All topics lead to Bill O’Reilly’s favorite harping point. Religious persecution is rampant in America. Persecution conveniently segues into the new alarm O’Reilly is sounding, that “Hillary Clinton has declared “open season on Christians and white men.” Head for the hills and cover your man parts, a godless, castrating woman may soon reside in the White House!
John Stossel appeared with O’Reilly to promote his upcoming special on the Fox business channel called ‘Church and State’ in which he takes exception with O’Reilly’s Chicken Little cries that the sky is falling, and the axe will soon be falling on the necks of persecuted white Christians…Literally. Hyperbole much? Stossel seems to think so too. O’Reilly’s claim that American Christians are being persecuted and they will soon die for their faith, must be motivating terrified Fox viewers into stocking their bomb shelters in preparation for The Purge.
Here’s a splash of cold water! “Christians aren’t being killed in America, and they’re not going to be.” Stossel stated. O’Reilly was not easily put off track, insisting: “They’re verbally being killed.” Stossel scoffed, asking, “So what?”
“You shouldn’t be diminished because you believe a certain way,” O’Reilly told Stossel. “Aren’t you outraged by that?”
“What’s diminished?” Stossel asked. He then alluded to an ABC News poll which stated that 83 percent of Americans are identified as Christians. Stossel also brought up O’Reilly’s other ‘victory’ over secularism.
The tireless warrior was key in dividing the nation over the more tactful greeting ‘Happy Holidays’ versus “Merry Christmas” to all..Be you Jewish, Muslim, Hindu or Atheist..
“You are the majority. You’ve won,” Stossel informed O’Reilly.
Why then, with a majority of Christian soldiers behind him, does O’Reilly insist upon sounding the alarm that they are in imminent danger? “It’s not a matter of winning,” O’Reilly sniffed. “It’s a matter of respect.”
Aretha said it best, but she deserves R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
Despite the overwhelming majority of Christians, O’Reilly complained that “secularists” are trying to diminish religion, the better to pave the way for ‘unfettered abortion, gay marriage and legalized narcotics.’ He forgot to add, orgies, bible banishment and mandatory devil worship.
To me, this implies that all secularists exist in a sort of hive mentality according to Bill Oh. Stossel the notion put to rest, saying “I’m a secularist, and I don’t want unlimited abortion.” He then noted ” I think you paint with too broad a brush. I don’t criticize religion.”
“Not all secularists do,” O’Reilly said, “But you’re not a secular progressive — that’s what I should have said.”
Now that O’Reilly has transferred all of his “Happy Holidays” energy into demonizing Hillary Clinton, it’s a good time to look back on other times when Loofah Boy O’Reilly encountered religious persecution. .
Take his book and subsequent television movie “Killing Jesus.” O’Reilly claims he was a “victim of religious discrimination” because the movie was panned by religious and secular critics alike..They are now referred to as the ‘liberal media.’ Once again, he proclaimed it was “Open season on Christians in America and faith is not held in high esteem in the halls of Manhattan media operations.” He then admitted some conservative folks thought it stank too.
The reviews were not anti-religious. For instance the Boston Globe cited Killing Jesus as “a shallow telling of the Jesus story, with no more distinction than you might find in the generic reenactments of some historical documentary.”
Guardian faulted the TV movie for promoting “O’Reilly’s patented conservative slant” on a historical event and “Presenting salacious detail about Christ’s death and a Tea Party version of the son of God.”
It is a short hop from a bad review of a stinky film to O’Reilly’s claims to John Stossel that white, male, conservative Christians will soon be slaughtered in the streets of America.
Expect more: circular logic. Once set in motion, it rarely ends – barring bad ratings and eventual firing