Posted on 12/24/2009 11:12:12 AM PST by ezfindit
This year, America is receiving a subliminal holiday message that Nativity scenes pose a more imminent threat than Gitmo detainees being tried on American soil. Regardless of personal Christmas traditions, most Americans agree that the Nativity visually represents the biblical story of Jesus’s birth. Thus, controversial crèche issues are not about Christmas, but Christianity.
Founding Father Thomas Jefferson said that “[t]he Bible is the cornerstone of liberty … Students’ perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens, better fathers, and better husbands.”
Who could have foreseen the First Amendment becoming a secular platform to warn public schoolchildren to leave angel-shaped butter cookies home from school under threat of being “boiled [in] pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through [the] heart”?
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Walmart wishes it’s customers “Merry Christmas.”
Personally, I'm planning a freakin' roaring, blazing Yuletime Log. Come & get me, copper.
The left wants to eliminate Christianity because Christianity gives moral imperatives that conflict with the religion of liberalism. They want to replace Christianity with the middle eastern death cult, forgetting the fact that the death cult hates the atheistic liberals more than it hates the Christians.
I like the idea of a thoughtful Christmas that accomplishes good things apart from its religious observation, that enhance the religious observation.
For example, the days leading up to Christmas, it is a grand idea to remind those around you, the people you meet the rest of the week, year round, that you are friendly to them. Plates of cookies to neighbors, at the doctor’s office if you are a “frequent flyer”, even to the workers you greet at the grocery store day in and day out. A little gesture brightens the whole season for them.
Then, for those who want to do some good works, the week *after* Christmas is a terrible time for many people who feel depressed and unhappy, sometimes for a lack of sunshine and poor weather, or for no reason at all. So by spreading some post-Christmas cheer, when it is most needed, you help keep the spirit of Christmas alive.
I am going into the kitchen and help myself to another whisky ball. Come and get me, Food Police. I am calm.
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