The Death of Christmas, Part II: Christian Complicity

In “The Death of Christmas, Part I,” I indulged myself with musings on the good old days when Christmastime was, well, Christmastime and not Happy Holidays-time or Wondrous Winter Wonderland-time.

Public school high school and middle school musicals in those days of yore customarily presented Christmas shows in Decembers back then, reflecting the interests of students and their parental, and grandparental, units.

That’s a thing of the past, one more tradition tossed under the bus of political correctness and the new secularism sweeping the country.

And those prime but not exclusive celebrants of Christmas are as responsible as anyone else for this “revolting turn of events,” to quote from an old radio/tv show, “The Life Of Riley.”

Some of us prefer to carp about the secularization of December 25th and yet do nothing to change things.

Others, such as audiences at those “Winter Concerts” devoid of any reference to Christmas, applaud politely and listlessly in disappointment at the musical fare presented and they too do diddlyjacksquat to insist the presenters hark back to tradition.

Nor do most of us object to borderline and cross-borderline sacriligious and merely-inappropriate goings on in our society.

Those carpers, those all-too-tolerant Christmas celebrants who accept the new status quo, are as complicit in the death of Christmas as the secularists, the mockers, the retailers, and the Obama administration.

This Christmas season’s latest affronts to Christian beliefs include these “comical” representations of the birth of Jesus Christ attended by a dinosaur and a sultry Mother of God, Mary: http://bit.ly/7Gql29

All very amusing to secularists, all very blasphemous to practicing Christians who nevertheless tolerate it.

Further insult to Christian injury was added by the White House’s decision, since rescinded, to do away with the Christmas creche in the White House.

The reason for the recission seems to have been a rare grassroots objection. Obama is very attuned to grassroots, aka voters.

It was originally decided by Obama, Rahm Emanuel, and other Obamians to dispense with the traditional display of an eighteenth century creche in the East Room:

“White House social secretary Desiree Rogers revealed to The New York Times that the Obamas were planning a “non-religious” Christmas for the “people’s house,” on the basis that Christians are responsible for the secularization of our national and religious festivity: http://bit.ly/8S08aL

Precisely what “people” Rogers had in mind is unclear, considering that Christians in America constitute at least 76% of the population. . .
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And, They're Off!

And, They’re Off!


The title isn’t a reference to the Derby or the Preakness or the Belmont Stakes. It’s a reference to the annual Festival of Nativity Naysayers, aka the Feast of Christmas Humbuggers, aka the Holiday When Liberals Dump on Christians.

We’ve barely reached the pagan festival of Halloween but, never known as people who missed a chance to bash Christian beliefs, the Left is already up in arms over a 63-year Christmas tradition in Warren, Michigan.

They’re trying to ban the return of a creche scene to a public site where it has stood every year since 1945.

Perhaps emboldened by President Obama’s outrageous declaration that America is not a Christian nation and well aware it could never accomplish its goals by public referendum, the atheistic Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed suit in federal court to banish the creche.

The foundation’s basis? Why, the non-existent constitutional clause mandating a strict separation of church and state, of course.

John Satawa’s dad built and installed the creche. . .

(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1298)