Just In Time For The War On Christmas: ‘America’s War On Christianity’

by Talking Points Memo | 8:46 am, December 24th, 2010

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If you were looking for the perfect stocking stuffer for the non-Jews and Muslims on your holiday gift list, World Net Daily Books had just the answer with their new book America’s War on Christianity, which was released just in time for the War on Christmas.

World Net Daily was kind enough to send a review copy of the book, which author Brad O’Leary says he wrote because President Barack Obama “declared that America is not a Christian nation.”

Despite the fact that 76 percent of Americans identify themselves as Christians, O’Leary maintains there’s not only a War on Christmas, but a war on the entire religion as well.

“The Judeo-Christian vaules upon which America was founded are under attack,” the book begins. O’Leary, a WorldNet Daily columnist and right-wing radio host, writes that “the current war is divided into two camps.”

“On one side, we have religion and freedom. On the other side, we have atheism and totalitarianism,” O’Leary writes.

O’Leary opens his book with Obama’s visit to Georgetown University in April 2009. In what O’Leary dubs the “Georgetown Cover-up,” the White House requested that religious signage and symbols be covered up. Left out of O’Leary’s narrative: Obama quoted from Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount during that very speech.

Amongst O’Leary’s other complaints: the Capitol Visitors Center has no references to God and instead serves as a “shrine to the power of government, man, and secular causes.”

Just like many of those on Fox News, he’s also frustrated around the holiday season.

“In cities and towns across America, public nativity scenes are treated like pornography every Christmastime, and the phrase ‘Merry Christmas’ has become a veritable slur,” O’Leary writes. “Each year, dozens of communities experience ‘Baby Jesus theft,’ a literal robbing of the cradle,” he continues.

The author also rails against hate crimes laws which protect gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals from being targeted because of their sexual orientation.

“Secular extremists have long pushed for so-called hate crimes laws (which are actually ‘ thought crimes’ laws) to provide additional criminal penalties for crimes committed against homosexuals and transgendered people,” O’Leary writes.

“However, many refer to such a national hate/thought crimes bill as the ‘Pedophile Protection Act’ because in the process of extending special federal protection to individuals on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, the majority in the U.S. House has refused to exclude any of the 547 forms of sexual deviancy or ‘paraphilias’ listed by the American Psychiatric Association, including pedophilia,” O’Leary writes.

O’Leary believes that that academia and Hollywood are aligned against Christians because of movies like “The DaVinci Code.” He also takes on Jon Stewart, who he says “identifies himself as a socialist” and “likes to mock those who try to point out there’s an anti-Christian culture war going on.”

“The mainstream media believes that America must be delivered from Christianity for the good of all of us,” O’Leary writes.

This post was written by Ryan J. Reilly for Talking Points Memo and is repurposed here via a content sharing agreement.

War On Christmas

skyfet

World net daily, that name in itself makes this article irrelevant.
Just4thefax

Fact: Flag burners, Anti pledge sayers, No crosses anywhere, Separation of church and state liars, No Flag displayed on your house and Christmas is only should be observed as Happy Holiday are all lumped together will be over ran one item at a time until all are back to a normal state!
Just4thefax

skyfet said:
World net daily

Fact: WND.com is a great source for news items! Top Knotch organisation!
skyfet

Just4thefax said:
Fact: WND.com is a great source for news items! Top Knotch organisation!

For morons like you.
Davo

Never try to teach a Liberal about TRUTH. It just wastes your time and annoys the Liberal.
Powerslave

I’m an atheist. I believe in the seperation of church and state. That being said I believe that many of the atheists who wage a war on christianity are the same people who demand that muslims get seperate treatment and special protection under the law. They decry the manger scene in front of a church in their neighborhood yet demand that the ground zero mosque be built.

It’s all political bullshit. The head of the American atheists admits that his target is the christian right.

The christian left and any other religion (islam included) gets a pass. And if you don’t think there’s a christian left, tell it to the reverands Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.

If we live under ANY type of sharia law in this country someday it will be because of people like those who call themselves atheist for political reasons only.
James Nelson

Just4thefax said:
Fact: Flag burners, Anti pledge sayers, No crosses anywhere, Separation of church and state liars, No Flag displayed on your house and Christmas is only should be observed as Happy Holiday are all lumped together will be over ran one item at a time until all are back to a normal state!

Judging from your usual posts, and the expletives included, you seem to have your own war on Christianity.
Just4thefax

skyfet said:
For morons like you.

James Nelson said:
Judging from your usual posts, and the expletives included, you seem to have your own war on Christianity.

Fact: The only thing that has a stench of ass plus being Non-Christen with a feel of a butt itch are morons like you two!
James Nelson

Just4thefax said:
Fact: The only thing that has a stench of ass plus being Non-Christen with a feel of a butt itch are morons like you two!

And once again, your fake Christianity cannot cover up your filthy command and butchering of the English language. Cannot you grow up a little?
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

skyfet says:
“World net daily, that name in itself makes this article irrelevant.”

Indeed! It’s the home of birtherism and other, right-wing fictions.

The only “war on Christmas” is the one in the minds of arrogant, conservative Christians who refuse to recognize that non-Christians have holidays to celebrate this time of year too. Like many right-wing fictitious memes that Fox Fake News replicates, it is all in their heads.

Happy holidays everyone (except Just4thefax, the anti-Christian. You can suck eggs!)
da-wdc

[blockquote]O’Leary opens his book with Obama’s visit to Georgetown University in April 2009. In what O’Leary dubs the “Georgetown Cover-up,” the White House requested that religious signage and symbols be covered up.[/blockquote]

Well, this is a lie. I happen to know some people who worked on the event. The White House asked for a standard, simple backdrop, so coverings were put over University signage. There was no specific request to hide religious symbols. The author just doesn’t care about the facts. Lying to your readers doesn’t seem very Christian to me. And why is this man so angry? Besides the fact that it helps him sell books?
Just4thefax

James Nelson said:
And once again, your fake Christianity cannot cover up your filthy command and butchering of the English language. Cannot you grow up a little?

Fact: Show me the Bible passage that you follow that condemns my English language and I will not call you by it next time dipshit maggot! I’ll start calling you thumper short for the Bible thumper!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Leah-Ma/1391341060 Leah Ma

I am a liberal and I fully believe in God, Jesus and Buddha. I do not believe in organized religion though. I believe in people having meetings in their own homes for whatever religious purposes they desire. When religion becomes too organized and too powerful, abuses begin appearing and I think we all know what those many abuses are, don’t we? I trust that I don’t need to catalogue the entire list of abuses, do I? I’m not even going into a religion which has a type of law which allows the beheading of 13 year old girls for flirting. I believe if a person fully believes in their religion and practices it, in a manner which harms no one; then God is in one’s heart. If God is always in one’s heart; then one need never step into the possibly corrupting influence of a church building and the people who reside there.
Raygun

““On one side, we have religion and freedom. On the other side, we have atheism and totalitarianism,” O’Leary writes.”"

On the one side we have freedom and tolerance, on the other side we have Christian nationalism and theocracy.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Leah-Ma/1391341060 Leah Ma

Oh, as for America being a ‘Christian’ nation–well, first of all, there are many other faiths; but, second of all; I am absolutely certain that many of the people who today call themselves Christians would not be recognized as such by Jesus. HE never hated others! He never judged others! He never treated others in a disrespectful manner as I have seen SO MANY Christians do. He never lied about others and then shunned them because of the lies he had made up about them. (Try growing up in a small rural southern Illinois town. They call them toxic towns and those who are not affected by it don’t even realize it’s going on.)
So, no, this is NOT a Christian nation simply because most of these people do not qualify. I am truly sorry. I wish more people did qualify. It’s so much easier, nicer living around good people, not to mention intelligent. I have met some truly nice people with whom it was difficult to hold a conversation but I slowly educate them and that’s okay. They are some of the best people I know, those that are willing to learn. The willingness to learn, an open mind is so important in human development.
shootfromthehip

Well said, Leah.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Leah-Ma/1391341060 Leah Ma

Never try to teach a conservative anything at all. It apparently strains their brains terribly.