I saw this seasonal offering over at NaturalNews.com, abode of the Health Ranger, Mike Adams, who never met a fruit, nut or raw vegetable that didn't agree with him.
On the subject of "Merry Christmas", Mike is very much a traditionalist, as his latest anti-PC rant reveals:
Here's a Merry Christmas to all the NaturalNews readers from the Health Ranger. And yes, I do specifically mean Merry Christmas. I don't mean just "Happy Holidays" or "happy winter break" or even "happy end-of-year time off." What I mean is Merry Christmas. That's the holiday name I grew up with and I'm sticking to it. :-)
On this merry Christmas, I feel compelled to comment about the ongoing effort to sterilize the English language by removing any words that might dare to impart meaning. I've read reports that certain people feel "offended" by the term Christmas, and I've watched as public schools have morphed their own descriptions of the Christmas break, removing the word "Christmas" and replacing it with "Holiday" as in "Holiday break" or "winter break."
The politically-correct language police have, once again, gone too far. This effort to sterilize the language of Christmas only serves to dumb down the children and remove any real meaning from words so that nobody might choose to feel offended by them. Words that say nothing, it seems, are more acceptable in our modern world where political correctness trumps authentic communication.
The problem with this approach is that when you sterilize the language, you also remove most of the meaning from the words, leaving an empty shell of strung-together syllables that are designed to say absolutely nothing....
This sort of rant makes such a refreshing contrast to Christopher's spoilsport take on "Merry Christmas", although as some of you may recall, the old boy has finally come around to mouthing, tongue in cheek, the offending greeting. I've linked to the holier-than-thou RDSTC (Richad Dawkins Supreme Truth Cult) site — "A CLEAR-THINKING OASIS" — because its always a lot of fun to read the swoons of the loons, the slights of the brights and the fantasies of the fanboy followers who fill the pews of their Church of Sanitology.
“The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant." • "If it is an offense to justice to hold people who may have been victims of mistaken identity or of vendettas by other factions, then it is also an offense to justice to release psychopathic killers who believe that they have divine permission to throw acid in the faces of girls who want to attend school." • "Don't be such a lesbian!
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