#war on Christmas

[dirigibleplumbing]

if you love Christmas but also want to be kind and inclusive toward people who don't, or simply don't celebrate, here's my #1 tip.

stop lying about Christmas.

if the only "holiday" your holiday party includes is Christmas, call it a Christmas party.

if your "holiday" fandom event only uses Santa and Christmas graphics and is centered around the date of Christmas, call it a Christmas event (that is, presumably, open to non Christmas-celebrating fans).

if your "holiday" fic recs only contain Christmas fic, call it a Christmas rec list.

[republikkkanorcs]

Now this is what a war on Christmas looks like.

[existennialmemes]

Christmas Movie, but it's from the perspective of Jesus Christ, who sneaks back to Earth, and is immediately confused why everyone is celebrating his birthday in December.

He wanders into a Megachurch on accident, thinking it was a mini mall, and hears an evangelist (who lives in a mansion) taking the Lord's name in Vain to guilt donations out of people. Then he gets arrested for rushing the stage and beating that guy with a whip.

A significant chunk of the movie is just his elaborate escape from prison, wherein he starts a riot upon learning how cruelly the prisoners are treated by a blasphemous carceral system.

The movie ends with him using God Magic on the president of the US, and being formally declared the Anti Christ by the Catholic Church

[doctorslippery]

[copperbadge]

I've found it. The leading front of the War on Christmas.

[ID: a photograph of a seasonal decor aisle at Target. The right side has Halloween decorations such as pumpkins, cauldrons, and orange lanterns. The left side contains exclusively Christmas decor including advent calendars, reindeer figurines, and signs reading 'merry and bright'. The tension is palpable.]

[liberalsarecool]

Republicans are all performative.

[zubbyzub]

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Secular Christmas is a scam invented by Christianity to sell more Christianity.

[theconcealedweapon]

If you say "Merry Christmas" to someone and they respond with "Happy Holidays" or "Happy Hanukkah", they're not censoring you. They're not waging a war on Christmas. They're not saying that they're offended by you saying "Merry Christmas". They're not saying that you should have said something else.

They're only using their preferred holiday greeting, just like you did.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was playing a VR rail shooter about the War on Christmas made by fundamentalist Christians. While playing it, I remembered they had made another similar game called Wizard Jesus.

[mysharona1987]

[progressivemillennial]

[randyite]

The Never-ending "War on Christmas"

[existennialmemes]

A Christmas movie, but it's entirely from the perspective of an elf trying to unionize Santa's factory. (Santa is, of course, the villain here.)

[nando161mando]

[ex-catholic-in-new-england]

It’s that time of the year again 😴