Bring Back Christmas

It’s time for us to bring Christmas and God back into the language of every day life in our country. The progressives have for too long been able to gradually eliminate God from our celebrations, from our schools, from our leisure activities, and from our daily language and conversation. Our country was founded with God as a cornerstone of our underlying principles and values. It is clear to me, the further we have gotten away from God and the more we have, as a society, limited God in our daily lives, the more complex, dangerous and difficult our lives have become. Don’t get me wrong. I am by no means a religious zealot. Not by a long shot. In fact the truth be told I am a terrible Christian. Since becoming an adult a very long time ago, I have attended church only sporadically. Though I tried to bring my children up in a Christian environment, I did a very poor job of getting them or my family to church on any regular basis. I currently have no church I call home and I have not been to church on any sort of a regular basis for over ten years. I only mention this early on to eliminate any attitude that I am some religious zealot hell bent on converting every one to Christianity.

One of the fundamental reasons our forefathers came to this country was to have the ability and right to practice religious freedom. In the founding of this country they were wise enough to determine, in our Constitution, religious freedom for all individuals and a clear distinction between church and state. The basic concept of separation of church and state has been so over worked and over interpreted by all the legalistic progressives it has all but eliminated the right of Christians to exercise their religious beliefs. As with our founding fathers, the majority of the population of America, is Christian or at least Judeo-Christian. I am curious when atheism became a “religion”. I may not be the sharpest knife in the drawer but I have always thought “religion” was the antithesis of atheism. If this is still true, why do the atheists have any right whatsoever to post their “beliefs” in the same arena as religious postings? Why does the progressive ACLU always come out on the side of the atheists in any controversy of religion versus atheism? There is absolutely no theological basis to atheism yet they are treated as though they have the same “religious” rights as theologically based religions. But I digress. Again, Judeo-Christians still make up the majority of our country and have since our inception. As such why and how have we become so limited in our ability and our right to exercise our religious beliefs. As a country we do a better job than any other country in the world of tolerating and accepting different religions. Since Judeo-Christians make up the majority of our country, we have historically celebrated meaningful religious events such as Christmas without incident. All of the other major religions in the world have their particular religious celebrations designated as national holidays. However these holidays are recognized in their countries of origin. Other non-Christian countries, such as Muslims, do not honor or set aside holidays for the Christian believers: To my knowledge, nor do the Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, or any of the more pagan religions. If having national holidays set aside for ones religion were so extremely important, perhaps individuals of the other religions would not have chosen to come to America but stayed at home, the national base of their religious beliefs and commitments. But they didn’t stay home. They chose to come to America knowing full well we do not celebrate their personal religion as a national holiday in America. Should these individuals be granted personal leave without punishment from their places of employment to celebrate their most meaningful religious holidays? Why not? I would totally support and honor this for any one. I would support them being given time off as a “holiday” just like Christmas for the Christians. Just don’t expect the majority of the country to stop and make your religion a national priority. Your religious preference is not in the majority of our country. If you so desperately need or want a national holiday to celebrate the most important days of your religion, perhaps you should not have come to America. Perhaps you should go back to your native country during such events rather than try and dictate to America what our religious holidays should be and what they should be called. You have the right to exercise your religion in America like everyone else. Do as you will to celebrate but do not expect me join in with you. I will respect your beliefs and fight for your right to believe how you wish but I will not sacrifice my rights in place of yours.

I have been calling for you, America, to stand up and fight for what you believe and to stop being run over by the progressives who are far out numbered by the rest of us. We need to get back to the fundamental principles and values on which this great nation was founded. We need to stop being silent and make our voices, our wishes, our demands heard! We need to stand together and bring Christmas back into our lives, our conversations, our basic values. We need to support, in great numbers, retailers who will stand with us and call this holiday what it is - the Christmas Holiday. We need to come out in large numbers and loudly, proudly, courageously utter the phrase MERRY CHRISTMAS at every opportunity. We need to let everyone know we are done acquiescing our rights, our beliefs, our principles, our values. Together America we are the greatest force in this country and we are the vast majority! Set out to take back this great country of ours. I cannot think of a better place to start than putting Christmas back in our lives. Celebrate openly with pride and dignity. Let not one person or group take us off track. Our ancestors fought for our right to keep and practice our principles and values. Our young, courageous military is fighting two wars today to keep our principles and values alive! Don't let the politicians, the progressives spin it any other way! Celebrate Christmas and demand as a nation we be allowed to call the holiday what it is - the celebration of Christmas!