{"id":18873,"date":"2013-11-06T07:34:37","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=18873"},"modified":"2013-11-06T07:34:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:34:37","slug":"war-on-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/11\/war-on-christmas.html","title":{"rendered":"War on Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"This year\u2019s war on Christmas has begun. It is being waged by groups such as Liberty Counsel, who are encouraging Christians to avoid interacting with non-Christians once again (and also illustrating hypocrisy by not putting Chick-fil-A on their naughty list, as Hemant Mehta highlights<\/a>). If my calculation was right last year when I wrote about this<\/a>, then that makes this the eleventh annual attempt by the group to undermine Christmas.<\/p>\n

Also seeking to undermine Christmas are the makers of the song in the video below<\/a>, whose message is that Christmas is all about shopping, words, and grinchiness. I\u2019ve rarely encountered a less Christian sentiment wrapped in Christian garb.<\/p>\n