Merry Christmas (yeah, that's right ... I said it)
by Steve Mastro
Well, its that time of year again. The time of year where secular “progressives” start whining and screaming about Christmas, and symbols of religion and tradition. I more than understand the queasiness experienced by atheists and agnostics when observing a manger scene, or the crucifix, but what I don’t understand is the need to sour the party by endeavoring to quash any mention of religion or God in our country. Its like kicking over a nice sandcastle just because you don’t want the builder to enjoy it.
All the tired arguments aside, while not allowing the government to establish or endorse a particular religion, the founding fathers had in mind inclusion, not exclusion, and freedom from the government, not court-mandated-hammers.
Want a Christmas tree? Fine, just don’t ban my menorah. Now what read about in the news is banning of the Declaration of Independence, banning of Christmas trees, banning of certain types of dress, all restrictions of our freedom to express ourselves.
So at the risk of being flip, lets tell America LIGHTEN UP. Its OK to be Christian and like Christmas and not necessarily be a red-state-FoxNews-Bushie, its OK to utter the word “God” without being drug off to jail by the ACLU, and its OK to say:
Merry Christmas.
Yeah, I said it, so there.