As sort of an offshoot to the JMS interesting posts thread, I thought I'd open this up for comments & discussion about What's Going On In The World Today. As always, please make the extra effort to be very polite. We all know how horrid Jan looks in that Moderator hat, right? 
So to start things off, let's touch on Looney's comments on this post of JMS:

Good point, Looney. Riffing off of that...
(Note: I'll try to phrase this carefully but it may still come across as an attack on faith/religion/beliefs/politics/lots of stuff. Please believe that if it does, it's my failure to word what I mean properly.)
I've noticed over the past few years that being 'at war' seems awfully popular. The 'war on Christmas'. The 'culture wars'. The 'war on women/men/lgbtq+'. At the risk of sounding like Garibaldi, why is it always a 'war' and never a struggle, a campaign, a scuffle, brawl, tussle, skirmish, fracas, melee? Is war so romantic? Do people actually like feeling attacked/persecuted? And yes, when it comes to a few religions, I've noted that some adherents do seem convinced that anybody not with them is against/at war with them.

So to start things off, let's touch on Looney's comments on this post of JMS:
Originally posted by Looney
(Note: I'll try to phrase this carefully but it may still come across as an attack on faith/religion/beliefs/politics/lots of stuff. Please believe that if it does, it's my failure to word what I mean properly.)
I've noticed over the past few years that being 'at war' seems awfully popular. The 'war on Christmas'. The 'culture wars'. The 'war on women/men/lgbtq+'. At the risk of sounding like Garibaldi, why is it always a 'war' and never a struggle, a campaign, a scuffle, brawl, tussle, skirmish, fracas, melee? Is war so romantic? Do people actually like feeling attacked/persecuted? And yes, when it comes to a few religions, I've noted that some adherents do seem convinced that anybody not with them is against/at war with them.
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