Well, now that pesky heathen holiday is out of the way it's time to kick off the real holiday season with a good old fashioned round of conservative pundit whining. Always the traditionalist, Bill O'Reilly doesn't fail to disappoint. This time O'Reilly is working in a new twist to an old favorite combining whining about the evils of secularization with pimping George Bush's new tin soldier Samuel Alito. According to O'Reilly, "The Founding Fathers didn't want all mention of Christmas stricken from the public arena. That's what Alito will do. He's a traditionalist. He's going to rule that way."

Of course, O'Reilly isn't really the best authority on what the Founding Fathers would want. After all, as archy points out, in the early days of the New England colonies, Christmas was outlawed. Of course, that was those wacky Puritans, but Thomas Jefferson (a Founding Father that conservatives love to quote) was on record as opposing federal recognition of holidays. But the truth has never stopped the conservative punditry. Well, let me assure any of our readers out there that are concerned about the "War on Christmas".

Speaking as an actual card-carrying member of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy, your religious holidays don't concern us. We don't want to stop you from practicing your religion or celebrating it in public. But there's a good reason not to put a creche on municipal property. You see, there are a lot of religions out there and that nativity scene on the lawn of the county courthouse might annoy a Muslim or a Buddhist (do Buddhists get annoyed?). Worse, it might be seen as government officially sanctioning a particular religion. And that annoys everybody. Including us evil atheists.

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