{"id":44979,"date":"2019-12-19T16:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=44979"},"modified":"2021-04-01T11:21:47","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T14:21:47","slug":"mikey-weinstein-shoots-the-moon-for-ebenezer-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/19\/mikey-weinstein-shoots-the-moon-for-ebenezer-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikey Weinstein Shoots the Moon for Ebenezer Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ladies and gentlemen, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein has officially jumped the shark.<\/p>\n<p>The man who has no depth to which he will not stoop in his attacks against Christians and their faith has finally swung the final blow:<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s come out against Santa Claus, ya&#8217;ll.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Belvoir commissary had a blow up Santa standing next to a sign and a raccoon wearing a hat, as provided by an MRFF picture <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/group-condemns-soldier-santa-on-army-base-i-cant-make-this-sh-t-up\">published at FoxNews<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45905\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/santa4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/santa4.png 499w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/santa4-266x300.png 266w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At first, Weinstein said <!--more-->he was ok with the jolly old fellow:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We never attack Santa Claus, we know that Santa Claus is a secular figure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also said he had no problem with the sign Santa was holding:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the sign in front of where Santa is standing, \u2018God Bless America.\u2019 That&#8217;s wonderful. It&#8217;s great. People say it all the time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the problem? The raccoon?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, when Santa Claus stands <em>next<\/em> to the sign, <em>then<\/em> the US military is requiring all US troops to worship Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Because, well, only a moron would think that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Almost all the complainants\u2014like the lead one that came to us on this\u2014 have been through mandatory situations where they&#8217;ve been forced to engage in blessing for Jesus Christ,&#8221; [Weinstein] added. &#8220;It\u2019s always one faith, always it&#8217;s Christianity.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of morons, Weinstein&#8217;s habit of publishing his responses to hate mail may have bitten him (again) as he did attack secular-Santa Claus in general, in an ellipses-riddled, spittle-flinging tirade against\u00a0a critic\u00a0[emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2026.and there are MILLIONS of kids who are repulsed and excluded <strong>when they see Santa<\/strong>\u2026.how wretchedly callous and cavalier and arrogant of you, jack!!??\u2026.good luck with your \u201cangels\u201d\u2026I\u2019ll stick with the Constitution\u2026that\u2019s positive enough for me and many others to \u201cbelieve in\u201d, chump\u2026.and <strong>don\u2019t YOU EVER tell ME to \u201cthink\u201d<\/strong>\u2026\u2026I doubt you\u2019ve done it in decades if EVER!!!\u2026..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mikey: &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell me to think.&#8221; That&#8217;s classic. It might even make the Christmas letter this year.<\/p>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t appear Weinstein has been in the running for religious liberty groups&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/12\/22\/mikey-weinstein-aims-for-christmas-villain-hat-trick\/\">Ebenezer<\/a>\/Scrooge\/<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2017\/01\/02\/mikey-weinstein-loses-yet-again\/\">Grinch<\/a> awards the past couple of years, so maybe this was Mikey&#8217;s big nomination push. Maybe this will be the year for the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santa_Claus_Is_Comin%27_to_Town_(film)\"><strong>Burgermeister Meisterburger<\/strong><\/a> award.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a shoo-in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/meister.jpg\" width=\"451\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-size=\"small\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-share=\"true\"><\/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>Ladies and gentlemen, Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein has officially jumped the shark. The man who has no depth to which he will not stoop in his attacks against Christians and their faith has finally swung the final blow: He&#8217;s come out against Santa Claus, ya&#8217;ll. The Fort Belvoir commissary had a blow up Santa standing next to a sign and a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4285,3414,85,5218,7,10,171,6769],"class_list":["post-44979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-commissary","tag-god-bless-america","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-santa-claus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44979"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45906,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44979\/revisions\/45906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}