Posted on 12/07/2004 9:40:36 AM PST by MizSterious
Christmas Under Siege: The Big Picture
Tuesday, December 07, 2004
By Bill O'Reilly
Christmas under siege — the big picture. That is the subject of this evening's "Talking Points Memo."
All over the country, Christmas is taking flak. In Denver this past weekend, no religious floats were permitted in the holiday parade there. In New York City, Mayor Bloomberg unveiled the holiday tree and no Christian Christmas symbols are allowed in the public schools. Federated Department Stores, [that's] Macy's, have done away with the Christmas greeting, "Merry Christmas."
Now, all of this anti-Christian stuff is absurd, and may even be a bias situation. But the real reason it's happening has little to do with Christmas and everything to do with organized religion.
Secular progressives realize that America as it is now will never approve of gay marriage, partial birth abortion, euthanasia, legalized drugs, income redistribution through taxation, and many other progressive visions because of religious opposition.
But if the secularists can destroy religion in the public arena, the brave new progressive world is a possibility. That's what happened in Canada.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Hey, what happened to my post!
I responded by saying that the world is full of Scrooges. He changed for the better and so can these kill joys. Merry Christmas y'all!
Oh, really? When was the last time you saw a column in the NY Times decrying the dismanteling of Christmas? How about on one of the networks--even Fox? I'm not an O'Reilly fan, and usually change the channel before he comes on--but give the guy some credit: he called this one right. As some have suggested, he could be the proverbial broken clock.
I am impressed. I really didn't think that O'Reilly could see what was happening. Now, if we could strip off the final veil and acknowledge that "progressives" really means communists then we'd be dealing with the truth.
Moral Absolutes Ping.
How can O'Reilly get it sometimes and be completely off other times (much of the time)?
He's right here. Except instead of the word "progressive" he should use "leftist".
Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
I'm sorry. But defending Christmas just isn't a big deal to me. You don't get any special credit for coming down against the ACLU, for crying out loud. No offense to you. I'm glad you appreciate it.
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my FoxFan list. *Warning: This can be a high-volume ping list at times.
Thanks for the ping!
Thanks for the ping.
THE CHRISTMAS LINKS PAGE
http://www.truthusa.com/CHRISTmas.html
Same here, will wear the pin PROUDLY!
Merry CHRISTMAS!
Did anyone notice that Bill kinda lost it a little bit at the end of the show? He was slurring, giggling and squinting. It was only the last five minutes, but it seemed like he suddenly got wasted!
Happy Chanuka!
I missed last night's show, but I gave the Newsweak issue a glance today--the article seems to want to bash all that we believe about Jesus' miraculous birth--but was too timid to come right out with it, or at least as much as they'd like. My impression was that they think all of us who believe the Christmas story are ignorant superstitious knuckle draggers. Well, fine, I think they're all a bunch of stuckup snobbish brutish louts.
I confess, I didn't watch it all the way to the end. :)
Grinch Alert!
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