The Gay Marriage War on Christmas

[AnnInLa]

Want to turn that frown upside down? (Shut-up, Rose) This is one of the funniest things you will read during this Holiday Season....over at:

http://blogs.salon.com/0002874


The Gay Marriage War on Christmas



This Agape Press "First Person" essay is a little confusing, but I think that's what it's about. Let's take a look at it.

Christmas Under Fire -- and the Return of the Grinch
By Ralph Barker

big, hilarious snip

We Christians are the worst when it comes to standing up for our rights and claiming what is ours. Attention Christians! Christmas is definitely ours. It is the celebration of the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ. Certainly unbelievers can enjoy the season and merchants can make their money, but the essence of Christmas is Christ. It is a Christian holiday.

Translation: Yeah! Christmas is OUR holiday, so while we will permit Jews, Hindus, agnostics, African-Americans, etc. to exist during the Christmas season (and maybe we'll even allow them to enjoy the twinkly lights, crowded malls, and the song about the Little Drummer Boy Who Got Run Over By a Reindeer) it is only on sufferance, for everything that happens between Halloween and the middle of January belongs to us.

The attack on Christmas is heating up again in 2005. John Gibson of Fox News has released a new book, The War on Christmas. <...> We need to understand this war, fight it, and win it. We need to get offended. We need to get mad. We need to do something this year to stem this tide toward a totally Christ-less holiday.




Translation: So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this Happy Holidays crap anymore!" Or maybe instead of going to your window, go to your oven. Yeah, go to your oven, open your oven, and stick your head in it, turn on the gas, and yell, "I'm as mad as hell at Target for not doing everything I tell it to -- especially when I think of all the money I spent there on colorful dishware and cheap, Chinese-made apparel -- and I'm not going to take this anymore!" And then breathe deeply the fumes of righteous indignation. Do it. Do it now!

The Grinch is back, but this time he's not working alone. Macy's, Target, and many other huge retailers have joined him in efforts to steal the true meaning of the Christmas season and replace it with a secularized, paganized, non-religious holiday.

(I personally feel it should be illegal for our country's retail chains to attempt to secularize our religious holidays. After all, if we can't learn about the life and teachings of Jesus in Macy's, then where will we pick up the spirtual truths that compose the true meaning of Christmas? )

Much more at link above, and it is right-on and very funny.

[Gman]

1. So I guess the fundies think they own the period of time from

Thanksgiving to Christmas and no one else better lay any claim or have their own celebrations or else they hate Christ.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. If Christians want to celebrate Christmas

the way their fundamentalist ancestors did, it would not be a holiday. (In Puritan Massachusetts, it wasn't recognized as a holiday until the 1850s.) There would be no feasting. The Pilgrims teated it as another work day (unless it fell on Sunday), and frowned on those who celebrated in any way. Definately no presents, no Santa, no trees, no decorations.

[xchrom]

3. hysterical!

[LiberalPersona]

4. Christmas

has been a secular holiday my whole life. It has been a celebration of generosity and compassion my whole life, never about the birth of some man that lived 2000 years ago.
Anyone is free to celebrate it however they please, but they are NOT free to steal it and make it their own holiday. No one "owns" any day of the year because time is not a piece of property.

[magicoflife]

I say merry Christmas to all I pass this time of year

even at Walmart and I am proud of being a Christian especially this time of year! Noone will ever take it away from me. The funny part or maybe confusing part is when I purchase a gift and the cahsier says Happy Holidays, I look her/him straight in the eye and say Merry Christmas. Then they whisper to me as I am leaving Merry Christmas to you too.

The P.C. police have gone way too far with this one. It is really ok to call it a christmas tree. You wont die, you wont be forced to believe in Jesus. When the tree originally came to Boston it was called a christmas tree.

[BR_Parkway]

5. "we will permit Jews, Hindus, agnostics, African-Americans, etc. to exist"

Am I reading that right? The Fundies will allow all these other groups to exist? :wtf:


I know that there are alot of them who seem hell-bent on ethnic/religious cleansing of the world, but have they ever been that direct about it before?

[Ioo]

6. Same here...

So is this oerson saying that African-Americans are a faith, and not allowed to be in Christmas

[liberalpress]

7. Satire pure and simple