216 - Merry Christmas...and Hail Satan???

American Freethought Podcast

Original release December 23, 2014.

Encore release November 11, 2018.

Encore release August 4, 2017.

Blowhard Bill O'Reilly has declared victory in the War on Christmas. But who's been fighting this war? Christians cry foul whenever Jews or atheists or Pastafarians or (gasp!) Satanists want equal time at the county courthouse, but they forget that the sole reason these groups want attention is to prevent the Christians from monopolizing the public sphere. If only all parties could agree that government property is neutral territory (i.e. no religious displays of any kind), this whole problem would go away. But since it won't...

Satanists will have a holiday display in Detroit, but there won't be a Nativity because no Christian group is willing to commit to the daily grind of installing/uninstalling a display for three days. You snooze, you lose.

And in Florida, a Satanist group has been denied permission to install an "offensive" display in the state capitol.

Finally, although it's late notice, Symmetry Magazine has posted instructions on how to make cool science-themed "snowflakes" featuring Nobel Prize winning scientists Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Edwin Schrodinger.