Posted on 12/07/2005 4:36:31 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 it will offend?
Schools are being forced to replace "Christmas vacation" with "winter break" in their printed schedules. At Macy's, the word is verboten even though they've made untold millions of dollars from their sympathetic portrayal in the Christmas classic, "Miracle on 34th Street." Carols, even instrumental versions, are banned in certain places. 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 Pakistan 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 roughly 90 percent of Americans happen to be one sort of Christian or another, only a damn 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, 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 American Civil Liberties Union, 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But the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society – it's been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity. For example, 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 the most pro-Israel president we've ever had in the Oval Office.
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 Americans have seen fit to live up to the highest precepts of their religion. 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.
Exactly.
This author is so bending over backwards to show that he is not one of the Jews mentioned in your collection of misfits that he becomes stupid and offensive blaming all those "other" Jews.
I can't remember to which Freeper to give the credit, but someone made a very telling point recently.
If there is one city in the Nation where Jews have influence it's New York City.
The New York City tree is now and has always been called a Christmas Tree.
think of it as a shoe, whomever it fits can wear it..
What the public schools can or can't do in NYC- or in Topeka for that matter- is usually determined by rulings of the Federal Courts on the subject.
What percentage of the judiciary of the Federal Courts is Jewish? Even if every single Jewish judge was anti Christian, they wouldn't control a single final decision.
Thanks for the post.
Actually, some of us do. ;-) It's a distinction I hoped that this author would make, but didn't. Maybe he felt those of us who 'get it' already knew. But perhaps we who get it are the minority. The Jino's have help from the CINO's and Rino's as well. Where I live there is a large Catholic population, a majority. Yet it's Happy Holidays for all, in recent years, to be PC and 'tolerant'. Imagine my surprise when I was greeted by 'Happy Holidays' in the choir loft on Christmas Eve in my church by fellow Catholics! Even on that feast day, some Catholics won't greet each other in church with 'Merry Christmas'. The battle is being waged on all fronts, a bunch of grinches have united.
Cases need not go up individually.
If a school did something in Texas lets say, and a Federal Court there ruled a certain way, a ruling which was not overturned, then a school district in NYC would be advised by their counsel to follow that Texas decision or risk their own lawsuit.
That's what makes religion cases uniform nationwide.
And I go back to my original point. Even if it was the aim of every single Jewish lawyer and judge to make these laws anti Christian, they would be unable.
Which makes you right and the author wrong.
Damn....that may be the best most concise HOWL from a jewish conservative who is just as fed up as I am with all of this steady attack on our culture.
I was at an ornament party last weekend at a Jewish home with many Jews there. None of them seemed the least bit offended. (ornament party: bring ornaments or decorations...any Gomer knows what sort of Christmas season ornament to bring to a Christmas season party at a Jewish home with Jews there) ...a sense of perspective lost on those wishing to marginalize Christmas.
I am so happy to see folks fighting back.
But I would note that it truly is discouraging to see a fair number of FReepers either ambivalent about this or plain hostile to fighting back about Christmas. Eye opening.
I disagree completely.
It is high time to fight back or it will be marginalized forever.
We are not victims, we intend to prevail and preserve our culture.
is the author accurate here...if so it's one thing to say this and another for folks to believe that most Jews support this
down South at least they don't
The issues I have seen involve wishing someone a Happy Holidays in stores, etc.
Naming of trees in various location as Holiday instead of Christmas trees.
None of these issues occur under color of law.
I don't know the membership of the ACLU or similar organizations but I doubt today they are dominated by Jews.
But the issues above would not be of concern to organizations such as the ACLU anyway.
They are commercial decisions by business people.
Why they make such decisions only they- and their consultants- know.
I went to the Macy's site. Cool!
These commercial decisions are based on the perception that companies have over the issues.
And those perspectives are shaped by the drumbeat from the anti-Christmas and now the pro-Christmas which this year is finally geared up.
I think whatever legal grounds go back to Everson like nearly all screwy religious opinions here....and that danged letter Jefferson wrote to the Mass baptists they are all ga-ga over
this writer apparently knows a lot of fellow Jews with whom he disagrees with on this
that's not the case in Nashville
i saw a menorah yesterday at here Codes btw
since Christians are at least nominally 95% of the nation I'm not sure how to avoid these conflicts entirely.
That's a nice article. You of all people well know that if the Christians are put down there will be nothing between the mob and the Jews. And at that point a plaintive cry of "but I'm an aaaaa-theist" won't get them anything but more abuse before... well, we all know where the story ends.
I think it was a Mark Steyn column that was exploring the hypothesis that it was secularism in France that allowed the muslim problem to fester as it did, and left the French authorities helpless to face it down. Nature abhors a vacuum, and when religion is suppressed and stamped out (a process that has taken France a couple of hundred years to complete), something moves in to take its place.
Happy Holidays used to be ok until it became a way NOT to say Merry Christmas, or even mention "the holiday that no one dare speak its name." Now, I suggest people say Merry Christmas and a Happy Hannukah if they wish to be inclusive. There are no other overlapping festivals as far as I know, so the rest be damned.
Kwanzaa was invented by a thug, a criminal, and a racist who should be in prison, not teaching college, and it inculcates communist values. I don't approve of kwanzaa, so I won't wish anyone a happy kwaanza, except sardonically.
I don't think so, which is why I object to a piece like this.
He writes in generalities about:
Jewish judges, Jewish journalists, and the American Civil Liberties Union, at the forefront.
Seems those people should be in the public record. You and I should be able to cite these Jews.
Maybe you can. I can't at the moment.
And if you do find several Jewish Liberal journalists I will match you with an identical number of Conservative Jews whose opinion pieces will be "pro Christmas".
Thanks, FD, for this righteous article.
Burt Prelutsky is one of the top 10 greatest writers who happens to be Jewish on the planet.
God bless him.
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