CHRISTMAS -- GOING, GOING... GONE?

from Grasstop USA
More Brilliance by Don Feder
{conservative~by~nature's comments enclosed}

Christmas music of the future: “Have Yourself A Merry Little Holiday,” “I’m Dreaming of a White Holiday,” “I’ll Be Home For Holiday.” {Umm, not quite the same, is it?}

Christmas is being purged from our culture at an ever-accelerating pace.

Christmas parades have been replaced by Winterfests. Schools frown on Christmas decorations. Cities and towns have rechristened the municipal Christmas tree a “community tree.”

You’d have an easier time setting up a nativity scene in Saudi Arabia than in most public parks. And sales clerks wish us a “Happy Holiday!” -- as if we all celebrated something called “holiday.”

Bill O’Reilly, host of The O’Reilly Factor, charges “There is an anti-Christian bias in this country, and it is more on display at Christmas season than any other time.”

Says Bill Donahue, president of the Catholic League For Religious And Civil Rights, “This is only the beginning of the Christmas season and already the anti-Christmas crusade is in high gear.”

Overdrive would be more like it.To begin with, there are the stores that avoid the dreaded C-word in their advertising, and won’t allow their sales personnel to wish shoppers a Merry – well, you know.

The latter include Target (which, with an extra measure of bad cheer, has also banished Salvation Army kettles from its premises), Costco, BJ’s, Wal-Mart, Sears/K-Mart and Kohl’s.

{Read the full article for Mr. Feder's numerous examples of how Christmas and Christians are being attacked: Examples ~~includes a letter to Wal-Mart and their response! Just pitiful...}

And so it is. Each year, Christmas recedes further from view. This notwithstanding that, according to a recent Newsweek survey, 85% of this nation is Christian. (On a percentage-of-population basis, America is more Christian than Israel is Jewish -- more Christian than India is Hindu.)

A FOX News poll informs us that 96 % of the American people celebrate Christmas – which means a lot of non-Christians are decking the halls too. So the above de-Santa-zation process is all for 4% of the population?

Not even. Many who don’t celebrate Christmas have no objection to Christmas trees, carols, mangers in parks, Santas in parades or the lady at the cash register saying “Merry Christmas.” I should know; I’m one of them.

When I was in grade school, back in the ‘50s, we sang Christmas carols and made Christmas ornaments. And, guess what – I wasn’t emotionally scarred for life.

What’s the big deal? I’m a Jew who lives in an overwhelmingly Christian nation. (Are Christians who live in Israel offended when someone wishes them a Happy Hanukah?) Christmas has been celebrated on these shores -- in one form or another -- since the earliest settlements.

Christmas is part of the fabric of America – from Washington’s first Christmas message to the Continental Army (1776), to the famous 1897 New York Sun editorial (“Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus”), to the 1947 classic “Miracle on 34th. Street,” to the American troops who celebrated Christmas in the Pacific and on the battlefields of Europe during World War II, and later in the jungles of Vietnam .

Will Americans serving in Iraq have holiday trees, sing “Frosty The Snowman,” or take part in the rituals of Siberian Shamanism on Christmas eve? Will they eagerly await seasonal presents from home, or enjoy a holiday dinner on December 25th?

Ironically, American Christians stationed in a Moslem country may feel more Christmas spirit than the folks they’re guarding back home.

There’s a war over there, and a war over here. The secularist assault on Christmas (unwittingly aided by the perpetually aggrieved and sensitivity-whipped){i.e. the "politically correct"} is one front in the war on America’s Judeo-Christian heritage.

Other battle zones include , Ten Commandments monuments, God in the Pledge of Allegiance, stigmatizing the Boy Scouts, advances of the culture of death, and attempts to impose homosexual marriage by judicial fiat (thus undoing the morality of both Sinai and Bethlehem). {Read agendabuster's blog for some of these controversies: Busting Agendas; or some of my blogs in conservatives unite on the euthanasia wars.}

The militantly secularist Anti-Defamation League was shocked by the results of a poll it recently commissioned, indicating that 64% of Americans believe “religion is under attack” in this nation. (Among evangelical and charismatic Christians, that figure is 80%.)

That’s because religion is under attack in America. From now through December 25th, they’ll be take-no-prisoner, hand-to-hand combat in school corridors, public parks, parades and retail establishments. {Unless, we speak up! BOYCOTT the retailers; and fight in the courts for OUR Constitutional rights!}

Incoming, Santa!


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