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     CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS, CHRISTMAS, AND CHRISTMAS

Well it's that time of year again. The most wonderful time of the year. Christmas trees decorated with lights, Santa Clause bringing joy to kids everywhere, toasty fires in the fireplace while drinking a glass of eggnog, and warm times with friends and family. It is has also become that time of the year when my brain swells up and brain matter begins to squeeze out of my ears! It's this politically correct, "Christmas" versus "Holiday" , who is offended by nonsense, that I can't take anymore! Merry PC Christmas, oops, I mean Holiday.

This whole PC thing is absolutely ridiculous. I mean take this whole thing where teachers are now using purple instead of red to correct papers. It use to be when a kid would get an answer wrong they would get a red X. Hell it's like that in the real world too. Now, as to not be negative, they use purple. Well dummies guess what? Soon kids will associate purple with negative! Good one genius'! PC is BS. It's just that simple. Now this is a topic for another time but when you treat kids like babies they will grow up to be babies. They need to be offended once in awhile and they need to be disappointed. After all life is nothing more then a series of disappointments with good things mixed in. Now let's take the most peaceful, joyous holiday and try to mess with that! That makes a lot of sense. I for one am mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore!

This message is too all the Nimrods who are offended by Christians and non-Christians who celebrate Christmas and who are trying to screw with our traditions, our beliefs, and everything that makes Christmas, Christmas! There is so much crap to cover that I will take it step by step. Let's start with the big one. The birth of Christ. I am not offended if you don't believe in Christ or his birth. That is your right but what I am offended by are those who say I can't even say his name. You offend me! Sorry to break the news to you but Christmas is about the birth of Christ and by the way what is so offensive about the birth of a baby anyways? In many towns these moronic morons are complaining because of manger scenes on the town green. Seriously? If the baby in that manger was the devil then I would join you but the baby symbolizes something great whether you believe or not. It's just like Santa Clause. Children believe in him, he gives them joy, faith, hope, and gives them a little magic. For those who don't believe, well, we just don't believe. I'm not offended. Offended by what? That this jolly bowl of blubber eats all my cookies?

Christmas is about good things, warm things, happy times, faith, believing, caring, loving, peace on Earth, good will towards men and women, the celebration of an innocent baby, and sure presents and lots of good food oh and some days off from work as well. Where in all of that is there anything bad or offensive? The only thing I could think of us is stuffing our faces with twenty pounds of cookies and seven gallons of eggnog! I hear a lot of people bitch about commercialism but really that is just a part of it and I really don't see anything wrong with it as long as in the end you don't forget the meaning of Christmas. Commercialism of Christmas helps many of us keep our jobs. It helps the economy and gives some companies a chance to go another year without going into the red. Christmas has taken on more than just the birth of Christ and I really don't think Jesus is in Heaven going " My, my I am so offended. Look at them have a good time singing about a talking snowman and decorating a pine tree." It's all part of it and it's fine. In the end I believe we all still know and celebrate the true meaning. Redemption being a major part of it.

The bottom line is if you don't believe in God or Christ that's your choice. In America men died to that you could make that choice. I respect that. I don't have to agree but I am certainly not offended but you need to realize that you have made an unpopular choice therefore you are in the minority. Us 80% + who do believe are the majority and in a democracy majority wins. So let us have our Christmas and if you don't like it tough. If the country was 80%+ non believers then you would be in the majority and we would have to live with out the nativity on the town green. The Christians and Jews have lived comfortably together for decades accepting each others holidays and never getting offended. We get along perfectly fine. We can say Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to each other without offending the other. That brings me to the stores and advertisers who makes up a good portion of the PC morons in this country.

So to you morons I say this. You are the one's starting trouble and making things worse. Why you may ask? I'll tell you why because you the ones backing down to the 5% who is offended. Never mind appealing to the 85% Christians and the 10% non-Christians who are not offended by Christmas. A small number of dorks bitch and moan and you change everything. "Holiday" tree. "Winter decorations" give me a break. Maybe us 95% of the people who are not offended by "Christmas" should just stop going to your PC store! It drives me nuts when I see the Sunday adds and there is no mention of Christmas even though this is the "Christmas" season. The celebration of Christmas lasts the whole month just like there is twelve days of Hanukkah. It is not a "Holiday" tree it's a "Christmas" tree! It is not a candle rack it's a Menorah.

How about those who say no religion in politics because it is against the constitution. Well I happen to know history and I have a good memory so let me clear it up for. It was not freedom from religion, it is freedom of religion. We all have the right, thanks to our forefathers who invented this country, to choose our religion and belief what we want to believe without the government or a monarchy telling us what and how we should believe or live. It does not mean that the government is to be void of God. It was created on the belief of God and his ways. Free will was God's gift to us and Free will is what this country is based on. Freedom. Freedom comes from God and the forefathers wrote the constitution based on that. If you don't believe in God you are in the minority and you need to accept that and live with it. This is a democracy. Look it up. As Americans we can live with each other and accept each other but let's not run over each other with a steamroller. Let Christmas be what it is "Christmas" and stop trying to take God out of Washington when he is what this country was built on and besides the ten commandments are just simple and important rules we would live by even if they were not from God. What's offensive? Perhaps many organized religions get out of hand, I understand that, but the core of God and Christ is about good things. Nothing offensive there.

Now there are some other things that really fry my ass. Red and Green. For those dorks who think those colors are offensive and need to be changed all I can say is grow the ----up! I mean really? Really? Those are just two colors that look great together and happen to be the colors of winter. Red berries, green holy leaves. They are the only frickin' colors you see in winter besides gray and white! Therefore in the celebration of Christmas it took on those colors. It is no way offensive nor is it a specific color of God or the birth of Christ. Side note all colors belong to God.

How about the upside down tree. What the hell is that? Is it just a thing or is it a message? Whatever it is, it's stupid! It looks awful. Do trees grow upside down? Did I miss something? I have nothing else to say on that. I'm speechless. Really.

Now let us talk about the "Christmas Tree." Just to let those offended people know it's not a symbol of the birth of Christ or God. It's a TREE! A lot of the celebration of Christmas and those things associated with it were taken from Pagan symbols celebrating winter. Christmas was not always in December but when it did move to a winter month somewhere along the lines people begin taken pagan rituals and mixing them in. I don't see nothing wrong with that! So to be offended by a beautiful blue spruce or a balsam decorated with multi colored lights, ornaments, garland, tinsel, and pure happiness is only makes you look like a complete and total IDIOT! Get over it. There is nothing offensive here. Hey if you want to have a tree decorated because you think it looks nice go ahead. I won't be offended. It is not a symbol of the birth of Christ. As a matter of fact because it is not symbol of the birth of Christ many Jewish families have added it to their celebration. There is nothing wrong with it. It's pretty, warm, and makes a room look so much better. So go ahead get one. You having nothing to fear. Be happy and stop bitching.

Now to the schools. You really piss me off. We have gone from "Christmas Pageant" to "Winter Festival". Some schools have eliminated the Christmas tree, the colors red and green, and all songs that mention Christ or the word Christmas. Some have gone as far as changing the words. Grow up! First of all in the United States the majority of schools are made up of Christians. If you happen to be a school made up of Jews or other then have the "Winter festival" You are the majority there and your belief is king but for the mostly Christians school the only person who will be offended b y a "Christmas" show is that 1 moron in the audience who doesn't believe in God and has no tolerance for those who do. Which is the 99% in that school. So why are you bending over for that one guy? If you are offended don't go you stupid dummy! Don't tell me I have to change it for you. Stop prancing all over my beliefs. Leave Christmas alone. If you happen to have a school made up equally of Jews and Christians then combine each others festivals. Why can't we learn from one another and celebrate each other? Let's not just simply eliminate.

Bottom line there is nothing offensive about Christmas. It is only a very small number of people who have to make trouble. They go on the news and bitch and then try to stop what we believe and celebrate. It's the dummy stores who back down and cater to them which is shocking to me. If I was in business and had my own store I would cater to the group who will make me the most money. Call me crazy but if I have 5% who hates Christmas and 95% who either celebrates it and tolerates it then I am going to appeal to that 95%. Not the 5%.

If you believe or don't believe in Christ there still is nothing offensive about him. That's what I really don't get. He was about peace, love, forgiveness, redemption, and love. Not hate, intolerance, or evil. The birth of baby Jesus also was non-offensive. For Christians it was the birth of Christ and the birth of everything we believe today. For non-believers it's a story about a young woman who could not get into the inn because it was full so she had a baby out in the middle of a desert! It's so simple. All the hate in world over our different religious beliefs is just a colossal waste of time. In the end we will all learn the same truth whatever it may be. One of us will be right. Which one? Well that's what faith is. Instead let's just live a good life and enjoy the time we do have here. Let's stop the hate and accept each other.

Merry Christmas is the sweetest and kindest greeting you can give. It is that of warmth and kindness. Merry to be happy to the fullest extend. And Christmas to love one another, peace on earth, good will towards men and women, harmony, forgiveness, joy, celebration. It's just that simple. Happy Holidays once meant Happy "Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanza, New Years" but now it has become a defiant greeting against "Merry Christmas" when it doesn't need to be. There is nothing offensive in the greeting of Merry Christmas and there shouldn't be.

So what we do? Do we back down to that 5% who are offended? Hell no! Sure it has become difficult to say Happy Holidays because of the vengeful meaning it has taken on. I use to say it because it was for all of the Holidays but now I must fight back. So I say "Merry Christmas." I bitch when I go to stores and I see "Holiday Tree" or "Festival Lights." I throw things at my TV when I see some a-hole bitch that someone as a nativity set displayed, and I write this for all to see. I live in the North East of the United States and I am near New York City and I have seen Rabbis in the city fighting back as well. I have seen them laugh off the "Holiday Tree" and call it a "Christmas Tree" and they get just as offended as Christians because they can't understand what the hell is so offensive about Christmas? The Jews don't believe Christ was the son of God and that is their right. I am not offended.

Politically correct is an offensive joke. It is a failure. It is meaningless. The word "retard" comes from "mental retardation" which "retard" or "retarded" has become highly offensive. So we say "mentally challenged." When I was a child "retarded" was the term. It was PC that made it offensive. Handicapped is a great example of one that has backfired. It went from handicapped to handicapable. But handicapable has now become offensive so we have gone back to handicapped which if this PC crap doesn't end will be offensive in the future and then be called handicapable which will then go back and you the know the ever loving rest! PC is killing us and it must stop! Let's start with this Christmas season my fellow humans.

The truth is I am not offended by those who don't believe in God, the birth of Christ, or Jesus being the son of God. There is nothing for me to be offended about. It's all about faith. I can't prove that everything in the bible is true. I can't prove Christ was even here or that God exists. I just have faith. Some believe Ghosts are real others do not. Some believe Aliens live and others do not. Just because you haven’t seen it doesn't mean it's not true. You just have faith it is. Sometimes those things that we don't believe in come true. Let's take Hogzilla. A few years ago in the southwestern parts of the United States people were claiming to see this mythical pig that was bigger than an elephant. Many laughed at them. Many denied it. Then one day, not long ago, a giant wild pig about the size of an elephant was caught and it was proven to the world that Hogzilla was indeed real. It is no longer a myth.

My family, my friends, my co-workers all live in harmony together. We may have our differences at times but at the end of the day we are on the same blue ball circling a giant ball of gas. We should be tolerant of each other. When it comes to Christmas and you are in the minority I remind you this is a democracy and in a democracy majority rules. That's how it is. When we vote the one with most wins and don't give me that whole George Bush didn't win garbage. I play by the truth and the truth is after countless recounts he won every time whether you like him or not. I won't tell you my political preference so I am not saying if I support or not. I just want to express the truth. It was an extremely close race and that's that. It's over. What my point is, the higher number wins and that is who rules. The one with the longer straw goes first. Until now those of us who celebrated Christmas did it without smooshing it in your face. We simply celebrated. It is wrong to do that but now we are pissed and we are fighting back so you get the pie in the face. It is my hope this battle ends and the PC Christmas thing becomes a thing of the past so that way I can set my tree up, drink my glass of eggnog, go to midnight mass, and say Merry Christmas without anyone being offended and having my brains shoot out of my ears. Just maybe that 5% will say Merry Christmas back because they too will realize that there is nothing to be offended about. So with that I say to 100% of the country and the world. Merry Christmas, Peace on Earth, and good will to each every one of you.

 

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