The Increasingly Hysterical Attempts to Drum Up a War on Christmas

Pro-tip: If you’re spewing as much rage-induced spittle as these morons, it’s unwise to accuse anyone else of being misanthropic. As Atrios notes, right wingers are “rage addicts”. Without misanthropy, O’Reilly wouldn’t have an audience.

Considering that they’re fighting a made-up “war”, they might as well have made-up enemies. None of the atheists they hate actually think they’re going to destroy Christmas by asking the government to obey the First Amendment and not use public resources to endorse Christianity. It will still dominate the radio waves, TV shows, magazines, and consumerist spaces like shops and malls. Indeed, most atheists don’t even care if the government has a generic “holiday season” kind of thing going on, such as draping tinsel on stuff. (I invariably get one or two crotchety types that do want Christmas itself to go away protesting that they exist, so there you go: Your tiny minority is acknowledged. Enjoy.) Most atheists celebrate some kind of holiday, usually the one they grew up with, but they just do it in a way that’s not religious. That’s how much of a strawman Fox News is spending hours and hours bashing in an attempt to scare their shockingly gullible audience