Does anyone wonder how many Christians (even RW!) actually buy this 'war'?

[StellaBlue]

On Christmas, I mean.

I was just thinking... if we feel like this is an out-of-no-where, Wag-the-Dog, propagandistic, ratings-driven O'Reilly creation... maybe some Christians, even fundies, are sitting at home wondering the same thing?

I am in East Texas, and none of my coworkers, who are all good Southern Protestants, have said a word about it. I haven't talked to my grandparents yet, though - they drive a Cadillac with the following bumper stickers:

JESUS SAVES

SPORTSMEN FOR BUSH

NRA

and, of course, SUPPORT OUR TROOPS

And they are retired, spending almost all their time either napping, watching Faux, or going to Wal-Mart. So I have no doubt they will have bought into it. These people refuse to watch CNN because it's so 'liberal' and 'against the president'. :shrug:

Anyway, my point is... I wonder how many Christians have actually bought into this, having seen no real evidence of a 'war' themselves (as they wouldn't, because there, of course, is no evidence!)?

Maybe we are falling right into the puppetmaster's divide-and-conquer trap. ...?... By assuming we are having some kind of ideological battle with the fundies? Maybe we should just go out of our way to practice the goodwill that is supposedly the point of the 'season'? Maybe we should go out of our way to wish a 'Merry Christmas' to anyone we know is Christian? Rather than letting someone so small as O'Lielly turn us against one another on false premises.

?

Thoughts?

[Ladyhawk]

1. The ones I've seen have bought into it, but maybe that's only

because they're the only ones I've noticed speaking up about it. :shrug:

[Jade Fox]

2. The idea that Christians are being discriminated against....

has been building for awhile. Rush Limbaugh's brother wrote a book about it awhile ago, and
there are others as well. This has planted the attitude of victimization in those Christians
with a need to feel special and put-upon at the same time.