Christmas Under Attack ?!?!?

OK, alrighty then . . . Let’s get back into it full force, eh?

What is all this uproar over Christmas this year??? Is it the Red State religious theocracy flexing its collective muscle? Or is it the Anti-Religious Blues using the courts to impose the views of the few onto the lives of the many???

I’ve seen and heard some funky rationale lately. On Dori Monson’s mid-day radio show on KIRO this week, I heard a physician in Bellevue, WA exclaim he was intimidated by the Christmas tree at Bellevue City Hall, even though it was officially called a Giving Tree so as not to offend non-Christians. I’m sorry, but offended by a tree? His argument was that symbols are powerful, so powerful he equated the Christmas tree with the Nazi swastika. I wanted to call in to see if he felt the image of a Christmas tree had the same effect as a real tree. If so, this poor boob should be spending the time from Halloween to post New Year in the corner rocking and sucking his thumb!!!

Then we have the Right. All the talking heads from Fox’s O’Reilly (whom I love, but is NOT an Independent no matter what he says!!) and Sean Hannity to MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan are spouting how Christmas is under attack and we are in the dark days of Activism Judges and the godless Blues. On Pat’s show (filling in for Joe Scarborough), he had the temerity to exclaim if school children were offended by “Christian” Christmas song, they should just go home… Hello!! Aren’t they required to be there!!! So in essence aren’t they ‘forced’ to sing these songs???

Now while I think this is a load of crap, can you imagine a school requiring children to sing Hindu, wicca or Islamic celebratory songs? Oh, wait now… I seem to remember something about schools expressing empathy with Muslims during the post 9/11 by requiring them to read Islamic literature.

Ya know what folks??? Get over yourselves!!! All you’re doing is polarizing the populace. This IS a Christian nation whether we like it or not, but that Christianity does not preclude our children from learning nor experiencing other cultures. Xenophobia is NOT appealing nor enlightening.