{"id":4121,"date":"2010-12-08T06:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/then-again-maybe-the-war-on-christmas-does-reveal-a-few-things-after-all.html"},"modified":"2010-12-08T06:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T06:10:00","slug":"then-again-maybe-the-war-on-christmas-does-reveal-a-few-things-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/then-again-maybe-the-war-on-christmas-does-reveal-a-few-things-after-all.html","title":{"rendered":"Then again, maybe the &#8216;War on Christmas&#8217; does reveal a few things after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>As I\u2019ve already said, I\u2019m of two minds about the annual controversy.\u00a0 On one hand, it seems a whole lot of hot air by folks who have little else to do than blow hot air.\u00a0 And yet, on the other hand, it does point to things, troubling things, threatening things.\u00a0 I\u2019m too much of an old history salt do just toss my hands up and say nothing to worry about here.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholic.org\/clife\/advent\/story.php?id=39469&amp;page=1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">As this story from Catholic Online<\/a> reminds us, things may seem silly, but their results are usually not.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>And speaking of euphemisms from an earlier post.\u00a0 The greatest Euphemism of all is Political Correctness.\u00a0 Let\u2019s call a spade a spade.\u00a0 Political Correctness has become nothing other than\u00a0censorship and oppression sanctioned by forces united for a more secularized and progressive society.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I\u2019ve already said, I\u2019m of two minds about the annual controversy.\u00a0 On one hand, it seems a whole lot of hot air by folks who have little else to do than blow hot air.\u00a0 And yet, on the other hand, it does point to things, troubling things, threatening things.\u00a0 I\u2019m too much of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Then again, maybe the &#039;War on Christmas&#039; 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