Posted on 11/30/2005 6:26:41 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
‘Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there….. As an innocent child, reading my little book, I would not have believed that one day there would actually be living, breathing, people that would have an agenda to eliminate St. Nick and a cheerful Merry Christmas greeting. Though I have previously touched on this subject, I feel a need to elaborate. Especially after hearing the many news reports concerning the banning of Christmas speech around the country.
Tell me I can’t say Merry Christmas anyplace I want to! The last time I looked I was still living in America - the land of the free and the home of the brave. Free and Brave being the operative words, it is time we took them seriously. Please! Please! People! Do not cave in to this type of suppression and infringement of our God-given right of freedom of speech. Too many have been silent for too long. We are in a social, civil, war trying to hang on to a smidgen of our heritage. Stand and fight BRAVE people! We’re talkin Christmas here!
Remember when store clerks and neighbors would enthusiastically call-out "Merry Christmas" to everyone around? Christmas music filled the air -- the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas carols and contemporary holiday songs could be constantly heard on the radio until the New Year. Joyous Christmas television specials were watched by the entire family. Towns and cities appeared as Christmas villages with decorations that always included a manger scene with baby Jesus. That was Christmas! Tears have suddenly overcome me. I just realized how much I miss those times. Sadly, we let the "spirit" of Christmas slip away…. our "passivity" has eliminated the "nativity".
Has anyone stopped to think why we as a nation did not face opposition to our traditional values in years gone by? We never, I said never, heard of anyone who was offended by any national holiday. We never heard of people being offended, period! Today, for political purposes, there are people whose job it is to stir up the emotions of others and make sure they will be offended. The offended, did not think about these offenses on their own, they were prodded. Clearly, we are headed down a path where individual opinion and speech will not be tolerated. The special interest groups that are monitoring speech and the symbols of Christmas are in reality against the Christ in Christmas. If we continue to be silent, watch for the day Christmas is fazed from our calendars and the Christmas police will be knocking at our doors.
The stripping, of everything we have held dear, began years ago with the gradual infiltration of the socialist persuasion. They are now in their designated positions, as planned. They have invaded the political arena, our universities, our corporations, and have successfully brainwashed a certain sector of our population. The goal is to make us like-minded-robots, in order for them to have their utopian-new-world. They are counting on us, the masses, to do as we are told with no questions asked.
People … December 25th (Christmas) is a federal holiday! Yet city officials all the way up to Capitol Hill seem to be going along with the grinches who are stealing Christmas. I haven’t heard an outcry from any one of them. They are all in cahoots! It is up to us to save our traditions! If we do not speak up and insist on our "Holiday Rights" we will only have ourselves to blame when it becomes illegal to celebrate the "birth of Jesus." Do not be intimidated or stifled from voicing your Christmas greetings – or displaying a manger scene. Passionately campaign for Christmas at your work place, where you shop, the schools, etc.
It’s Christmas! Shout it from the rooftops! .… and I heard him explain as he drove out of sight, Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
Welcome to the land of political correctness.
Where Holiday Trees are sold and decorated with non-offensive ornaments like star and crescent symbols of islamic peace.
May the stores that refuse to acknowledge Christ's birthday be boiled in plum pudding and have a stake of holly driven through their bleeding hearts.
Coca-Cola has stopped putting Santa's image on bottles.
Hey Pepsi! Want a new customer?
My local paper was talking about this that there are no Christmas decorations.
LOL the council have just Hung them all up and its not even December yet.
The stores are full of decorations already.
Is this PC or anti PC edge really just a change from the old Christmas is too commercilaised.
Just another slant on the things were better in my day.
Wont say Merry Christmas yet it is too early.
"Remember when store clerks and neighbors would enthusiastically call-out "Merry Christmas" to everyone around? Christmas music filled the air -- the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas carols and contemporary holiday songs could be constantly heard on the radio until the New Year. Joyous Christmas television specials were watched by the entire family. Towns and cities appeared as Christmas villages with decorations that always included a manger scene with baby Jesus. That was Christmas!"
Maybe April just needs to move to where I live -- still happens here. And I have yet to have anybody tell me I can't say Merry Christmas.
>>>Shout It From The Rooftops! Too Many Have Been Silent For Too Long!
And too short. Christmas extends for 12 days, yet how many Christians go around wishing each other Merry Christmas on December 28th? As soon as the 25th passes, they move right on to the secular Happy New Year. A Hopeful Advent to you all.
Report on my effort to purchase Madonna & Child Christmas stamps from our local post office.
Tuesday, 11/29, I went to the Post Office to buy the "Madonna & Child" stamp, because I had read that if demand didn't pick up for this item, the Post Office could use that as an excuse to Stop offering it.
When I said I wanted to purchase the Madonna & Child stamps, the P. O. clerk said he would see if they had any. He left the counter and went to the back.
He returned, saying they didn't have any. And I asked who could I call to find out why? Again, he left and went to the back.
He returned, saying they must have sold out of the M&C stamp. And then I asked him did they sell out? -- or did the post office ever have them in the first place? Again, he left and went to the back.
He returned, and asked the most unusual question. He asked me how many I wanted? I just looked at him, without answering. I was speechless. Rather than waiting for my reply, he said he'd be back, he was going to look in another place. Yes, he left and went to the back. (That makes 3 trips he made to the back.)
He returned and told me that he couldn't find any, but they were "ordered" this morning, and they'd have them in 3 days.
Well, what do you think? I think I was given the run around.
Before I left, I had a brief discussion with him that we are blessed to live in a Country with religious freedom and I liked the Madonna & Child stamp, and I'd return to buy them, and then I gave him a great big "MERRY CHRISTMAS."
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Oh, well. The Lord's incarnation isn't about holly and Santa and his reindeer and elves and shopping and presents and trees and ornaments and yule logs and lights and family gatherings and overeating and...
The baby Jesus will never be more than an infant in a nativity scene for too many who give even as much as a passing thought to "the reason for the season." All that stuff has a way of diverting people's (and my) attention from the Cross (which is the reason He came, no?).
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They had plenty of the Madonna and Child stamps at my local post office. I bought the Christmas Cookie stamps for my Christmas mailings, but they had the other ones.
Actually, your post office may, indeed, have run out of them. They're very popular. Go back in three days and buy them.
You can also go to:
http://www.usps.com
And buy all the Madonna and Child stamps you like. They'll be at your home in two or three days.
Much as they want to hide it, you can't keep a good Christmas down. It's everywhere. They can try to rename it, ignore it, file suits against it, but there it is...every year. Merry Christmas!
I keep seeing this on FR. But I've just never found it to be the case. I really think people who are inclined to say Merry Christmas, throw it around until the Feast of the Epiphany - January 6. Or at least until the 2nd of January when Christmas Trees tend to come down.
I'm certainly not, and I don't know anyone who is ... and just to prove it, I'd like to take this opportunity to wish a big wet kiss MERRY CHRISTMAS to all the busy little elfs at the ACLU.
Wont say Merry Christmas yet it is too early.
l. Those decorations are all made in the PRC where Christians are murdered.
2. Christmas officially opened on Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent.
Merry Christmas.
Martin Luther King Day and Black History Month are more important to these weasels than the birth of Jesus Christ!
I stopped buying anything in Target stores last year and so have many friends and relatives.
We are the lucky recipients of a new branch don'thaveACLUe office. I heard that the only reason they hate CHRISTmas so much is because they're jealous. In their organization they can't find 3 wise men and a virgin.
/sarcasm
It does seem that satan has many followers who move among us spreading hateful political correctness and anti-Christianity.
After what they did last year, the only reason I ever go to Target is to redeem all our empty beverage cans and bottles for deposit. Target has the best machine for cans; just dump all your cans in the hopper, and it spits out a cash voucher. I take the voucher to the service desk, and the red-clad youngster gives me cash.
This time of year, I especially enjoy putting that Target cash into the Salvation Army kettle at Wal-Mart. :-)
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