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(46,345 posts)
Fri Dec 18, 2015, 11:39 AM Dec 2015

The origins in the US of the "War On Christmas," something Faux "news" will never mention...

Of course Faux "news" never will mention it.
Just like they never mention the overt and sometimes open racism on Faux.


Here is a gem from the past:

"And it has become pretty general. Last Christmas most people had a hard time finding Christmas cards that indicated in any way that Christmas commemorated Someone's Birth."

Where and when did this appear? Take a guess. Bill O'Reilly? Wrong. Again. World Net Daily? Nope...
Here is some more of the text:

"Easter they will have the same difficulty in finding Easter cards that contain any suggestion that Easter commemorates a certain event. There will be rabbits and eggs and spring flowers, but a hint of the Resurrection will be hard to find."

Still not clear?

"Now, all this begins with the designers of the cards. And even in this business one comes upon that same policy of declaring Anti-Semitic everything that is Christian. If Rabbi Coffey says the New Testament is the most Anti-Semitic book ever written, what must be the judgement on an Easter card that is truly an Easter card?"

Getting an inkling? How about this text?

"There has not been any 'persecution' of the Jews in the United States and never will be any, but all that the Jews have had to carry in the way of misunderstanding has been the result of the leadership which has misled them into paths of bloated ambition, instead of substantial human achievement."

Year? 1921. Source? One of the nastiest antisemitic tracts ever published in English: The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem, Chapter 36.

Originally published as an article, "'Jewish Rights' to Put Studies Out of Schools," THE DEARBORN INDEPENDENT, issue of 19 March 1921. Collected in: Henry Ford and the staff of the Dearborn Independent, The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem. 1920-1922, Vols. 1-4. Chapter 36: "Jewish Rights" to Put Studies Out of Schools.

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The origins in the US of the "War On Christmas," something Faux "news" will never mention... (Original Post) Archae Dec 2015 OP
That's why I refer to some Christians sharp_stick Dec 2015 #1
+100000000000000000000000000000000000000! nt 2naSalit Dec 2015 #2

sharp_stick

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1. That's why I refer to some Christians
Fri Dec 18, 2015, 12:05 PM
Dec 2015

as permavictims. They're just not happy unless they can point to being persecuted by some imaginary boogeyman.

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