The Jewish Grinch Who Stole Christmas (Burt Prelutsky Takes On The Christianophobes Alert)

Worldnetdaily.com ^ | 12/07/05 | Burt Prelutsky

[goldstategop]

Respect is mutual. So says another conservative Jew fed up with the defamation of Christians and with Christmas being a dirty word in our post-modern culture. We could all use some Good Seasons cheer and wish the vast majority of our fellow citizens a Merry Christmas. And let's give the Christophobe nutcases the back of our hand.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[son of caesar]

i have made it an effort this year to say merry christmas to everyone i meet, including what appeared to me to be a muslim. well, he looked muslim and was working at a 7/11. no humor intended, its true. regardless, every single one has said merry christmas back to me with a smile. we need to adopt the old russian saw, you pretend to make good rules and we will pretend to obey them.

[SittinYonder]

I'm tired of Christians embracing the victim identity. Sure, some companies in an attempt to be politcally correct have gone over the top with "holiday trees." But is it because they're persecuting Christians or have they seen a way to sell more Christmas trees by trying to coax the Jews and the Hindus and atheists into buying a Holiday Tree? I don't know and I don't care.

Most corporate execs making assinine decisions celebrate Christmas only for the buying frenzy that boosts revenue. I'm teaching my children why we celebrate Christmas, and I pray that one day they teach their children.

It's our Savior's birthday.

Besides, it cheapens the "Holiday Mood" (once known as "Christmas spirit") when Christians walk around scowling at anyone who tells them to have a happy holiday. I'm just going to smile and say "Merry Christmas" and be happy that it's my favorite time of year again.

[saveliberty]

Thanks for the post.

I think what amazes me is the effort to coerce what some people believe to be courtesy to others.

I have found that most conservatives are polite and friendly. I have found a very mixed bag among liberals. Okay, maybe that's an understatement. I find fewer liberals who can be thoughtful and courteous to someone with whom they disagree. When I find the ones who can agree to disagree, they are a rare gift.

[SittinYonder]

Don't misunderstand my rant above; I am very appreciative of people of other religions who think, like I do, that Christmas is under assault. And I believe the assault on Christmas is more of the undermining of our national values by the left, and I value anyone who wants to fight against that, where ever the front.

But, I've got too many Christian friends who are "woe-is-me" fixated on this and missing the point of Christmas this year.

[NotSoFreeStater]

I've heard alot about the "death of Christmas" year after year. I'm glad someone finally assigns blame as to the reason for it.

[Mathews]

There is going to be post after post read today about how Christmas is being taken away and replaced by this... Holiday/Winterfest B.S. and Freeper after Freeper will lament on how awful it is, but the only way we (Christian Conservatives) will get Christmas back is to STOP BUYING!! I know that idea is a reach and will most likely never happen, but if it did, the retailers would bend over backwards to kiss our feet. They'd do anything to get us back into the stores. Christmas banners would be everywhere and there wouldn't be enough Salvation Army Bell Ringers to accommodate the retailers need to have one out front no matter what the ACLU and the Atheists do. Money will triumph over diversity any day of the week in the mind of a retailer. Anyway, what do y'all think Jesus would think of all this madness? It is His Holiday, but He's been lost over the past few decades... replaced by X-boxes, Elmos, Ferbies, and Cabbage Patch Kids. STOP BUYING and START MAKING your gifts. Go minimal for the next couple of years, tithe at your church instead of Wal-Mart, and leave the bulk of present giving to Birthdays and Anniversaries.

Wha... what was that? Okay... I was dreaming again. I'm awake now. Sorry!

[ken5050]

Past as prologue....In 1964, my rabbi devoted his Yom Kippur sermon to "Why Jews shouldn't vote for Barry Goldwater".I, then a precocious 16 years old, and about ONLY teenager campaigning for Barry in the Bronx...got up from my seat in the middle of this screed..and to my mother's mortification, walked out on the rabbi, and the entire 500+ congregation..right down the center aisle and out the door.

I though of this last week, when I read the story about the church in California being investigated by the IRS because of an anti-Bush sermon by the minister...

[ken5050]

Past as prologue....In 1964, my rabbi devoted his Yom Kippur sermon to "Why Jews shouldn't vote for Barry Goldwater".I, then a precocious 16 years old, and about ONLY teenager campaigning for Barry in the Bronx...got up from my seat in the middle of this screed..and to my mother's mortification, walked out on the rabbi, and the entire 500+ congregation..right down the center aisle and out the door.

I though of this last week, when I read the story about the church in California being investigated by the IRS because of an anti-Bush sermon by the minister...

PS. About 10 years ago, leaving Yankee Stadium, we took a detour through the Bronx to avoid a traffic jam on the highway. Went past the temple..It was now a mosque...There's a lesson there, somewheres...

[NotSoFreeStater]

I'd like to stop buying and have a minimal Christmas. Problem is I'd soon be divorced.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

But when the overwhelming majority of a country's population is of one religion, and roughly 90 percent of Americans happen to be one sort of Christian or another, only a damn fool would deny the obvious.

We live in a country with a lot of "damn fools."

The dorky liberal secular humanists don't think that suppressing Christmas is a problem. They think that it is the waning of Charles Darwin that is the real danger. According to this bizarre mythology, unless everyone is conditioned to spend hours upon hours tracing evolutionary monkey charts the whole society will languish under a new "Dark Ages." Go figure. Never once in my adult life has matching monkey fossils with geological graphs ever popped up as an essential vital emergency. But then liberal secular humanists are always trying to load people up with superfluous non-essential homework.

All things considered, I'll take the "Christmas Tree" and "Silent Night" once a year. The country will be better off.

[millefleur]

I am getting the idea that too many Jews won't be happy until they pull off their own version of the Spanish Inquisition, forcing Christians to either deny their faith and convert to agnosticism or suffer the consequences.

I've gotten that idea too.

[Mathews]

Changing a culture is freakin' hard!! My wife and I watched "A Charlie Brown Christmas" last night. It was made in either '65 or '69 and it's about the commercialism of Christmas. It really touched a part of me that I haven't felt in quite awhile. Sad to realize that there is no way a cartoon like that could ever be made today. I applaud the network for airing it. Anyway, yeah, I'd be divorced too, but I really would like to put a halt to this crap and I believe it all starts at the retail stores.

[macamadamia]

Past as prologue....In 1964, my rabbi devoted his Yom Kippur sermon to "Why Jews shouldn't vote for Barry Goldwater".I, then a precocious 16 years old, and about ONLY teenager campaigning for Barry in the Bronx...got up from my seat in the middle of this screed..and to my mother's mortification, walked out on the rabbi, and the entire 500+ congregation..right down the center aisle and out the door.


Wow, that's one heck of a scene! You had a lot of backbone for a 16 year old to do that...especially back then.

[HostileTerritory]

I'd like to think that conservatives are above indulging in victim fantasies. They feel good, yes, but they're corrosive to our culture.

[ken5050]

LOL...the passion, and wisdom, of youth..

[millefleur]

I'd like to think that conservatives are above indulging in victim fantasies. They feel good, yes, but they're corrosive to our culture.

That "fantasy" happens to be in book of Revelations of the Bible. But I guess you simply don't believe that.

[HostileTerritory]

Revelation talks about American Jews setting up a new Inquisition to force Christians to renounce their faith? Really?

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

It is the ACLU, which is overwhelmingly Jewish in terms of membership and funding, that is leading the attack against Christianity in America.

It is Jews who worship a golden calf and have turned their backs on Mosaic Law!

Nuclear Option Ping

[NotSoFreeStater]

I watched Charlie Brown last night as well. Even though I have it on tape I always watch when it airs on TV. It is sad to think that this couldn't be made today. The left always moans about censorship when they can't air their smut but the true censorship involves any program with a hint at traditional Christmas celebrations.