Morning Reads With a Post-Victory Glow

Ohhhh, by the way, “What Would Jesus Carry?”

I’ve been getting to bed early the last couple of days so I wasn’t able to respond to Noway’s troll last evening.

It is a testament to Roger Ailes genius as a political propagandist for a half-century that you spout this claptrap as, well, gospel. The “War on Christmas” is a straw man so large that would it do a Druid proud, as well is the supposed war on Christianity. While I will grant there are likely a few antitheists that take issue with Christians, for the most part they also have problems with Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, or even Dawg fans. Speaking for myself, I’m kind of a Jeffersonian in that I like Jesus, it’s just some of his followers I can’t stand. Though being a politician he never actually said that out loud. He did write about his opinions on how Paul bastardized the teachings of Christ.

I also can’t stand politicians and their propagandists who try to mix church and state, also church leaders who spout non-scriptural ideologies as a religion. I hope that there is a hell for those that prey upon others’ belief systems for their own political and/or monetary gains. I seriously doubt that a Creator of the Universe cares if you are a Republican. I also find it hard to believe that a purported follower of Christ would object to the care of the sick and the poor by the government here in Georgia in the absence of a church willing to do it sufficient to their needs. In the meantime the largest Protestant denomination in the state has built themselves a fine palace in Duluth and spent untold amounts on our state’s politics.

Christmas is a made up conglomeration of traditions, mostly pagan, mostly non-scriptural even in the portrayals in church that we called pageants that I participated in as a kid. It’s why the Puritans and other reformation Protestants didn’t believe in its celebration. Hell it is more historically accurate to call it a Holiday Tree than a Christmas Tree no matter how much it bunches your panties.