AHA board member and Humanist Press author Herb Silverman is a new blogger with The Huffington Post!

01/29/2014

I’ve been actively engaged in two wars in my life, but I don’t receive or deserve veterans’ benefits. My most recent service occurred during the manufactured war by Fox News, the “War on Christmas.” Yes, I plead guilty to wishing people “Happy Holidays” around winter solstice time, and I have even been known to provide a pagan history lesson to those who insist on telling me that Jesus is the reason for the season.

My earlier war arrived as a card game I learned at five, a game called “War.” Two players are dealt 26 cards face down. Each then simultaneously shows the top card, and the player with the higher card takes both exposed cards and places them at the bottom of the player’s stack. If both cards are of equal value, there is a “war.” Each combatant places the next three cards face down, and the fourth face up. The card of higher value captures all the cards played and puts them at the bottom of his or her stack. The war ends when one person has all 52 cards.

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Herb Silverman is founder and President Emeritus of the Secular Coalition for America, AHA board member, and author of Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt.