| Tuesday, December 20, 2005 |
| Offending Others With Christmas |
During my undergraduate work I was having a conversation with a certain prof and began to express my concern with political correctness to which he quickly retorted, "Look, it is a small price to pay to get our message across,” I think not.
This year has been the year of the "Happy Holidays" battle. There are some stores and corporations who refuse to use the term "Christmas" in anything. There are "holiday trees", "holiday songs", "holiday breaks", and, of course, "happy holidays". I know that it is impolite to point fingers (a rule made up by guilty parties, no doubt) but I think that it is necessary. This is the left's attempt to remove anything that smacks of absolute truths, God, or "closed mindedness". The best case that in recent history is the capitol's "Holiday Tree" that was, this year, changed back to the Christmas tree.
To the best of my knowledge, no other holiday uses pine trees and the school systems do not plan their "Winter Breaks" around Hanukah. Christmas is celebrated by better than 85% of Americans, why does fifteen percent of the population attempt to dictate to the rest of us what will be done regarding our holiday? If they don't believe in Jesus and want to celebrate His birth, that is too bad and I pray for their conversion but do not tell me what to call our holiday.
The reality of political correctness is that it simply attempts to change the titles of things in order to make them seem better. They wish they could actually make the thing what they want but since they cannot they settle with re-titling it every few years. For instance, children with down-syndrome used to be called "retarded", then it was "mentally handicapped", then that was found to be too offensive so it was changed to "mentally challenged". Let me let you in on a little secret- they all meant the same thing.
The reason they are offended is because they cannot handle truth. They hate it that some people have dark skin and some have white, they hate it that their are fat people and skinny people, that some are rich and some are poor, that some believe in nothing and that most believe in God, they hate truth. If these people could they would make us all the same so no one would be offended by whatever ridiculous thing they find to cry about next. The irony of all this is that these same people claim to love "diversity". Yeah, sure you do. At least I can admit there are differences.
Change all the language you want but it does not change what the thing is- the essence of it. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Christ- say "Happy Holidays" all you want while "Silent Night" plays in the background and your pine tree twinkles with lights. God forbid the ACLU ever gets educated and learns that the term "holiday" means "holy day" then it would be atheists only who this season "offends"- everyone else gets Christmas, Hanukah, and Quansa why can't the atheist have something? |
posted by D.M. @ 8:31 AM  |
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Hey man, I like your thoughts. The line about Holidays and holy days is pretty funny!
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We have the same "nonsense" in Canada...
I find now when one deliberately says Merry CHRISTmas, folk here are pleased and respond...maybe getting sick of the fence sitters
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Hey man, I like your thoughts. The line about Holidays and holy days is pretty funny!