As I was flipping the through the endless number of channels on the television the other night I was struck by something I saw in almost every advertisement being shown. It had been creeping up on us since before Halloween passed on the calendar, but now the full onslaught had been unleashed. The Holiday Season had arrived! Or so business in America had said so. Every department store, car maker, food and beverage company, restaurant, hotel chain and all other businesses involved in the greatest yearly push for the summit of free market capitalism were on point. As I watched the many sometimes amusing advertisements, I noticed a common theme, Happy Holidays. It seems most everybody or every company in this country at this time of year has an identity crisis of sorts. The constant monotonous drumming of the politically correct police, their allies and spokespeople and their mantra of removing everything associated with Christianity and it's value systems in this country has taken it's toll. We are caving in as a society to a minority of people who through taxpayer funded organizations like the ACLU file lawsuit after lawsuit trying to remove crosses, nativity scenes, signs and other forms of Christian faith and celebration that have been hallmarks of our existence for generations. By trying to water down the holy season of Thanksgiving and Christmas to a celebration of material gifts and parties with no true meaning of hope and love is a crime with high moral implications and fallout. This attack on Christmas reflects a broader more methodical battle plan by secular groups to sanitize the American landscape of God and his Holiness along with the moral absolution that holds our laws together and inspired our founding principles. We must not let it happen!
I grew up saying Merry Christmas, reciting grace at the table, going to church, singing Silent Night and Joy to the World. Each year we set up a manger in our house and it held a prominent place right next to the Christmas tree. Yea, we loved the presents, what kid didn't, but it was bigger than that. We celebrated as family under God's grace and gave thanks to God for our good health, families and friends. By steadily stepping backwards from the endless assault on our rights and liberties we are now at the cliff's edge. I believe we are a generation away from the abolition of Thanksgiving and Christmas as we know it. Go ahead and laugh if you want. Call me an alarmist and reckless intolerant. But with our continued slide into moral oblivion and catatonic state of apathy we will give the secular minions a crushing victory. I challenge you to investigate for yourselves. See if you can't find numerous examples of either pending legal action or existing sanctions against churches, Christian groups, our laws, rights and liberties as it pertains to our daily lives let alone Thanksgiving and Christmas. When we remove what is considered rightfully lawful, traditional and holy then we take away all restraint to act otherwise. Can any of you tell me that the traditions of this joyous time of year have harmed you irrevocably by driving by a lighted Nativity Scene? Have your eyes burned out of their sockets by seeing a cross on top of a church? Are your ears melting because somebody said Merry Christmas to you or invited you to church to celebrate the birth of Jesus? Sounds ridiculous right? Not half as ridiculous as the arguments against them. But then again, why worry be happy it's the Holidaze!!
1 Cor 11 1-3
1 Be you followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
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