This sweater proves once and for all that there's a war on Christmas with it's enemies marching in ugly political-pandering sweaters.
Trump Weighs In
"The word 'Christmas.' I love Christmas," he said. "I love Christmas. You go to stores, you don't see the word 'Christmas.' It says 'Happy Holidays' all over. I say, 'Where's Christmas?' I tell my wife, 'Don't go to those stores. I want to see Christmas. I want to see Christmas.' Other people can have their holidays but Christmas is Christmas. I want to see 'Merry Christmas.' Remember the expression 'Merry Christmas'? You don't see it anymore. You're going to see it if I get elected, I can tell you right now."
Lest he forget:
And BTW: Trump's own Hotel Collection sent out a greeting with Happy Holidays.
Cup-Gate
Does anyone remember the Red Cup controversy of three weeks ago?
CNBC
This
year's holiday cup design is simplistic: an ombre from bright red to dark
cranberry. While some Twitter users have praised the minimalist design, others
think the cups are a "war on Christmas.
Joshua Feuerstein, a former television and radio evangelist with more than 1.8
million followers on Facebook, took to the platform to comment on Starbucks'
new cups.
"Starbucks removed Christmas from their cups because they hate
Jesus," he wrote, asking followers to use the hashtag
#MerryChristmasStarbucks and to ask baristas to write "Merry
Christmas" on their cups instead of their names.
Starbucks
hates Jesus? With all the references to Christmas on other Starbucks products,
this statement proves that there are at least 1.8 million crackpots in America.
The Original War On Christmas
Let's face it: in a sense, there's been a war on Christmas ever since Santa
Claus - that bastion of commercialism - was created. Of course, Santa's ode
ends in "Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night,"* but
that's about as religious as he gets. Santa is NOT a religious symbol as the
Nativity. When you think of it, Santa is rather unChristian, giving to only
"good little boys and girls." St Nicholas probably gave gifts to
everyone regardless of goodness, but he nonetheless morphed into a retail
bonanza, with threats across the country to "be good or else ..." And
the beloved trappings of Christmas like Tchaikovsky's "The
Nutcracker" are definitely secular: was the Christ child ever mentioned in
"Miracle on 34th Street?" Or "How The Grinch Stole
Christmas?"
But the present War on Christmas is perhaps,in reality, a war on the
inclusiveness of "Happy Holidays." "This is OUR holiday, not
yours. How dare you preempt it with such a meaningless phrase? Why this adamant
opposition to inclusiveness? Why this possessiveness of a spirit of goodwill?
"The Season of Sharing" is lessened by the mean-spirited exclusivity
of pastors and pandering politicians.
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