Posted on 12/06/2006 12:41:42 AM PST by goldstategop
I never thought I'd live to see the day that Christmas would become a dirty word. You think it hasn't? Then why is it that people are being prevented from saying it in polite society for fear that it will offend? Schools are being forced to replace "Christmas vacation" with "winter break" in their printed schedules. At some major retail chains, the word is verboten, replaced as a matter of policy by the generic Happy Holidays. Carols, even instrumental versions, are banned in certain locales. A major postal delivery service has not only made their drivers doff their Santa caps, but ordered them not to decorate their trucks with Christmas wreaths.
How is it, one well might ask, that in a Christian nation this is happening? And in case you find that designation objectionable, would you deny that India is a Hindu country, that Turkey is Muslim, that Poland is Catholic? That doesn't mean those nations are theocracies. But when the overwhelming majority of a country's population is of one religion, and most Americans happen to be one sort of Christian or another, only a darn fool would deny the obvious.
Although it seems a long time ago, it really wasn't, that people who came here from other places made every attempt to fit in. Assimilation wasn't a threat to anyone; it was what the Statue of Liberty represented. E pluribus unum, one out of many, was our motto. The world's melting pot was our nickname. It didn't mean that any group of people had to check their customs, culture or cuisine, at the door. It did mean that they, and especially their children, learned English, and that they learned to live and let live.
That has changed, as you may have noticed. And I blame my fellow Jews. When it comes to pushing the multicultural, anti-Christian, agenda, you find Jewish judges, Jewish journalists and the ACLU at the forefront.
Being Jewish, I should report, Christmas was never celebrated by my family. But what was there not to like about the holiday? To begin with, it provided a welcome two-week break from school. The decorated trees were nice, the lights were beautiful, "It's a Wonderful Life" was a great movie, and some of the best Christmas songs were even written by Jews.
But the dirty little secret in America is that, in spite of the occasional over-publicized rants by the likes of Mel Gibson and Michael Richards, anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society; it's been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity. For example, much of the hatred spewed toward George W. Bush has far less to do with his policies than it does with his religion. The Jews voice no concern when a Bill Clinton or a John Kerry makes a big production out of showing up at black Baptist churches or posing with Rev. Jesse Jackson because they understand that's just politics. They only object to politicians attending church for religious reasons.
My fellow Jews, who often have the survival of Israel heading the list of their concerns when it comes to electing a president, only gave 26 percent of their vote to Bush, even though he is clearly one of the most pro-Israel presidents we've ever had in the Oval Office. Unlike Clinton, who had Yasser Arafat sleeping in the Lincoln Bedroom so often even Monica Lewinsky got jealous, Bush saw to it that the Palestinian butcher was persona non grata at the White House.
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 they who have conned far too many people into believing that the phrase "separation of church and state" actually exists somewhere in the Constitution.
You may have noticed, though, that the ACLU is highly selective when it comes to religious intolerance. The same group of self-righteous shysters who at the drop of a "Merry Christmas" will slap you with an injunction will fight for the right of an American Indian to ingest peyote and a devout Islamic woman to be veiled on her driver's license.
I happen to despise bullies and bigots. I hate them when they represent the majority, but no less when, like Jews in America, they represent an infinitesimal minority.
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 should point out that many of these people abhor Judaism every bit as much as they do Christianity. They're the ones who behave as if atheism were a calling. They're the nutcakes who go berserk if anyone even says, "In God we trust" or mentions that the Declaration of Independence refers to a Creator with a capital "C." By this time, I'm only surprised that they haven't begun a campaign to do away with Sunday as a day of rest. After all, it's only for religious reasons – Christian reasons – that Sunday, and not Tuesday or Wednesday, is so designated.
This is a Christian nation, my friends. And all of us are fortunate it is one, and that so many millions of Americans have seen fit to live up to the highest precepts of their religion. It should never be forgotten that, in the main, it was Christian soldiers who fought and died to defeat Nazi Germany and who liberated the concentration camps. Speaking as a member of a minority group – and one of the smaller ones at that – I say it behooves those of us who don't accept Jesus Christ as our savior to show some gratitude to those who do, and to start respecting the values and traditions of the overwhelming majority of our fellow citizens, just as we keep insisting that they respect ours.
Merry Christmas, my friends.
In that spirit, let's wish our fellow Christian Americans Merry Christmas.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
So when do Christians and Jews start to file lawsuits against Ramadamadingdong and Kawa-what-its name for being offensive?
"I should point out that many of these people abhor Judaism every bit as much as they do Christianity. They're the ones who behave as if atheism were a calling."
This is the key point. The miltant secularizers are really promoting another religion - - their faith in the messianic welfare/warfare state with its reigning deity "WeThePeople", its high priesthood, SCOTUS and the federal judiciary, and its local bully-boy enforcers, ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and a menagerie of federal agencies and regulatory bodies that have long since scrapped whatever constraints on Rome-on-the-Potomac were codified in the Bill of Rights (e.g., amendment 10). Any apparent remaining constraints are a burp of the word processor away from being trashed by some new SCOTUS decision (e.g., the recent expansion of "eminent domain").
When "WeThePeople" gets back its own voice, having been turned into the SCOTUS' ventriloquist dummy over the years, it will find itself dealing with the unfunded liability for "entitlement programs" that has now accumulated to about 5 years of GDP, an economy that has been hollowed out by vigorous "outsourcing" of productive capacity, the tyrannical regulatory apparatus that has been imposed on it in the name of this great beast ordained by it, and a fiscal system that has been run into the ground by generations of vote buying and special interest pandering. It made its own mess, and it will get to wallow in it until something new comes along to take out the trash and start over.
Prelutsky is spot on, of course.
Listen out on the AM radio for two wicked parodies:
"Have a Rama/Hannu/Kwanzaa/mas!"
"We wish you a Merry Christmahannukwanzaamas!"
even after the fall of kramer......
we still need a festivus for the rest of us!!!!!
"So when do Christians and Jews start to file lawsuits against Ramadamadingdong and Kawa-what-its name for being offensive?"
I heard a great holiday called "Ramahanakwanzamas"!
I think that encapsulates (?) everything!
Alouette is Jewish and doesn't celebrate Christmas.
Merry Christmas, my FReeper friends!
My husband, a rabbi who has a white beard, always gets wide-eyed looks from little kids this time of year. He used to get a big kick out of smiling back at the kids and saying, "Santa always knows when you are naughty or nice!"
Sadly, he no longer smiles or acknowledges the children who stare at him because our society has been educated to believe that all friendly strangers=pedophiles.
I am Jewish and pro life and love Christmas. For the record, many of the members of People for the Unamerican Way are not Jewish. Prelutsky should stop blaming the Jews - some of the people he alludes to may have been born Jewish but they are Jews in Name Only as far as I am concerned. They worship at the altar of the Democratic Party and they do not care about Israel! Would Burt consider pro abort Dick Durbin a practicing Catholic? Or Nancy Pelosi? They practice child sacrifice as far as I am concerned.
When you say the "Jewish Left" - and I grew up with these people - you might as well say the "atheist Left". They do not practice Judaism. Read David Mamet's book on self-hatred - he writes a lot about people who are identified as Jews (Toni Kushner would be one) but do not practice Judaism, hate Judaism and hate Israel. The bottom line is that they are turncoats - but since people hate turncoats they identify themselves with the religion into which they were born but do not practice. Nobody likes a person who totally betrays his own people.
Although the article was on the whole wise & very well expressed, I think he also underestimates the existence of anti-semitism in this country. It's still very much alive & well, only now it's coming from a different place: the far left. Joe Lieberman sure found that out the hard way this fall.
Allow me to be another FreeperJew who whole-heartedly endorses everything Bert says. When I shop during this season and the clerk at Macy's or wherever says "Happy Holidays" I stare back at them, smile, and what they hear from this Jewish punim (face) is a loud "Merry Christmas!"
Secular humanists, progressives, even "liberals" most of the time; all these names are nothing more than code names for socialists and leftists, there's no difference at all. We ought to go ahead and label them what they really are, instead of letting them hide behind all the euphemisms they pick for cover.
You are so on the mark. Yes, we have to deal with the Pat Buchanans who screech about the Jooooooos but the anti-Semitism on the Far Left is far greater and, unfortunately, embraced by many of our fellow Jews. Prelutsky didn't really go into that very much in his op ed.
I believe PFAW was founded by two Jews, two Catholics, and I believe a Presbyterian, which makes it a Jewish organization to those who count. Ironically the most prominent founder, Norman Lear, was a registered Republican at the time. Admittedly due to his disgust with Carter, he was a John Anderson supporter.
And if you google "Jewish Nazis" you will see pictures of jews who served the third reich as generals and admirals etc.
But in the end they too wound up in death camps. The efficiency of the system orverruled their "papers of exemption even signed by Hitler himself".
Moral of the story: disowning ones heritage won't save you from destruction.
No Jews served Hitler as "generals and admirals." The most any exemption got was a delay or unreliable protection from outright murder, but certainly Jews weren't permitted to be treated equally by special exemption, and absolutely not in the armed forces.
I suspect a google search of "Jewish Nazis" to turn up more bogus and revisionist sources than a search for muffin recipes or dog breeds might.
Even if the search turns up legitimate historical sites among the denier, revisionist and anti-Semitic sites, the "Jewish" generals and admirals were most probably 3rd generation descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity in the 1800's. They were "Jews" only according to the Nuremburg racial laws but they did not consider themselves to be Jews in any way, shape or form.
How does George Soros stack up?
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