Posted on 12/18/2016 2:35:09 PM PST by Kaslin
The secular war on Christmas recently trained its big guns on the door of the nurses office in a Texas middle school. Squarely in its sights was a homemade poster on the door, depicting lovable Linus quoting from the childrens classic A Charlie Brown Christmas: For unto you is born this day in the City of David a savior which is Christ the Lord. . . Thats what Christmas is all about Charlie Brown.
Horrors! The Bible quoted in a public school where impressionable schoolchildren passing by would surely be exposed to the alarming idea that Christmas has something to do with Christ!
To protect these innocent youth from such depravity, the Killeen, Texas school board voted to tear down that poster! Of course, said the district in a statement, Our employees are free to celebrate the Christmas and holiday season in the manner of their choosing. However, employees are not permitted to impose their personal beliefs on students. Wait didnt they use the word that must not be spoken Christmas in their statement? What if someone read that word and felt imposed upon? And by the way, how is a cartoon character able to impose beliefs on anyone?
Meanwhile, half a world away, the ACLU (the ironically named American Civil Liberties Union) was suing the quiet hamlet of Knightstown, Indiana (2,000 residents) because the town Christmas tree had a cross on top. The cross offended freelance Grinchologist Joseph Tompkins who complained he was forced to come into direct and unwelcome contact with the cross as he passed through town, causing him irreparable harm. Yes, this grown man is absolutely terrified the cross will infect him with Zika virus -- and we thought all the delicate snowflakes were college kids!
The town caved to Mr. Tompkins emotional disorder and to the ACLU threats of legal fees and monetary damages, plus their insistence that the cross violated the First Amendments Establishment clause. The cross was removed as often happens when towns simply lack the financial resources to fight the well-funded ACLU mafia.
But then in a veritable outburst of protest, crosses began popping up throughout town, hundreds of crosses aggressively adorning homes and even cars as the people asserted their right to celebrate the Christ childs birth. No word on the safe space in which Mr. Tompkins is doubtless now cowering.
How doubly disturbing that he himself inspired the towns cross backlash, including the creativity of resident Patricia Hutson who personally made 200 wooden crosses which she distributed during a Sunday night vigil in the town square. Said she, I hope they make people realize that we should speak up for what we believe in and stand up for it and not be pushed around. Yes, but what a strangely catty-wampus out-of-whack world we live in when the ultimate act of insurrection is confirming what everybody, Christian and non-Christian, knows.
Meanwhile, back at that Charlie Brown poster on the Texas middle school nurses door, a county judge overruled the school board and allowed little Linus to quote the Bible about Jesus birthday. The judge agreed with Dedra Shannon, the nurses aide who had put up the poster, and her lawyer Jonathan Saenz, president of Texas Values a group defending, uh, values.
Said Ms. Shannon, "I am so thankful that the court ruled in my favor and that Killeen School District efforts to ban my Charlie Brown Christmas poster have failed." Added Mr. Saenz, Nothing says Merry Christmas like a court victory for religious freedom in December." If your town or group is being attacked for its expression of religious freedom, organizations like the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), the American Family Association (AFA) and Liberty Counsel stand ready to help you fight the Christianphobes.
On the other side, the American Atheists now are directly targeting teenagers in their annual billboard campaign to keep people out of church at Christmas. The group is taking cynical advantage of the restless time in which young people are apt to question their spiritual beliefs among other things.
In Colorado Springs, a hotbed of Christian faith and the home of Focus on the Family and other major ministries, a billboard along the main I-25 highway features a teenage girl texting her friend that shes not going to church because I dont believe that stuff anymore. When her friend asks what her parents will say, the girl texts back, Theyll get over it as the girls mother looks anxiously over her shoulder. The billboards huge headline proclaims, Atheist ChristmasThe more, the merrier! These messages have been displayed prominently throughout December in Virginia, Georgia, Louisiana, and South Carolina as well as Colorado.
The atheist groups are working tirelessly to convert our kids to their dead-end, hopeless, non-God ideology. Its no exaggeration to say they literally want to steal our childrens souls. And the crass, godless messages from so many films, the media, and the often profane music theyre plugged into 24/7 are powerful atheist allies.
But parents and grandparents can be even more powerful if we share our reasons for our belief, actually read the Bible and pray with our kids, and get them involved with a local church youth group of peers who can become fun friends and examples of other teens trying to lead a Christian life. Dont let the atheists claim their souls. And say Merry Christmas with a big smile every chance you get!
May the words “Merry Christmas” be said throughout the USA.
“Linus quoting from the childrens classic A Charlie Brown Christmas:”
Children’s classic? I must be an eternal child then, I am 72 and still insist on watching it at least once every year. There is more wisdom in any Peanuts story than in the entire united states government.
Submit that teacher’s poster to the libs of the American Library Ass. for next September’s “Banned Book Week”.
forced to come into direct and unwelcome contact with the cross as he passed through town, causing him irreparable harm.
Like the cross to a vampire.
https://billygraham.org/decision-magazine/march-2016/why-does-the-cross-offend-people/
Year-round!
People need to start sueing during Ramadan.
Here’s a story of the making of the Charlie Brown Christmas show, get this, some people involved thought that Linus reading from the sacred bible in a cartoon would be crass or disrespectful. Yes, you heard that right! People were actually worried about protecting the Christian religion. But the disagreement passed and it was great in the end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zJRu0qitJE
They have to prove physical bodily harm to get rulings in their favor, this crap should never even make it into the court
ACLU = American Communist Lovers Union...
Hear, hear!
I think this is more fallout from the Trump election (which itself was fallout from real Americans finally getting fed up with the PC rammed down our throats by liberals).
Trump is not afraid to say what he thinks and he is setting a GREAT example for many, many others. People who used to be afraid to say “Merry Christmas” are not so afraid any more.
How doubly disturbing that he himself inspired the towns cross backlash, including the creativity of resident Patricia Hutson who personally made 200 wooden crosses which she distributed during a Sunday night vigil in the town square.
Outstanding!
I’m 31 and enjoy Peanuts.
Deus Vult.
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 1Cor 1:18
Nuf said!
While I take no offense at people offering me a “Happy Honukkah” I don’t see any point on offending people I know might be offended.
Here in NYC there are many who don’t celebrate Christmas. I see no harm in being careful here.
But I would agree that in places where the population is 90% or better Christian I don’t see why those who don’t celebrate can’t take a “Merry Christmas” as a wish for a nice December 25th and just move on.
Then MILLIONS of people could be 'offended'!
How then; to accomplish THIS??
Luke 14:23
"The lord said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.' "
In a obscure reference to 'the town that Billy Sunday couldn't shut down' a hundred+ miles to the north; visitors could travel a few miles to the south and see Cross City, Indiana: the town that Joseph Tompkins & the ACLU couldn't beat down.
Must have been the straw.
He undoubtably passed by MANY crosses before this final one caused him to just lose it COMPLETELY!
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