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Wednesday, December 6, 2006

The war on Christmas numeracy

Today's serving of spam included a salvo from the war-on-Christmas camp, an e-mailed book promo headlined WAR ON CHRISTMAS TEACHES OUR CHILDREN THAT CHRIST IS A FIVE-LETTER WORD.

Yes, those evil secular progressives "are teaching kids that Christianity = profanity." Scary, isn't it? But not so scary as teaching them that Christ, that's C-h-r-i-s-t, is a five-letter word. Even people who count on their fingers should be able to get up to six.

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