The public voice of this defense of Christmas against the oppressive forces of "secular progressives" is FOX News blowhard Bill O'Reilly, who explains things this way:
See, I think it's all part of the secular progressive agenda... to get Christianity and spirituality and Judaism out of the public square. Because if you look at what happened in Western Europe and Canada, if you can get religion out, then you can pass secular progressive programs like legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will, gay marriage, because the objection to those things is religious- based, usually.
See, when that seemingly nice lady at Walgreens says, "Happy Holidays," it means she wants to get wasted, kill her sick parents, have an abortion, and marry that butch chick that works at the photo counter. And the only way she'll be able to carry out her nefarious plan is to destroy Christmas.
Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense. But, then again, it doesn't really have to. He's not speaking to the concerns of deep thinkers here. O'Reilly, who doesn't really strike me as someone who'd be overly familiar with the inside of a church, pulls this "war" out of his butt every year for the right wing religious nuts in his audience.
Meanwhile, there's an actual war on Christians going on and Bill's a big fan. "It may be the end of Christianity in Iraq," Bishop Antoine Audo of Aleppo, Syria told Catholic News Service. "This is very sad and very dangerous for the church, for Iraq and even for Muslim people, because it means the end of an old experience of living together."...
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