{"id":27698,"date":"2013-12-27T01:55:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T04:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=27698"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:04:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:04:31","slug":"dennis-prager-on-christmas-christians-and-mikey-weintsein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/dennis-prager-on-christmas-christians-and-mikey-weintsein\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Prager on Christmas, Christians, and Mikey Weintsein"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager is a radio talk show host and &#8220;religious Jew&#8221; who recently wrote a column entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennisprager.com\/jews-wish-merry-christmas\/\">Most Jews Wish You a Merry Christmas<\/a>,&#8221; saying he not only has no problem with &#8220;Merry Christmas,&#8221; he <em>does<\/em> have a problem with those people who take issue with it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The notion that non-Christians are excluded is absurd.<\/p>\n<p>Americans who feel \u201cexcluded\u201d are not excluded. They have decided to feel excluded. Which is, of course, entirely their right to do&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Saying the &#8220;left&#8221; has the<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>aim of secularizing America \u2014 which means, first and foremost, the removal of as many Christian references as possible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prager segues into commenting on someone he calls an &#8220;anti-Christian&#8221; Jew: Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein, who has recently attacked Nativity scenes on military bases because, in part, some people feel &#8220;excluded&#8221; [emphasis added]:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Overwhelmingly, the Jews who are active in the removal of Christmas from society \u2014 such as <strong>Mikey Weinstein, the anti-Christian activist<\/strong> (with a soft spot for Islamists) who led the campaign to remove the manger scene from Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina \u2014 are not religious Jews.<\/p>\n<p>They are animated by one or both of two factors: One is leftism, which serves as a substitute religion for Judaism (and among many non-Jews for Christianity). The other is a <strong>psychological need to see Christianity suppressed<\/strong>; many people who have little or no religious identity resent those who do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Prager&#8217;s assessment of Weinstein being &#8220;not religious&#8221; and needing to attack Christianity appears to be accurate; Weinstein has essentially said as much. For example, Weinstein has called himself (in the third person) a &#8220;secular Jew who prays&#8221; as well a &#8220;Jewish agnostic, or Jagnostic.&#8221; Further, Weinstein recently revealed the military Nativity incidents <em>weren&#8217;t<\/em> about religious freedom &#8212; they were about attacking &#8220;Christian privilege,&#8221; a telling admission worthy of another discussion in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Prager continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to Fox News, Weinstein\u2019s Military Religious Freedom Foundation \u201csaid they were alerted by an undisclosed number of Airmen who said they were emotionally troubled by the sight of [the nativity scene].\u201d That sentence should be reworded. Those who claim to be emotionally troubled by the sight of a nativity scene are not emotionally troubled by the sight of a nativity scene. They are emotionally troubled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That might be a bit unfair, as the &#8220;victims&#8221; of the Nativity scene probably weren&#8217;t all that &#8220;emotionally troubled,&#8221; as most average observers could probably conclude. Weinstein likely coached their complaint letter to sound as pitiable and woeful as possible simply for effect.<\/p>\n<p>Because for Weinstein, removing the Nativity was more important than either the truth or religious liberty.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager is a radio talk show host and &#8220;religious Jew&#8221; who recently wrote a column entitled &#8220;Most Jews Wish You a Merry Christmas,&#8221; saying he not only has no problem with &#8220;Merry Christmas,&#8221; he does have a problem with those people who take issue with it: The notion that non-Christians are excluded is absurd. 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