War on Christmas, already

Oy, what a cringeworthy production. It's Christmas with a Capital C, a ghastly little movie to pander to the Christian persecution complex at Christmas time.

I've seen enough — I think I'll skip it. Not that I'm likely to have much chance of seeing it: I don't frequent church basements, and I don't watch the Trinity Broadcast Network, and I don't plan on getting pithed any time in the near future.

Tags

More like this

So, what are the results of the Christmas Tunes Experiment? I've had a playlist of the songs on the Jefitoblog Holidy Mix Tape (plus a few other things) locked into the iTunes Party Shuffle while I work on the computer at home. At work, I stuck with the usual four-and-five-star playlist in the lab…
Here's a point I've often seen made before, this time by Mike the Mad Biologist and Shakespeare's Sister: religion provides an important social outlet in small town America. It is the social network, the source of community activities, and an essential part of the people's identities. It's more…
Joe Carter has a review up of a new documentary called The God Who Wasn't There, by Brian Flemming, which takes the rather audacious position that there was no man called Jesus at all, that the Jesus of the bible is entirely fictitious and invented out of whole cloth. I've not seen this movie yet,…
Yes, the book. My Job in 10 Years: The Future of Academic Libraries. To rewind a bit, the story begins this past January. I did a little off-the-cuff post on how libraries could model their web presences on commercial book-related sites like Tor.com or the Globe & Mail Books site. It ended…