Heh.

O’Reilly’s War On Christmas Goes Retail

…It basically works like this. We live in a capitalist society, and consumer spending tends to increase during the Christmas season. To avoid alienating any customers during that peak period, many retailers have their cashiers say “Happy Holidays,” because why not be nice? For centuries and centuries, this was totally fine with everybody because it made a lick of good sense. Then, one year, a bunch of feckless dimwits came to an extraordinary conclusion – saying “Happy Holidays” was “politically correct,” and everyone who practices Christianity had the right to expect a complete stranger to recognize them as a Christmas practitioner by sight and specifically wish them “Merry Christmas,” or else IT WAS WAR. Obviously, this latter position is the one you want to build an entire society around…

Of all the stoopidity (via dday at Digby):

Mad Max and the Meltdown

…And so it will come to pass once again that many people will spend four weeks biting on tongues lest they say “Merry Christmas” and perchance, give offense. Christmas, the holiday that dare not speak its name…

…A nation whose people can’t say “Merry Christmas” is a nation capable of ruining its own economy…

I don’t know about you, but that would make sense to me. If I lived in a country without a freakin’ Constitution:

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…

Article VI

…but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.

See, the “state” doesn’t and isn’t supposed to care if your retail sales person greets you with a “Merry Christmas”, a “Happy Holidays”, or a “Merry Chrismahanaqwanzakah”. It’s their choice. And conversely, you don’t get to demand that everyone else somehow magically divine your preferred greeting and bestow it upon you. That’s how America is supposed to work. Unless you’re a self-centered putz.

And the gems from Daniel Henninger continue:

…It has been my view that the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America has been dangerous…

…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.

Uh, rough translation: People who don’t say “Merry Christmas” are promoting a culture of lawlessness. The Constitution says otherwise. Putz.

I wonder if he gets the irony in Mad Max. Nah.