In today’s Washington Post, you can read about a strange phenomenon: in Illinois, people are waking up to find their christmas displays vandalized. Someone is stealing baby Jesus figurines, and leaving signs asking “Would Jesus Use This Much Electricity?” in their place.
Here is the full text of the article. It’s worth a read–Seasonal Displays Being Looted
um, yeah. they’re trying to stamp out christmas…. and your little dog, too!
This is just more crap from the christian right. As soon as their candidate wins an election, and they start getting the laws they want passed, they don’t know what to do–they’re so used to being in the minority that they don’t know how to talk about things when they are suddenly given the reins. So they start to drum up these fears of a “culture under seige.” You’re not under seige, you nitwits–you’re in the majority! You can stop complaining now.
As if to demonstrate that fact, the story panders to the Christian right throughout, and repeatedly calls the figurine the “Christ” figure. When did mainstream media start referring to Jesus that way? I always thought that calling him “Jesus” was the proper thing to do, since that’s the part of his name Christians, Jews, and Muslims can agree on (the very notion that he is “the Christ” being the very thing about which Christians and Jews disagree).
And I don’t understand why The Washington Post, a reputable newspaper, doesn’t even bring up the issue of the sign–doesn’t the author of the sign have a pretty good point about consumerism and traditional Christian values?
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