You can be skeptical and friendly at the same time.
Earlier this month, the city of Piedmont, Alabama changed the theme of its annual Christmas parade from “Let’s Keep Christ in Christmas” to the more generic “Piedmont Christmas Parade” after a warning letter from the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Looks like Montgomery, Louisiana never received that message. They’re advertising their annual Christmas celebration on Facebook with a peculiar description line:
I know Kirk Cameron‘s Saving Christmas is the worst movie of all time, but Saving Christmas 2 is going to be *amazing*… because it seems to be produced by the same people who brought you Saw.
(This would be a good time for the NSFW tag. Lots of violence.)
The town of Jay, Florida has had a Nativity scene in front of City Hall for the past 40 years, a clear promotion of Christianity by the local government. When the Freedom From Religion Foundation sent town officials a letter last week explaining this problem, they offered a possible solution — one they suggested to a neighboring town a couple of years ago:
Forget the penis necklace from yesterday. You should show up to your family’s holiday get-together in this lovely and warm Satanic sweater:
Churches are welcome to openly celebrate Christmas. So are individual families, who can put up Nativity scenes in their yards.
But when the local fire department begins promoting the birth of Jesus — by putting up a sign out front that says “Happy Birthday Jesus” and “We Love You” as if they were children — they’ve clearly crossed the line. They might as well put up a sign that says “Jews Don’t Matter” since the implication is already there.
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