Here is the one hundred forty-fifth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Republican Supply-side pseudo-Jew, Dennis Prager. He is so honored for claiming that the War on Christmas has taught heathen youth to let strangers drown instead of saving them.
[C]onservative radio host Dennis Prager told Fox & Friends on Monday that he says “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy holidays” to honor his country.
During a Christmas Eve interview on Fox & Friends, host Brian Kilmeade asked Prager why it is important to say “Merry Christmas.”…
…“It matters because it’s a national holiday,” Prager explained. “People have to understand, I’m a Jew. Okay? Christmas is not my religious holiday, but Christmas is my national holiday, on de facto and legal grounds. On legal grounds, it’s a national holiday. I honor my country. Number two, the vast majority of my fellow citizens celebrate this holiday.”…“They don’t like ‘In God We Trust’ on our coins, they don’t like Christmas as a national holiday,” Prager complained. “I fear a radically secularized America. I fear it. As a Jew, I fear it.”
“I know what happens when people no longer have a God-based frame of reference for their ethics,” he added. “Two-thirds of the high school kids I’ve asked in the last in the last 40 years, ‘Would you save your dog or a stranger if both were drowning?’ [They] won’t save the stranger because ‘I love my dog, don’t love the stranger.’ But if you have a Judeo-Christian value system, you know that people are created in God’s image, dogs are not.”… [emphasis added]
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What total BS! First if 2/3 of the kids Prager asked really said that, he only asked three, and they were paid and told what to say. One forgot his lines.
Second, as a lifeguard and lifeguard trainer in my youth, I had occasion to rescue several people from drowning over the years. The notion that they were in God’s image never crossed my mind. I did it because I saw people in need of help.
Third, I’m proud to be friends with several atheists, who do not have a "God-based frame of reference". They are more ethical, responsible, and loving than any Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian. The notion that religious is the same as moral is a lie.
Finally, I am a lefty, and I do not hate Christmas. In fact, I am a Christian. Many of the lefties I know are also Christians. We are not waging war on Christmas, nor are the lefties we know. I greet most people with "Merry Christmas" at this time of year. I reserve "Happy Holidays" for Republican-Supply-side pseudo-Christians and one Republican Supply-side pseudo-Jew.
RESIST!!
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I’ll say “Happy Holidays” all that I damned well please! I might say “Merry Christmas” to one or two people who insist on it, but only to be diplomatic. In the large I say “Happy Holidays” because that includes everything and everybody.
Merry, Happy, & Blessed Christmas to you, TC, to one and all !! xo
The argument that Christians are better people then non-Christians as a group because they lean on God’s morals is so flawed I have never seen why anyone would take it seriously. C. S Lewis, for one, disposes of it with an analogy to teeth (which I’ll recast): I , personally, inherited strong teeth. I am 73 and still awaiting my first cavity. If you (or someone) were born with teeth which developed cavities even before you had your permanent ones, and never stopped, no toothpaste is going to give you teeth like mine. If you were born with a depressive disposition, no religion is going to make you into a person to whom people are attracted like a magnet. If you were born and brought up in the Mafia, no religion is going to make you a paragon of honesty.
But the other thing is, Jesus not only never said that Christians would be better people than non-Christians. If anything, he predicted the opposite. “They that are well need not a physician.” In his lifetime many objected to him because he attracted “such awful people.” Two thousand years later, why would that change?
Certainly, if you are a Christian, it should not be unrealistic to expect you to be kinder, more selfless, more ethical than YOU would be IF you were not a Christian. But that is a criterion it is difficult to measure from the outside, and I am not inside anyone’s head but my own. I’m sure this is why he also said “Judge not, that you be not judged.”
Of course, “judge not” does not mean that we should not evaluate the behavior of people we are electing, or considering electing, to govern us. That’s based on behavior and perfectly reasonable. It also does not mean that we have to tolerate people talking or acting like Nazis. Nor do we need to accept people spouting nonsense like Prager (I’d be the first to turn off the TV. Or not turn it on.)
(^^^ Does this look like I hate Christmas? ^^^)
Agree with Joanne’s comment. I personally say “Merry Christmas” to the ones I who do celebrate it. I know people who are of different faith, and have no problems saying “Happy Holidays” to them.
At least, I speak it from the heart, not like tRump who just barks the words out of his mouth, with no feelings what-so-ever.
Well said Joanne. If I know the people I meet and they celebrate Christmas, I say Merry Christmas. If I don’t know them, I say Happy Holidays.
So, I’m an atheist of atheist parents, chose it as it is the only perspective that makes rational sense, as in “One can not understand biology, except through the perspective of evolution.” Culturally, I am Jewish, and I have been saying “Merry Christmas” to anyone I believe is Christian, like a bunch of folks at a Christmas Eve gathering I just came from, and so on.
Christmas is not a national holiday, and if Christians were to attend to the message of things like “Silent Night,” which they are all too quick to sing, we would have much more peace on Earth! The song is originally Austrian, from 1836, I believe, and was written about PEACE! But, NO! How many wars have been joyously joined by God fearing Christians since then? “For God and country?” Not that Jews are little innocents, just ask the Palestinians.
Prager is full of crap, simply put!
As an atheist, I say Merry Christmas to those I know believe. It’s respect for their beliefs. They are the ones celebrating the birth of Christ. I don’t have to believe to give a pleasant Merry Christmas greeting to those who do. It’s not my place to change what the day stands for, or try to ignore what the day stands for. I cannot change what a majority of people have believed for centuries. I know many very nice Christians, but I do have to question their intelligence knowing they base their motivations in an invisible God in the sky. The war on Christmas is a lie invented by some right wing nut job. I do believe the world would be a better place with less religious authority and more do unto others. Reading the Old Testament, their God is a vengeful God where punishment and death are part of God’s tools to control people.
It makes great sense to call a Jew in to save those great Christian traditions, right? And then have him lament as any old angry white male, think up some terrible parables and then start attacking atheists.
As an atheist with a Jewish background, I apologize for people like Prager…Nah. Faux News should apologize for bringing this man onto the screen.
Happy Holidays to Prager.
Hugs to you!