Posted on 12/17/2019 3:30:18 AM PST by Kaslin
Many on the left (as opposed to liberals) have been warring on Christmas for more than a generation. Leftists always deny there is a war on Christmas and mock those who claim there is.
There is a mind-blowing chutzpah or lack of self-awareness when people do something and yet deny that they are actually doing it. But the evidence is overwhelming. The left has stopped schools from calling Christmas vacations by that name -- the name schools called them throughout American history until the last couple of decades. Almost every non-Christian school in America now calls Christmas vacation "winter break." Fewer and fewer Americans, stores, companies or media wish people a "Merry Christmas," preferring the neutered "happy holidays" (despite the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans celebrate Christmas). And in but one generation, virtually every American business has gone from having a "Christmas party" to having a "holiday party."
Having written in the past about the falsehood of "Merry Christmas," "Christmas vacation" and "Christmas party" not being "inclusive," I will not reiterate the point here. Suffice it to say that it takes a breathtaking level of narcissism for a non-Christian to be offended by mentions of Christmas and a breathtaking level of meanness to seek to deprive the vast majority of fellow Americans of the public mention of their holiday.
Rather, I want to try to explain why this has happened.
The "inclusive" argument is so absurd -- I am a religious Jew and cannot even fathom being offended or feeling "not included" by an invitation to a Christmas party -- that there have to be other, or at least additional, reasons for the left's neutering of Christmas.
There are.
One is that the left sees in Christianity its primary ideological and political enemy. And it is right to do so. The only large-scale organized opposition to the left comes from the traditional Christian community -- evangelical Protestants, traditional Catholics and faithful Mormons -- and Orthodox Jews. Leftism is a secular religion, and it deems all other religions immoral and false.
From Karl Marx to Vladimir Lenin to George Soros, the left has regarded religion in general and Christianity in particular as the "opiate of the masses" -- a drug that dulls the masses into accepting their oppressed condition and, thereby, keeps them from engaging in revolution.
The left understands that the more people believe in Christianity (and Judaism), the less chance the left has to gain power. The left doesn't concern itself with Islam, because it perceives Islam as an ally in its war against Western civilization, and because leftists do not have the courage to confront Islam. They know that confronting religious Muslims can be fatal, whereas confronting religious Christians entails no risks.
Second, the left regards Christianity in America as an intrinsic part of American national identity -- an identity it wishes to erode in favor of a "world citizen" identity. The left has not only warred against Christmas; it has sought to undermine other national identity holidays. For any number of reasons, not only including the left, Americans no longer celebrate George Washington's birthday (it has de facto been replaced by the utterly meaningless "Presidents Day") or Abraham Lincoln's birthday, as they did when I was a child, my father was a child and his father was a child. The only American celebrated in a national holiday is Martin Luther King Jr., which is acceptable to the left since he is not white. One proof of the left's desire to undermine specifically American national holidays is its war on the two remaining specifically American holidays: July Fourth and Thanksgiving.
The left deems Thanksgiving a historical fraud and an immoral celebration of "genocide" of the American Indians -- which is what American children are now taught in many American public schools. And "happy Thanksgiving" has been replaced by "happy holidays." As for July Fourth, The New York Times is leading the undermining of the celebration of America's birthday by declaring that the real founding of America was 1619, the year, The Times asserts, African slaves first arrived on the American continent.
Of course, there is still Veterans Day and Memorial Day, but they are not specifically American national holidays; just about every country has such holidays.
But Christmas is a problem for the left. It celebrates religion, and it does so in quintessentially American ways (take American Christmas music, for example).
The third and final reason is that the left is joyless. Whatever and whomever the left influences has less joy in life. I have met happy and unhappy liberals, and happy and unhappy conservatives, but I've never encountered a happy leftist. And the further left you go, the more angry and unhappy the people you will encounter. Happy women and happy blacks, for example, are far more likely to be conservative than on the left.
Christmas is just too happy for the left. "Holly, jolly" is not a left-wing term.
They are anti-God as they think they are God.
Satan probably doesn’t get too jacked up over it, either.
Left can’t stand that there is another group of people that have a different sense of justice than they do.
A classic from Mr. Clough:
https://web.archive.org/web/20121117185708/http://www.weirdrepublic.com/episode48.htm
I blame Bob Seger’s version of Little Drummer Boy.
What’s wrong with it? I don’t have no sound, so I can’t play it.
The Pilgrims didn’t like Christmas, either. For about 30 years, it actually was illegal to celebrate Christmas. They thought it was another “made up” thing by Church of England and Catholics, and not Scriptural. IIRC the “mas” part of ChristMAS started as “mass”.
Just an awful version of the song :)
By his 10th parumpapumpum, you’re reaching for the seek button.
Miserable wretches thrive on their misery
it is amazing. Recently at a party the wife of a lifelong friend went off against the Salvation Army.
I get that we can have complaints against charities.
However, she was just railing and belligerent -— and finally a few of us understood that she was just miserable that evening and we would have to ignore.
“The third and final reason is that the left is joyless. Whatever and whomever the left influences has less joy in life. I have met happy and unhappy liberals, and happy and unhappy conservatives, but I’ve never encountered a happy leftist. And the further left you go, the more angry and unhappy the people you will encounter. Happy women and happy blacks, for example, are far more likely to be conservative than on the left.”
I don’t like Christmas either, I am not into stuff and I hate throwing money away on stuff none of us needs, so I guess that makes me a scrooge. I hate pretending life is like a Hallmark movie, when it is extremely complicated and you have to watch out wolves in sheeps’ clothing at every turn. I do like Christmas cookies.
And, Jesus was not born in December. He was born during the census where all in Rome had to travel to their respective cities of enrollment. And the travel was not in December. In was in warmer weather.
The catholics couldn't break adherents from the above festivals, so they incorporated the festivals into their own rituals.
The left does not have any joy because it is under the control of the devil.
The left understands that the more people believe in Christianity (and Judaism), the less chance the left has to gain power. The left doesn’t concern itself with Islam, because it perceives Islam as an ally in its war against Western civilization, and because leftists do not have the courage to confront Islam.
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Look around the world. Islam is friendly to authoritarian and corrupt governments.
In the past two years we have cut way back on Christmas. We put a few ornaments on a small Norfolk pine, we have one wreath outside, I did make some cookies, they’re in the freezer for Christmas Day. Our gifts to the family is a trip far away to celebrate our son’s birthday. Memories are the best Christmas. Six inches of snow. Quiet and peaceful.
Anti-Christian goes hand in hand with anti-white male. Corporate America is the WORST offender. Employees are forbidden to mention religious holidays by name.
All you get is “Happy Holiday”. Ads also are bereft of any mention of religiosity. The exception is the jewelry stores. No one wants to “offend” the 1.2% of the population who are Muslims. Afraid of being sued by CAIR.
So they are being “all-inclusive”. HR departments staffed by lesbians. When did you ever see a white male in an HR department? It’s like the doctors’ offices. And the post offices. Mail carriers are now either female, black or hispanic.
These are relatively well-paying jobs. What do they have in common? No WHITE MALE employees!!!!! Only minorities or a female gestapo. Why doesn’t anyone scream about the blatant discrimination going on in these industries?
Why aren’t there any lawsuits defending white males who couldn’t get jobs in these areas? Oh the answer from these haters always is no males because the males can find BETTER PAYING JOBS elsewhere. Yeah sure honey. No discrimination. Right.
From Karl Marx to Vladimir Lenin to George Soros, the left has regarded religion in general and Christianity in particular as the “opiate of the masses” — a drug that dulls the masses into accepting their oppressed condition and, thereby, keeps them from engaging in revolution.
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They are wrong. Early Christianity and Renaissance Christianity are noteworthy for empowering people. We wouldn’t have modern Democracy without Christianity.
Their religion is their political dogma and there’s no room for standards that don’t conform. Unless, of course, those external standards are enforced with threats of murder and rape, like Islam. The lefts’ beliefs will still accommodate cowardice.
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