Aaaand here we go again. The Christmas Nuts are decidedly mixed this year. Claiming that secular governments have declared a ‘war on Christmas’, religiously conservatives sound the klaxon and urge everyone to come to their defense. It’s even shriller than their normal ‘persecution of Christianity’ routine.

Honestly, I’m not sure what they are talking about. Atheists surely don’t want to abolish Christmas – heck it’s where we make most of our business, and we get a few days of vacation. It’s not the other religions either. The biggest Santa Claus figure I’ve seen was in a predominantly Buddhistic region – a shopping mall in Singapore. So they have no interest in abolishing Christmas either.

So what’s their beef this year? They point to Texas to alert you to the fact that Texas had to pass a bill to allow everyone to say ‘Merry Christmas’ (presumably also on non-Christmas days). This, according to the conservative’s siege mentality, proves that before the bill was passed, it was illegal. Not really – and it seems that the legislation was a stunt just to elicit this response: When asked for specific examples, the bill’s sponsor, Texas Rep. Dwayne Bohac (R-Houston) couldn’t point to any.

All we are seeing here is someone who tries to stop out-of-control politically correctness with a wall of stupid. It never was illegal to say ‘Merry Christmas’. Just like is wasn’t illegal to live before the day the UN passed the Human Right to live. The idiots are just too frightened of being perceived as politically incorrect when say say ‘Merry Christmas’ – so they give you ‘Season’s Greetings’. Wussies. Heck, I don’t believe – but I still wish my religious friends Merry Christmas.

Even my jewish friends.