Christmas Has Been Saved, Now Return To Your Homes

Staunch defenders of Christmas manned the wall this weekend in Westlake Center in an effort to turn back the heathen hordes, a move Seattlest likens to trying to stop the tide from rising up the beach at Golden Gardens with a Maginot Line of sand. The enemy isn't the silly complaints that lead to the sillier municipal renamings of trees, parties, etc, but that's probably a more winnable fight than the actual "problem." The "problem" is the mass of people who aren't necessarily celebrating the birth of a god who still want to get down with friends, family and a little egg nog around the end of the year. "Backoff, Godless Wonders - This is our party. Go celebrate the solstice or something." Right.

Reports indicate that "dozens, if not hundreds" decended on Seattle's Christmas Central on Saturday to sing some carols and hoist a few signs. In lieu of actually going downtown to take a few pictures of our own we were planning to send you over to flickr for the usual orgy of images, but apparently Christmas Savers aren't as technically inclined as one would hope and we were only able to unearth one solitary photo.

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By Dan in News on December 19, 2005 12:43 PM

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todd

That photo you are linking to was posted on the 10th (a tad early), so I'm guessing that's probably the guy who's always manning that corner, trying to spread the word, not one of the protesters.

Me, personally, I say shame on stores like Target for giving in to the xmas thugs. Here they were (Target) trying to show a little sensitivity and be all-inclusive by using terms like "happy holidays" and these people go apeshit (chances are good that these are the same people who think our government should be religious too).

What cracks me up is that the "Staunch Defenders of Christmas" are freaking out about the STORES, where they BUY their gifts. Who says Christmas hasn't been commercialized? Maybe they should focus on worship instead of consumerism. Seems like the mall is more important than the church these days, so if they can infuse religion into the shopping outlets they can feel a little better about it.

Well, I gotta go, I'm headed down to Target to buy my new Festivus pole.

SERENITY NOW!

Sue again

Hey Josh, I want you to rest assured that there was not a single "Repent You Filthy Heathens" sign anywhere present at the rally. It wasn't about that, as I hope most people understand.

Sue

Hi Dan,

I just wanted to let you know that we've got lots of photos of the rally but the web-mistress (me) hasn't had the time to upload them to the site just yet. I'm not "technically challenged"; I'm time-challenged, which (in this case) is almost as bad. I like the humor on this site, even if I may disagree with some of the comments!

The photos will be up on the site soon!

Best wishes,

Sue

8Bit Jake

SEDER: Listen, as far as the war on Christmas goes, I feel like we should be waging a war on Christmas. I mean, I believe that Christmas, it's almost proven that Christmas has nuclear weapons, can be an imminent threat to this country, that they have operative ties with terrorists and I believe that we should sacrifice thousands of American lives in pursuit of this war on Christmas. And hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money.

PHILLIPS: Is it a war on Christmas, a war Christians, a war on over-political correctness or just a lot of people with way too much time on their hands?

SEDER: I would say probably, if I was to be serious about it, too much time on their hands, but I'd like to get back to the operational ties between Santa Claus and al Qaeda.

PHILLIPS: I don't think that exists. Bob? Help me out here.

SEDER: We have intelligence, we have intelligence.

PHILLIPS: You have intel. Where exactly does your intel come from?

SEDER: Well, we have tortured an elf and it's actually how we got the same information from Al Libbi. It's exactly the same way the Bush administration got this info about the operational ties between al Qaeda and Saddam.

The "War on the War on the War on Christmas" (Transcript) (Video).