Quote Originally Posted by roninwithnoname
The whole "War on Christmas" thing is a joke.
it's no joke. it's just the same deadly game that has been played out with the emergence of each new religious power. each time a new faith begins to gain control over the hearts and minds of the people, its proponents always seek to outlaw their most vigorous predecessors.

our new deity resides in test tubes and computers, but the fervor it engenders is religious in nature none the less. the average citizen has no better understanding of the sciences than he does of the workings of any other god and he is just as convinced in the infallibility of science as the christian is of the omnipotence of his god. he does not differentiate between theory and fact. the origins of life and the workings of the universe are still as inscrutable, but the simplified versions they are taught are taken for granted and accepted as gospel. the priests of our new religion are garbed in lab coats and business suits. the new church is supported by tithes that are wrung from the people in the form of taxes and handed to the religious hierarchy as funds for "research", donations by wealthy benefactors and through the sale of religious artifacts or special dispensations. our temples are widespread and often secretive. does any of this sound familiar?

religion seems to evolve, just as everything else. we began with the animistic concept of gods within everything, evolved to sets of gods, consolidated them into monotheism, and we are now doing away with god altogether with the church of the no god. it is still blind belief, but it is a blind belief based in the bastardized form of logic we are all indoctrinated into. it seems we are slowly growing beyond our need for a god, but not beyond our need for a church. we are denying the most benign part of religion and carrying on its more destructive component.