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03:38 PM - Cultural tyranny curdles cheer Gerard Baker (a reporter so expert on American culture as to hold the exalted position of "US Editor" at the Times) has recently complained about alleged "attempt[s] at taking religion out of Christmas" such as when Boston recently refused to continue a time-honored tradition of officially elevating Christian seasonal traditions over those of other religions. Like most conservatives here in the States, Mr. Baker utterly fails to see the distinction between private exercise of religious freedom and official imposition or endorsement of a particular religious tradition. As a Briton, he perhaps may be excused from an expectation of familiarity with the inner workings of our Bill of Rights, but as a journalist covering the U.S. such an oversight is negligent at best and disingenuous at worst. It should be made clear to the English (and those Americans as yet unfamiliar with their own distinguished history) that the City of Boston’s refusal to elevate Christianity over other religious traditions is not in any sense “taking religion out of Christmas” but rather taking religion out of government, the logical end result of a remarkable principle that a few enlightened thinkers on this side of the pond originally implemented in order to avert the perpetual religious and ethnic strife which has bathed Europe in blood for centuries. Britons, in particular, ought never forget the bloodbaths their ancestors perpetuated over the matter of which sect ought to enjoy the sanction of the crown. Fie and shame upon this Englishman who mocks our noble American values of individual religious liberty and government neutrality towards all sects, and may the Church of England continue to sink under the rising tide apostasy which it so richly deserves. Technorati Tags: (
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