John Gibson Answered my email

[brettdale]

"Any suggestions how I should answer hs reply?"


My Email: So when do we dems make Christmas Illegal?

His Reply: check out the bestseller list. three angry atheist books are in the top ranks. they want to make it illegal now. don't take my word for it... just read something.

jg

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. the reason they are top sellers is because their contents are far

more accurate than Haggard's brain-washing or that bible camp for kids. Perhaps even Fox will realize that there is a market for facts and reason. No, that would be asking too much.

[warrens]

2. On which pages did they say that?

That should shut the stupid motherfucker up.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

5. Damn. Beat me to it. -nt

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Simple and to the point:

"Please point out (quote) where in any of those books there is advocacy of making Christmas illegal."

[SteppingRazor]

4. So ... the fact that atheists can get books published...

means that Christmas is about to end? Oh, for Christ's sake, for lack of a better phrase.

That said, Gibson does have a point -- The God Delusion and Letter to a Christian Nation are both in the NYTimes Hardback Nonfiction Top 15

[pacalo]

6. Don't acknowledge his answer, but do respond with something like this...

"Second question -- Why is it that Faux News' ratings continue to spiral down? Time to spiffy up your resume, perhaps?"

[Gabi Hayes]

14. ask him if he or OReilly gets to drive

when they ride the brown railroad together

[Joe Bacon]

7. 3 out of how many?

Oh why even try and respond to that fool, He'll put words in your mouth the same way he stuffs lies into his!

[City Lights]

8. How are the two related?

What do angry atheist books have to do with elected Dems? :shrug:

[wicket]

9. That's what my response would be

I'm a Christian and a democrat, does he really think I'd belong to a party that wants to ban Christmas? He's such a moron.

[plcdude]

10. Non-Christian

authors should be considered also. How abour authors who do not believe in Santa Claus? What an idiot.

[Lex]

11. Ask him

how he gets his teeth color and hair color to match.

They used to.

I don't know, maybe he's gotten crowns by now.


/snark

[Gabi Hayes]

12. jg...what's that stand for? jaa goff?

[walldude]

13. Send him this link to the NYT Bestseller list

and ask him which books he's talking about. I don't see them...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/books/1112besthardnonfiction.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

What an ass.

[RedStateShame]

15. "Isn't your network proof that most people don't read?"

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. You could show him what Richard Dawkins has actually written about Christmas

assuming he's an author of one of the "angry atheist books":

Professor G A Wells’s scholarly book Did Jesus Exist? puts a strong case that he didn’t. Other scholars think, on balance, that he probably did exist, though all agree that the evidence is extremely weak. Certainly, no scholar thinks he was born in December. Late Christian tradition simply attached Jesus’s birth to a long-established winter solstice festival.

Such opportunism continues to this day. In some states of the USA, public celebration of Christmas itself is outlawed for fear of offending Jews and others. Seasonal marketing needs are satisfied nationwide by a super-ecumenical “Holiday Season”, into which are commandeered the Jewish Chanukah, Muslim Ramadan, and the fabricated “Kwanzaa” (invented in 1966 so that African Americans could celebrate their very own winter solstice). Americans coyly wish each other “Happy Holidays” and spend vast amounts on “Holiday presents”. For all I know, they hang up a “Holiday Stocking” and sing “Holiday Carols” around the decorated “Holiday Tree”. “Father Holidays” has not so far been sighted, but this is surely only a matter of time.

For better or worse, ours is historically a Christian culture, and children who grow up ignorant of it are diminished, unable to take literary allusions, actually impoverished. I am no lover of Christianity, but I’d far rather wish you “Happy Christmas” than “Happy Holiday Season”. Fortunately, this is not the only choice. December 25th really is the birthday of one of the greatest men ever to walk the earth, Sir Isaac Newton. His achievements might justly be celebrated wherever his truths hold sway. And that means from one end of the universe to the other. Happy Newton’s Day!

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That was 2 years ago. Dawkins would like Christianity to disappear, but he's not proposing making it, or Christmas, illegal. But if John Gibson bothered reading, he'd know that. :eyes: (Having said that, Dawkins is wrong about Ramadan).