Bryan Fischer says he’s not going to refer to the war on Christmas anymore. Is he finding rationality? Of course not. He’s just decided that the non-existent war on Christmas is really a non-existent war on Christ. Works for me. Can’t Christ defend himself? He is all-powerful, after all.
Dec 03 2012
Fischer: War on Christmas = War on Christ
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Chiroptera
December 3, 2012 at 10:39 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Makes sense to me. If there is one phrase that describes the Puritan settlers in New England, it’s “anti-Christ.”
jamessweet
December 3, 2012 at 10:44 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
And in a tit-for-tat, the Illuminati Atheist Conspiracy has announced that from now on, Jesus Christ will be referred to as “Happy Holiday Stick Man”.
Gwynnyd
December 3, 2012 at 10:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
If I promise to keep the Christ in Christmas, will he promise to keep the Thor in Thursday and the Saturn in Saturday? They’re *right there* in the name of the day!
Kevin
December 3, 2012 at 10:53 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Works for me, too.
In fact, oddly enough, I think he’s right.
It’s perfectly possible to have a splendid Christmas without Christ. I celebrate “the holidays” with nary a thought about Jesus. Have for decades.
matty1
December 3, 2012 at 10:56 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Glad to see he is getting into the whole season of goodwill thing. Nothing says Christmas like a bitter rant against anyone not like you.
abb3w
December 3, 2012 at 10:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Judges 6:31?
eric
December 3, 2012 at 10:59 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Coming next year: War on Easter = War on East.
matty1
December 3, 2012 at 11:02 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@7 We have always been at war with East
Randomfactor
December 3, 2012 at 11:05 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Matty1, 1 internet to you.
Nah, he’s got it all wrong. The war on Christmas is a war on “mas.”
“¡No mas!” we say. “¡No mas!”
vmanis1
December 3, 2012 at 11:07 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
abb3w: I didn’t even know there was a War on Baalsday. Thanks for the heads-up!
matty1
December 3, 2012 at 11:08 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Yay, can you send it as a absolutelynotjesuschrist-mas present?
Zinc Avenger (Sarcasm Tags 3.0 Compliant)
December 3, 2012 at 11:21 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Begun, the Christ War has.
Michael Heath
December 3, 2012 at 11:23 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So is the “War on Christ” a war on religion or a war on philosophy?
imrryr
December 3, 2012 at 11:36 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I think that pundits and their constant overuse of the word “war” constitute a war on the real meaning of war.
raven
December 3, 2012 at 11:41 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Sure.
Don’t forget to keep the Janus in January, the Maia in May, Juno in June, and Julius Caesar in July.
cptdoom
December 3, 2012 at 11:43 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
So it’s a war on God if people who don’t believe in that God don’t use that God’s name in describing a holiday. I believe that’s what’s known as “logic” to Fisher.
Larry
December 3, 2012 at 11:46 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
To the True Christian©, ranting against people not like yourself is not just a seasonal event, it’s a full-time career.
w00dview
December 3, 2012 at 12:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The fact that wingnuts demand 100% agreement on EVERYTHING, even over how you call the name of a freaking holiday shows what uptight, joyless control freaks they are.
I mean really, someone saying “happy holidays” to you counts as a war? For fucks sake. Get in the holiday spirit and just loosen the fuck up for once, could ya!
matty1
December 3, 2012 at 12:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@18 Exactly, it’s almost like they don’t want people to celebrate just sit around sobbing in terror at the gaycommunistmuslim menace.
tsig
December 3, 2012 at 1:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
I’d say Christ needs all the help he can get, after all the last time all it took was some Romans with hammers to nail him up.
Sastra
December 3, 2012 at 2:39 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
The “War on Christ” as this gentleman calls it is getting a lot of support from what he’d consider an unexpected source: the people who worry about the so-called “War on Christmas” and want the phrase “Merry Christmas” to be generally used, rather than the more inclusive “Happy Holidays.”
They have not thought this one out.
Nothing is going to take the ‘Christ’ out of Christmas faster and more efficiently than non-christians using the phrase as a generic greeting. You say “Merry Christmas” to Christians, Jews, Muslims, pagans, atheists — everyone. And they all say it back to you! And each other! See? It’s not about Jesus! It’s just a word used for the winter celebration! Inclusive! Isn’t that jolly!
Isn’t that what you want? No? Oh. Too late. Sucker.
They wouldn’t be whining about “Jesus is the Reason for the Season” and “Keep the Christ in Christmas” if they weren’t concerned that a lot of people DON’T. Not just Christians. Atheists and pagans and many Jews often have little problems with “Christmas.” Only the sincerely devout in other religions seem to want to grant Christmas to the Christians — but they’re fighting an uphill battle. 90% or more of the things associated with Christmas have jack all to do with some direct, exclusive connection with Christianity. Add to that its many pagan origins and there’s no need to consider it a religious holiday — let alone one exclusive to a particular sect.
Then comes the rise of the nones, future generations, most of whom will grow up celebrating secular Christmas and have only the fuzziest idea what that baby-and-savior stuff is about. Nor will they know the ‘reindeer games.’ So what?
What the hell did they THINK would happen when Christmas was declared a national holiday? That everyone would turn Christian in order to celebrate it? No. It meant it was secular.
And it’s going to become more and more secularized with every “Merry Christmas!” said by one non-believer to another. Of course. It’s being made generic. They should have argued to keep it in the church if they wanted it kept special and sacred. “Merry Christmas” as a prayer. Not a public spectacle.
Merry Christmas, Fischer. Thanks to you and yours for advancing our War on Christ.
Ho ho ho.
Ichthyic
December 3, 2012 at 4:13 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Better ask Bill-o, just to be on the safe side.
Ichthyic
December 3, 2012 at 4:14 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
or that they’re just RWAs.
w00dview
December 3, 2012 at 4:50 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
@ Ichthyic
Ah, the Authoritarians. Fascinating and frightening read in equal measure.
Ichthyic
December 4, 2012 at 12:49 am (UTC -4) Link to this comment
yup.
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