Imagine, if you will, a gala birthday party given in your honor. The guests will sing, dance, give presents, eat, drink, and have the merriest of times. The hitch: your name will not be mentioned, the gifts will not be for you, the celebrants won’t be thinking about you, and everyone would sort of prefer that you not come.
I normally don’t refer to, what I consider a spritual battle that goes on every day, the attempt to squelch Christmas from the U.S. culture as the “War on Christmas.” Maybe, it’s because I know how badly secularists cringe at this expression. However, this post in the New American is so good and so succinct that I will give its headline its just reward.
Be sure to click to the full story where you can get information on the steps to take “to defend against the War on Christmas.”
After all, there truly is a War on Christmas!
This by John Eidsmoe for the New American:
The War on Christmas
Because “public life” now entails virtually every part of our lives, erasing references to God entirely from public life means virtually eliminating them from America.
Imagine, if you will, a gala birthday party given in your honor. The guests will sing, dance, give presents, eat, drink, and have the merriest of times. The hitch: your name will not be mentioned, the gifts will not be for you, the celebrants won’t be thinking about you, and everyone would sort of prefer that you not come.
That’s all that will be left of Christmas if various groups have their way. All across the country, this year as in the past several years, there has been a concerted drive to remove all vestiges of Christianity from the celebration of Christ’s birthday. For example:
• Public schools increasingly call Christmas vacation something like “winter break.”
• Students and teachers are discouraged or prohibited from wishing each other “Merry Christmas,” preferring “Happy Holidays” or “Seasons Greetings” instead.
• Christmas trees are either banned or called “winter trees.”
• Public-school Christmas programs, er, pardon me, “winter programs,” go heavy on “Frosty the Snowman” and “Deck the Halls,” but the traditional Christmas carols are censored.
• Retail store employees are instructed to wish their customers “Happy Holidays” or “Seasons Greetings” rather than “Merry Christmas.”
• Retail catalogs tout their goods as perfect for “the season” but avoid mentioning Christ or Christmas.
• Christmas cards, if I may call them that, wish our friends the “joys of the season” but commonly omit the “Reason for the season.”
• Public buildings such as city halls, fire and police departments, etc., feature holiday displays with holly, reindeer, and candy canes, but no manger scenes and no Baby Jesus.
These practices are far from universal. But they are increasing, and they are part of a concerted drive to cleanse the public arena from any and all vestiges of America’s Judeo-Christian heritage…
Full Story/New American
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