Seasons Greetings

(cartoon by Andy Singer)
I don't think many things are worth a fight, and I usually give in to keep peace. This business about Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas seems minor and really silly on the surface - just something for the talk hosts to keep their minions blood pressure spiked but it is really about much more. What the fight is about is tolerance....the principle the Religious Right hates most. They are not a tolerant people
*not of realistic sex education for folks at the most intense hormonal stage of their life
* not of geology, taxonomy or biology in schools
*not of compassion for dying people who want relief
*not of ideas of agnostics, atheists, secular humanists or any other faith other than Christianity
*not of women other than as chattel
*not of people who want to love unconventionally
*not of disadvantaged people who accept government aid
*not of environmentalists (this is strange but true).

Let us just suppose we gave in to their every wish and the RR got their way on every issue. What then? I predict that if they ruled things, they would fight amongst themselves. If I used my town as a little microcosm of this perfect world (since it is far right in philosophy, legislative members, population in general) I would note that each Christian sect dislikes and is intolerant of the others. My town of 5,000 has 18 churches, and this slays me, four of them Lutheran as they cannot agree even within a sect. The Assembly of God church is the fastest growing because it puts on the most intense show and has even added on a gymnasium to attract children. Each and every church gives a portion of their income to missionary work because infecting others is a primary focus. If they were allowed vouchers to set up their own schools and given a chance at the charity money, this fighting would intensify even more.

Anyway, I want to wish everyone a Happy Holiday (not a Merry Christmas) from an Apathetic Agnostic, secular humanist here in lonely Christianized Montana.