It’s that time of year, so we have to have “war on Christmas” stories. <\/p>\n
I don’t like it when things that are not wars — no bombs dropping, etc. — are called wars. E.g., the war on poverty. <\/p>\n
The “war on Christmas” is a similar exaggeration, but it’s also undeniable that there are people who want to downplay our Christian heritage and make Christmas and Christianity less prominent in the culture. <\/p>\n
This year’s example seems to be a little tussle in Europe. Some bureaucrat from the “Union of Equality” in Brussels issued a memo recommending toned-down language. (It’s a fair bet that anything coming from a group called the “Union of Equality” is going to be nonsense.) <\/p>\n
This prompted a fairly stiff rebuke from the pope, and even from Macron in secular France. Macron has gone on to criticize “Certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States.” I.e., wokeism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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