Apparently President Bush is on the wrong side of the “War on Christmas.” He sent out 1.4 million cards wishing the recipients a happy “holiday season.” Those are fighting words to religious conservatives who believe there is an effort under way to purge "Christ" from Christmas.
Bush "claims to be a born-again, evangelical Christian. But he sure doesn’t act like one," Joseph Farah, editor of the conservative Web site WorldNetDaily.com, told the Washington Post. "I threw out my White House card as soon as I got it."
Somehow, I don’ think that Christ is in any danger of being purged in this country, no matter what kind of card the president sends out or what phrase Target uses in its advertisements. To suggest that such minor details pose a serious threat doesn’t give the religion much credit.
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Bet Bush had no idea his allies were such a vindictive lot! Should’a studied more in his world history class.
Only Christians can destroy Christianity, no outside force could end the believe in God and Of Jesus Christ.It is the faith that is required to be a Christian, not a Christmas tree, not a cross or even a Bible. The faith and the following is what makes you a Christian, nothing that can be touched or seen can make you so. Christians remember that always.
Jed..I didn’t throw out my card… of course I didn’t get one either..
Dog…Amen to that! Are we as Christians doing such a lousy job sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ that we need help from Target and Wal-Mart and GW Bush? Unfortunately, I think we are.. but I think God will get along fine with or without them.
How ironic that some self-appointed saint named JOSEPH is having a tantrum because he wants things his way. What a jerk.
BTW, I didn’t get my card from GW and Laura yet. Did you get yours ED? What about you Galahad?
I didn’t get one either..but am simply aghast at the intolerance of some people. Don’t these supposed “tolerant Christians” realize that there are other ways to celebrate this season? Channuka comes to mind immediately, and the Pres of the US is Pres of the entire country, not just the ‘Christian extreme right”
One can put on display fixed monuments to Christ, like creches, crucifixes, tablets with the 10 commandments, Christmas trees, and all the rest. Or, one can put on display living monuments to the living Christ, like volunteering at the Lord’s Diner, or volunteering to teach ESL at Interfaith Ministries, or by dropping a check in the mail to the Red Cross. I believe I know which monuments Jesus would prefer to see.
Just another example of how the administration is a step off the pulse of America.
How could they not know about O’Reilly’s war on christmas spiel?
Christmas is a part of American culture. So stop licking your chops, It’s not “for sale.”
It is ironic that evangelicals lined up to fill the White House with non-Christians. Bush has now been beguiled by those non-Christians as well.Those non-Christians will not even allow Bush to put Christmas on a Christmas card.
Destroying American culture seems to be “Job 1″ on those non-Christians shopping list.
Pity he can’t see it.
Tracy, I like Christmas cards, Christmas trees, and everything else to do with Christmas.
As an American, that’s a serious part of my culture.
I don’t care what “other” cultures do, as long as they don’t mess with Texas, or mess with my America’s Christmas.
I don’t tell “other” cultures what they should do, just what not to do, when it involved me.
Oh, By the way….
Merry Christmas Tracy, and the rest of you Americans, along with my wish for the best of tidings….
I hope Santa will bring you whatever you wish…….
T’was the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a…..
Ed
Thanks Ed, Merry Holidays, or Happy Christmas back at you.Good post Brian, my sentiments exactly, and a chance to say it again:AS CHRISTIANS, LOVING TOLERANCE SHOULD BE OUR CODE OF ETHICS.
TRACY…If I may expand on that just a bit… LOVING TOLERANCE OF MANKIND. We must never become tolerant of SIN. Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Sam,Yeah, but the problem is, when you beat the sin over the head with a baseball bat, it’s damn hard for the sinner to stay out of the way!
I am not a Bush fan at all so this isn’t in defense of him. But I guess I don’t see what the big deal is and I am a Christian. Holidays = Holi(holy) day. So doesn’t saying Happy Holidays cover every holy day we are celebrating this time of year including Christmas? Hannakah is just as much a holy day as Christmas and just because it isn’t your religion doesn’t mean it should be excluded this time of year. What is wrong with saying a phrase that can include all religions, especially since this country is so diverse anyways? I just don’t get why the big contraversy over this. Saying Happy Holidays in no way offends me or makes me feel that someone is trying to get rid of Christmas.
Joseph Farah is a Red Foreman epithet
Jed..That’s why you only beat up yourself! It’s not our job to beat up anyone else… God will handle that rather well I think…
CW…
I don’t understand it either. Then again, the extreme ‘right’ has demonstrated an incredible lack of tolerance for anything they do not preach. Look at locally, Southwind as morality monitor going to court; Terry Fox political activism; the BoE and their religious criticism of evolution, etc.
The supposedly “very devout” Christian extremists appear to have little or no tolerance for anything slightly different than their extremely narrow views. That is scary..isn’t that how the Crusades started? People claiming that their God was the only one, and anyone that didn’t believe the same way was to be converted by force or killed?
CW, the fundies are feeling empowered and this is all an attempt to shove their beliefs down our throats.”Do it our way or we’ll hold our breath and have a little hissy-fit!” I say screw the radicals.
And to my fellow bloggers on BOTH sides I say best wishes to you and yours for the Christmas season and the new year. Happy Holidays; Merry Christmas…whatever floats yer boat.
Sam,Tell that to those “good christians” who beat several of my friends to death simply for being gay.As far as beating up oneself, I’ve found that simply acknowledging the sin for what it is, and resolving to do better next time is sufficient.
Jed..Like I said before.. the scary thing is those people believe that they are right. I make no excuses for them.. anyone with any sense know they were wrong!
Acknowleging sin for what it is and trying to do better is good. Apostle Paul described it as “beating your body into submission”, but truly it is a mental battle with your own free will. If I mess up, then it is an opportunity to ponder why I need my God’s strength and forgiveness so much. Without it, I know I would be a very selfish and angry person like I used to be.
These are what the right-wing operatives call “extra-chromosone Christrians.”
Their term, not mine.
Too bad they have to live up to it . . .
CW–excellent post.
The hard right need something to inveigh against. Sometimes it’s the “desecration of the American flag,” sometimes it’s “in God we trust” on the currency or “under God” in the Pledge of Allegience.
It’s whatever gets the base feeling like “victims” so they can justify victimizing others.
As long as there is a far right, the neocons who believe life started with Adams rib, and the far left, who believe life is an unnecessary burdon on the planet, we will have morons arguing whose belief is better.
Sam,Somebody once said that science is not the replacing of a theory that’s wrong with one that’s right, it’s the continual replacing of a theory that’s wrong with one that’s more subtly wrong. Maybe religion needs some of that too. Anyone who claims to know the mind of god is not only wrong, but a walking disaster area, and we’ve suffered way too many of those! What’s needed is an admission by all religions that god, in whatever form, is pretty much beyond our mortal comprehension. Then, when some joker claims he’s right and everybody else is wrong, we’ll all know better!
To everyone(especially Xtians):HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!
Notice how quick the religious right wing is to turn on Bush?
I like that!
I should probably let this thread die, but have you the heard the latest?: There’s a campaign to send Christmas cards to the ACLU! I’m not kidding.
I got serious laugh out of that one, folks. Just how out of touch with reality can these people be? Granted, I recoil in horror every time I see in a small, flat envelope in my mailbox, but that’s just me. :)
Merry Christmas, Hannukah or whatever, folks!
“Joseph Farah is a Red Foreman epithet”
My God: I just had an epiphiny! Not really . . . must have been last nights chili.