Christmas
I find it sad and alarming that the traditions, values, and beliefs that have existed since the founding of our country are slowly being discarded, including Christmas.
Those who fight Christmas claim they are doing so for those minorities that have different beliefs and may be offended by the Christian holiday of Christmas. Yet in the United States about 77% of Americans profess to be Christian.
Statistics also show that 90% of Americans celebrate Christmas, even if they don’t believe in Christ. Christmas symbols, holiday parties, colors being removed from public schools and places for the 10% of people that don’t celebrate Christmas.
What about the 90% who do?
Why should the minority’s rights be more important than the majority’s?
Opps… well forget that question we are seeing it now everyday with Health Care Reform? And Cap and Trade and Global Warming?
Political Correctness
Personally, I am sick of all the political correctness in our country. Heck, in N.J. one parent, Patti Puma, whose four children attend schools in the district, asked Deputy Superintendent Dr. Thomas Neveldine about a new restriction.
According to Christian legal group Liberty Counsel, Neveldine reportedly said that Santa Claus, who is a decidedly secular symbol, is not allowed on campus because he originated from the story about St. Nicholas.
I read of one school district that didn’t even allow red and green paper plates at their “winter celebration.”
I Like This Man
I like how Ben Stein wrote and thinks about Christmas:
Next confession: I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees. It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, “Merry Christmas” to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him?
I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to. (December 18th, 2005) (The rest of the message that was said to be written by Ben Stein has been removed.)
Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to all my dear friends at AgentGenius.
Photo Credit, East Reception Room in the White House.
