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The Atheist War on Christmas and Christians Goes Asian by Gene Lalor
Just when it looked as if the annual War on Christmas was showing signs the good guys were winning, the other side pops up and does something stupidly outrageous to demonstrate how stupid and outrageous they are.
Admittedly, the positive signs that Christians were winning were minimal in the first place but when the head of the Catholic Defense League, Bill Donohue, sees room for optimism there has to be some hope. Then there's the unfortunate reality that, hope or not, the War on Christmas is still raging across the land-and across the Pacific Ocean.
Invariably, the forces of darkness are led by nihilistic atheists, domestic and foreign, dedicated to little else but negativism.
Personally, I don't care if someone is an atheist and worships old socks, pink gerbils, or the almighty dollar instead of the Almighty. However, in a nation in which 96% of the population celebrates Christmas, actively campaigning against December 25th as either a holiday or a holy day is an intolerable, un-American annoyance.
It's also an infringement on the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of religion and free speech.
Out on the Left Coast, a 57 year old Christmas tradition is being attacked by the usual horde of atheists employing an unusually subtle yet still pernicious tactic, gobbling up most of alloted public spaces to celebrate the winter solstice instead of Christmas.
For those fifty seven years, a group of churches in Santa Monica has traditionally erected 14 life-size displays depicting a variety of Nativity. This year, they are reduced to two, the other spaces alloted to out of town atheists who have filled two "solstice greetings" spots ranting against religion while monopolizing a total of 18.
In government courts, that should be considered an illegal restraint of religion and of a national holiday.
Hunter Jameson, a spokesperson for the churches, contends what the atheists are doing smacks of collusion and "that these new applicants have been working together to displace and push out the Nativity scenes from the park, rather than erecting a full display of their own."
There's no smacking involved at all. It's just another battle in the American atheist War on Christmas.
Reflecting the truism that wars tend to widen, battles in that war have now spread to the Korean Peninsula.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), where people are so poor and desperate they are known to eat the bark off trees, the atheistic, Communist leaders have taken great umbrage over their slaves viewing Christmas trees in the prosperous and actually democratic Republic of Korea (ROK).
The North Koreans warned of "unexpected consequences" and alleged it was political propaganda for their South Korean neighbor's granting authorization to evangelical Christians to illuminate three giant trees within view of the bark-eaters on the other side of the DMZ.
Officially an atheist state, the DPRK was for centuries traditionally and primarily Buddhist and Confucianist. Now home to a smattering of unfortunate Christians, of the 400,000 Christians in North Korea, some 50,000 to 70,000 currently reside in labor camps, according to the religious freedom group, Open Doors.
The North considers any organized religion as a threat and is regarded as the worst place in the world to be a Christian, perhaps excepting Santa Monica.
There is, in fact, a propagandistic element in the brightly-lit 100 foot trees, not as much religious propaganda but propagandistic in that the Korean evangelicals are trying to express support for their fellow Koreans in the DPRK in the hope that some day there will be one, unified Korea.
Wishing and hoping are especially welcome during the Christmas season, though not among the Kim Jong-il ruling despots of North Korea where electricity is rationed, blackouts common, and celebrating Christmas as uncommon as eating regularly.
In the interests of national unity and peace, the Christmas tree lights were banned in the ROK from 2004 until last year when the Aegibong tree was lit up for more than two weeks in reaction to an unprovoked attack by the DPRK.
Whether the North Koreans will follow through on their implicit threats of "unexpected consequences" from Christmas trees is anyone's guess. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. Whether they form an alliance with their kindred atheist spirits in Santa Monica is also speculative.
One real certainty is that the War on Christmas and Christians continues. Another is that Denver Bronco quarterback, Tim Tebow, is giving those atheists a run for their money.
(See all sources at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=10565.)
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