{"id":35136,"date":"2018-12-24T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35136"},"modified":"2018-12-24T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T20:12:00","slug":"republicans-on-parade-12-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/24\/republicans-on-parade-12-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans on Parade &#8211; 12\/24\/2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/RepublicansOnParade6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here is the one hundred forty-fifth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Republican Supply-side pseudo-Jew, Dennis Prager. He is so honored for claiming that the War on Christmas has taught heathen youth to let strangers drown instead of saving them.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1224Trump-Christmas\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1224Trump-Christmas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/1224Trump-Christmas.jpg\" width=\"599\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[C]onservative radio host Dennis Prager told Fox &amp; Friends on Monday that he says \u201cMerry Christmas\u201d instead of \u201cHappy holidays\u201d to honor his country.<\/p>\n<p>During a Christmas Eve interview on Fox &amp; Friends, host Brian Kilmeade asked Prager why it is important to say \u201cMerry Christmas.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u201cIt matters because it\u2019s a national holiday,\u201d Prager explained. \u201cPeople have to understand, I\u2019m a Jew. Okay? Christmas is not my religious holiday, but Christmas is my national holiday, on de facto and legal grounds. On legal grounds, it\u2019s a national holiday. I honor my country. Number two, the vast majority of my fellow citizens celebrate this holiday.\u201d\u2026\u201cThey don\u2019t like \u2018In God We Trust\u2019 on our coins, they don\u2019t like Christmas as a national holiday,\u201d Prager complained. \u201cI fear a radically secularized America. I fear it. As a Jew, I fear it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know what happens when people no longer have a God-based frame of reference for their ethics,\u201d he added. \u201c<strong>Two-thirds of the high school kids I\u2019ve asked in the last in the last 40 years, \u2018Would you save your dog or a stranger if both were drowning?\u2019 [They] won\u2019t save the stranger because \u2018I love my dog, don\u2019t love the stranger.\u2019 But if you have a Judeo-Christian value system, you know that people are created in God\u2019s image, dogs are not<\/strong>.\u201d&#8230; [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/2018\/12\/fox-friends-heathen-kids-will-let-strangers-drown-war-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raw Story<\/a>&gt;       <br \/>Graphic credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amateuridiotprofessionaldad.com\/donald-trump-war-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.amateuridiotprofessionaldad.com\/donald-trump-war-christmas\/<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-UaJh4KjDn8\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/-UaJh4KjDn8\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">What total BS!&#160; First if 2\/3 of the kids Prager asked really said that, he only asked three, and they were paid and told what to say.&#160; One forgot his lines.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Second, as a lifeguard and lifeguard trainer in my youth, I had occasion to rescue several people from drowning over the years.&#160; The notion that they were in God&#8217;s image never crossed my mind.&#160; I did it because I saw people in need of help.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Third, I&#8217;m proud to be friends with several atheists, who do not have a &quot;God-based frame of reference&quot;.&#160; They are more ethical, responsible, and loving than any Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christian.&#160; The notion that religious is the same as moral is a lie.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Finally, I am a lefty, and I do not hate Christmas.&#160; In fact, I am a Christian.&#160; Many of the lefties I know are also Christians.&#160; We are not waging war on Christmas, nor are the lefties we know.&#160; I greet most people with &quot;Merry Christmas&quot; at this time of year.&#160; I reserve &quot;Happy Holidays&quot; for Republican-Supply-side pseudo-Christians and one Republican Supply-side pseudo-Jew.<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">RESIST!!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the one hundred forty-fifth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Republican Supply-side pseudo-Jew, Dennis Prager. He is so honored for claiming that the War on Christmas has taught heathen youth to let strangers drown instead of saving them. [C]onservative radio host Dennis <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/24\/republicans-on-parade-12-24-2018\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}