Last Wednesday, I was flipping channels and saw Bill O'Reilly bloviating about how there was an atheist display next to a Christian nativity scene in the Washington State Capital:
He held it up as an example of this year's "War on Christmas" and encouraged his winged monkeys to call Governor Chris Gregoire and complain.
Well, they managed to bring it down...
...in fact, they tore it down:
The controversial anti-religion sign in the state Capitol Rotunda was turned in to a Seattle radio station after it disappeared Friday morning.
An employee of the country radio station KMPS in Seattle said the sign was turned in to the station by someone who found it in a ditch.
This is brownshirt behavior. I realize I'm flirting with Godwin's Law, but literally tearing down someone else's beliefs is wrong, no matter how you cut it. I don't care if you are Christian, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Wiccan, Hindu, Buddhist, Shinto, Jain, Sikh, or atheist.
Bill O, Fox News Channel, and various fundamentalist Christian churches insist that there's a "war on Christmas" in the U.S. There is not. There is, however, a very active war on atheists and atheism, and FNC/Bill O's "war on Christmas" is part of it.
It's clear that certain people do not want equality in the marketplace of ideas when it comes to religion. They want the state to support, promote, and enforce but one religion: theirs. If the state gives equal time to other belief systems, they're engaging in a "war on Christmas"