.
It is now. The Supreme Court has ruled so.
As my wife put it, pray that God will tell us when it is time to leave Sodom and Gomorrah. Just like Lott and his family.
Tell this to the hate Christians crowd. It may go over their heads, then again they may get the point. Most everyone knows what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah and it is no coincidence that Sodomy is named after Sodom.
Yeah, more or less
Why such hate for both God and His followers?
The Evil one hates and he has lots of useful fools.
Genesis 19:26
But Lot's wife looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt
Yup. Exactly.
High tail and don’t look back. And pray to God that you will be one of the righteous when the time comes.
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