Merry Christmas - happy holidays?

[El Kabong]

Most people in the world are not Christians. They dominate political discourse, so it is quite funny winding them up about their insecurities, particularly because it will not be me who pays the price, but sadly some poor villagers in Syria or Iraq...

1. True
2. False, there are PLENTY of people of different religious affiliations that are involved in politics and a growing number of atheists and agnostics
3. I wonder if it would be as funny if you were talking about winding up someone of a different faith
4. Like there are not Christians in those places and also why would a "War on Christmas" have ANYTHING to do with Iraq or Syria?

1. We agree

2. You cannot be President of the USA without being a 'active' Christian; my Country (the UK) also has an 'active' Christian leader. who recently destroyed in an election his two atheist rivals. There is no place for an atheist in politics in the UK.

3. Yes I wind up all members of all faiths. But at the same time I try to envision a line that I try not to cross, but I admit I probably do every now and again. It is one thing to say 'Happy Holidays!' to my Christian friend who gets really annoyed by such a comment, but it is quite another to say burn their bible.

4. Sorry; but I still see red on the subject despite it being a decade since my then Prime Minister Tony Blair admitted to praying with your then President Bush (Junior), whilst deciding what to do about Iraq in 2002/03. Such comments really make me understand why so many Muslims in Iraq and sadly now Syria think the bombings in their Countries are a 'Modern Crusade'.

1. Good, always happy to find common ground

2. Well all have been Christian but there are several different kinds of Christian no? Hoover & Nixon were Quaker, Andrew Johnson and Abe Lincoln weren't Bible beaters by any stretch of the imagination and were thought to be nonreligious. Grant and Hayes were non-denominational. JFK was Catholic. A couple Presidents were Unitarian, a couple Episcopal, a few Presbyterian, a few Congregationalists, a few Dutch Reformed.

3. Good for you that you know there is a line not to cross. It's a showing of respect and that's admirable.


4. Iraq was getting invaded and it's not because they were brown people, not because they're Muslim people, not because of 9/11 or weapons of mass destruction....they may have been floated up as the reasons but there was something else....oil....maybe though can't say we really rolled around in low cost gas here right after the invasion. Perception is reality though so I guess if people are dumb enough to believe it's a crusade then that is their reality....never been that in my eyes. I just want our soldiers to do their jobs, win, and come home safely.