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     It's that time of year.  So get out your semi-automatic rifles, hand grenades and body armor because Jesus Wants You to enlist in the War on Christmas.  That's right, America home of the free, which includes Religious Freedom and the absence of a national religion, wants you to celebrate the Christian Christ while ignoring other religious figures.  The government and civilian employers are going to give you days off so you can celebrate the birth of Jesus (that doesn't count as an endorsement of the religion by the government... nor does the reference to God on our money... or the prayers before the high school football game.)  As you know... this is the reason for the season.  What if you are Jewish and don't believe in Jesus?  It's just a month or so of celebrating Jesus.  What's the big deal?  It's like when us, whites, tolerate Black History Month.  You will make it through just like we do.  An extra epis...

     The news is full of stories about Muslim extremists and their violent and deadly actions.  Americans, especially Christian Americans, are quick to point to these stories as indicative of the entire Muslim religion.  It does not seem to matter these incidents are perpetrated by a mere few of the Islamic religion.  We are quick to paint all Muslims with the broad stroke of violence and terrorism.  We are quick to point out Christians would never act in such a way.  Sure maybe the Christians did participate in the crusades, killed supposed witches, and the Native Americans but that was a long time ago and these Christians were mislead (I guess by God.)  Christianity became a sophisticated and loving religion shortly thereafter.... or so we like to pretend.      The real threat to our American way of life is the modern Christian terrorists with their murder, violence, legislation, war-mongering, psychological/spiritual...

     I was contacted last week by a southern comedy club who was very interested in booking me for a week as their headliner.  They expressed one concern, my FB page.  They had reservations that I, sporadically, post Christian memes (John Hagee and Joel Osteen) with anti-Christian messages.  They felt my posts ran contrary to the belief system of their audience.  I completely understood their concerns.  Essentially they felt I do not uphold their community standards.  They did not ask I cease to post such commentary but that I simply do not address religious issues on their stage.  I do not usually address religion in my act so this was not a concession with which I had difficulty.  I assured them I would not address their belief system and we moved forward without a problem.      Nonetheless as the day progressed the interaction occupied much of my thought process.  As I looked closer at my emotional rea...