The War on Christmas
Since today is Dec 1st, I feel no guilt in starting a review about Christmas. Usually it would be about warm feelings and family memories, but I'm afraid that I have a more important issue to address.
John Gibson, an opinion anchor on Fox News Channel, wrote a book called The War on Christmas and it posts concerns about the trend in recent years to phase out Christmas from the public world. John's (and my) beef with political correctness is not a new one and this addresses only one facet of a much larger problem, but it's a place to start.
The politically correct (PC) crowd started this war when they influenced stores and businesses around the country to replace "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays" and "Season's Greetings". They state that the phrase using the name of the holiday is offensive to the minority so we should now impose restrictions on when and where this holiday is observed, even though 85% of Americans claim to be Christian of some type. Songs in school pagents have been cancelled, employees have been reprimanded for using the Christmas phrase, the colors red and green have been banned from streets in Plano, Tx for this part of the year. What?!? Since when is Christmas illegal and when does being offended mean the majority can't celebrate a holiday we love in public? I for one will say "Merry Christmas" to whoever I feel like and if they don't like it then they can hate me for all I care.
Let me turn the tables for a second. For the last year and a half I have lived as a minority in a predominantly Jewish and Muslim country. When their holidays roll around do I sue them if they say various holiday related phrases to me? Does it cause me to feel unwelcome in stores that celebrate them or alienate me from the people that do? NO, of course not! In fact, I have never felt more welcome in homes and families that I visit than on holidays.
So what is this? Is it really about making sure that people don't feel offended or unwelcome? Or is it one more step in the subtle secularization of America? I know what I think.... Merry Christmas everyone.
John Gibson, an opinion anchor on Fox News Channel, wrote a book called The War on Christmas and it posts concerns about the trend in recent years to phase out Christmas from the public world. John's (and my) beef with political correctness is not a new one and this addresses only one facet of a much larger problem, but it's a place to start.
The politically correct (PC) crowd started this war when they influenced stores and businesses around the country to replace "Merry Christmas" with "Happy Holidays" and "Season's Greetings". They state that the phrase using the name of the holiday is offensive to the minority so we should now impose restrictions on when and where this holiday is observed, even though 85% of Americans claim to be Christian of some type. Songs in school pagents have been cancelled, employees have been reprimanded for using the Christmas phrase, the colors red and green have been banned from streets in Plano, Tx for this part of the year. What?!? Since when is Christmas illegal and when does being offended mean the majority can't celebrate a holiday we love in public? I for one will say "Merry Christmas" to whoever I feel like and if they don't like it then they can hate me for all I care.
Let me turn the tables for a second. For the last year and a half I have lived as a minority in a predominantly Jewish and Muslim country. When their holidays roll around do I sue them if they say various holiday related phrases to me? Does it cause me to feel unwelcome in stores that celebrate them or alienate me from the people that do? NO, of course not! In fact, I have never felt more welcome in homes and families that I visit than on holidays.
So what is this? Is it really about making sure that people don't feel offended or unwelcome? Or is it one more step in the subtle secularization of America? I know what I think.... Merry Christmas everyone.
posted by Medpilot at 5:36 PM
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