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Leonard Pitts Jr. On the "War" Against Christmas Email Print

By S M Dixon
12/12/2005 09:13:22 PM EST

"What's offensive here is not the imperfect balancing of minority and majority. What's offensive -- also surreal and absurd -- is the notion that Christianity, a faith claimed by 76 percent of all Americans, is somehow being intimidated into nonexistence. Some of the earliest Christians were stoned for their beliefs. In some parts of the world today, Christianity is a crime punishable by death. And the AFA is feeling persecuted because a sales clerk says 'Happy holidays?'

"That's not persecution. It's a persecution complex.

"And it trivializes what Christians claim to uphold: the baby born of a virgin's womb."


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