I thought I'd respond to your 5 arguments here, because reasons.
Miri said:
... the experience of growing up as a religious and cultural outsider in my community stuck with me, and now I use it as a lens through which I can understand and analyze Christian privilege.
Everyone on the planet is a religious and cultural outsider to someone and/or something else. Seems pretty small salt to raise a ruckus over.
Also, lots of people have some privilege over lots of other people. It is a simple, completely unavoidable fact of existence. The important issue is not to invent reasons for why privilege is wrong, but to discuss ways and means to try and ensure that privileges of most kinds are not intentionally used to actually cause other people harm. I would think the only really worry-valid issue of privilege that people should focus on is the inescapabley grotesque differences between the really wealthy 1-5% of the Earth's population, and
everyone else on the planet. Surely that causes more suffering, strife, and real-world harm than such profoundly petty things as religous so-called privilege and religious holidays.
Christians With Hearing Privilege Encounter Music Celebrating Their Holiday Everywhere They Go This Month
Hearing privilege. Jesus fishsticks. Maybe we should all start whinging about living privilege:
Oh look, there's someone who is alive and enjoying it. Shame on them for showing off their living privilege. The rest of tha section is not only just silly, it's also basically wrong. Most of the music that is heard
everywhere in Western societies before, after, and during the so-called Christmas season is not religious or even religious-based; it's commercial, with some loosely religious-oriented lyrical content.
Inclusive Holiday Greetings, Decorations, and Celebrations Are Still Controversial to Many Christians.
Really silly. No one has the right to not be offended. At least Christians aren't bombing innocents for Jesus during Christmas.
People Who Don’t Observe Christian Holidays Often Find Themselves Pitied by Others
Cry me a river. Really, really, really unimportant.
Many Christians Conflate Other Religious Winter Holidays with Christmas and The Christian “Holiday Season.”
Jesus. So fucking what? Of what earthly importance is that? And your arguments for this section are ludicrous, and mostly wrong, if not just tilting at the windmills of your mind.
The overarching message I get from your thesis is that Christian holidays and Christians are bad; let's stigmatize 'em and celebrate all other religous holidays/celebrations instead 'cause reasons.
I have a serious question for you: Are FTB people, bloggers and commenters, able to enjoy
anything at all that does not directly and specifically benefit them and satisfy their personal socio-political ideologies and lifestyles? I'm serious about that; I have the impression that the answer is a pretty solid and profound
No. The king of the angry bitter Scrooges is certainly PZ, but I see the same bitter unhappiness and dislike of everything not-FTB on all the other FTB blogs from time-to-time.
