{"id":4042,"date":"2010-12-21T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/war-on-christmas-korea-style.html"},"modified":"2010-12-21T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:28:00","slug":"war-on-christmas-korea-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/war-on-christmas-korea-style.html","title":{"rendered":"War on Christmas Korea style"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So South Korea has a Christmas tree lit up along the DMZ<\/a>.\u00a0 And this is a provocative act.\u00a0 Why is it a provocative act?\u00a0 Because North Korea is founded upon the idea that religion is bad and evil and societies \u2013 like North Korea \u2013 that embrace atheism will be where all the brights go to live out their Utopian dreams:<\/p>\n

\u201cNorth Korea, officially atheist and with only a handful of sanctioned churches in Pyongyang with services for foreigners, warned that lighting the tree would constitute a \u201cdangerous, rash act\u201d with the potential to trigger a war.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just like they have in China and just like they did in the USSR.\u00a0 The sad thing?\u00a0 Despite such obvious contradictions to the \u2018imagine no religion\u2019 mantra of the progressive movement, many still believe ridding ourselves of that pesky religious stuff is a key to peace and joy to all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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