Okay.
*Takes a deep breath*
You all know how the manufactured "War on Christmas" crap drives me completely around the bend.
Well, I've just read something so mind-explodingly stupid that I'm having serious questions regarding my sanity. Daniel Henninger has written an Op-Ed in the WSJ stating...
I can't believe I'm about to type this.
The reason we are in our current financial crisis is because...
*Deep sigh*
Because we don't say "Merry Christmas."
No, seriously.
This year we celebrate the desacralized "holidays" amid what is for many unprecedented economic ruin -- fortunes halved, jobs lost, homes foreclosed. People wonder, What happened? One man's theory: A nation whose people can't say "Merry Christmas" is a nation capable of ruining its own economy.
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It has been my view that the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America has been dangerous. That danger flashed red in the fall into subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers, who after all are just people. Northerners and atheists who vilify Southern evangelicals are throwing out nurturers of useful virtue with the bathwater of obnoxious political opinions.
The point for a healthy society of commerce and politics is not that religion saves, but that it keeps most of the players inside the chalk lines. We are erasing the chalk lines.
Feel free: Banish Merry Christmas. Get ready for Mad Max.
Excuse me. I'm going to go bang my head against the wall for about twenty minutes.
Back. Whew, hey, look at all the pretty colors!
Yes, apparently you can't say "Merry Christmas," even if you want to. Apparently we're all wearing voice-activated shock collars or something. And somehow, because people "can't" say "Merry Christmas," we're all about to lose every cent we have and start wrestling sweatily in domes made out of scrapped SUV's while Tina Turner laughs like a maniac.
Okay, that's it. ENOUGH. It's over. THE WAR ON CHRISTMAS HAS OFFICIALLY JUMPED THE SHARK. This has gone beyond parody; it's officially now The Most Incredibly Fucking Stupid Idea On Earth. ENOUGH. I swear to Jebus, the next person that starts spouting this crap is going to find me hot-gluing a Christmas Sweater to their goddamn torso. CHRIST.
(Hand-shaking tip of the energy dome to digby.)
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