Dammit It Stop It...

 I don't know why people get all upset this time of year. I really do not.  This is a time of peace on earth, good will toward men. 

But we get all upset. 

We think there is some sort of a " War of Christmas."

I wrote yesterday, this morning about this, and to be honest, it sounded so much like what Mitch Keeler posted on his blog yesterday, well, I went ahead and "borrowed" from his blog. ( If you are not reading Mitch's blog, you need to do so.....)

"Another variation on the same thing is the outcry over the use of X-mas instead of Christmas, again trying to say that people are quite literally trying to remove "Christ" from the celebration.  This could not be further from the truth and ignores the history surrounding the X.  For starters, the letter is not an X at all, but the Greek letter chi (C/c), which is the first letter of the Greek work Χριστός which in English is "Christ." The abbreviation has been used from at earliest possibly 1551.  The X has been used in abbreviation of Christ's name (specifically as part of the Chi Rho - ⳩) possibly as early as 312.  "Xian" and "Xtian" have even been used to abbreviate Christian.  Far from a removal of Christ, the usage is part of a long tradition of remembrance.

We even get into debates over what decorations are displayed, spreading lies about particular administrations and their "removal" of the Nativity scene.  In case you doubted, the White House Creche has been displayed in the East Room every year since 1967, including during the Obama administration.

"Those are good reason.  Christmas is not only getting too commercial, it's getting too dangerous."

Linus Van Pelt

In truth, biggest reason why there is no "War on Christmas" is the very thing that most endangers our religious observance and most attempts to remove Christ from the holiday - Christmas is too big of a money maker to be ignored, downplayed, or warred against. Too many business and people depend on the spending on the secular and religious observances of Christmas to make ends meet.  It's one of the reasons given for the name Black Friday; Christmas shopping after Thanksgiving would bring companies into the black (myth it may be)."

https://www.mitchellany.com/2018/12/happy-holidays-and-merry-x-mas.html 

Come on man. 

Do you people NOT understand what you got here in America? 

There are 4,000 different Christian denominations in America alone. 

I have been to nations where there is no "Freedom of Religion." 

I was asked if I had a Bible with me when I entered the People's Republic of China. 

Come on, there is no one asked anything about their religious literature coming into the USA. 

No one is being dragged into the streets and shot for proclaiming Jesus. 

No one is fired from their government job because they are Christian. 

The public schools allow Christian groups to meet and pray, often with the groups being lead by faculty.

Christmas is a holiday for everyone in this nation. More people are off, stores closed, than any other holiday. 

War on Christmas? 

Really? 

I think some of you are just looking for something to complain about. 

You really want to be unhappy about something, worry about our homeless veterans. Kids who don't have enough to eat. 

I seriously wonder why some of you are so unhappy.