The holiday season is upon us, and sometimes it really sucks. Now, don’t get the wrong idea; I love Thanksgiving and Christmas. I enjoy spending time and sharing a great meal with family and friends on Thanksgiving, and I really enjoy decorating the house (inside and out) for Christmas. These holidays are a lot of fun and a great time to reconnect with loved ones. However, despite all this, it is also a time that can stretch your toleration.
Anybody else notice that, according to merchants, Halloween and Thanksgiving don’t exist anymore? I saw Christmas decorations and merchandise start to go up right around the second week in October in the malls this year. In fact, I’ve already been bombarded by Christmas imagery for over a month and a half, and I am already ignoring it.
I can remember when retail stores did not put out their Christmas stuff until right after Thanksgiving; in fact most stores had their Christmas stuff up on the Friday after Thanksgiving. It makes sense to me to do it this way. You allow people to fully enjoy Thanksgiving without having to struggle to find it beneath all of the Christmas hoopla. Now, however, because retailers start their Christmas campaigns in October, the Christmas season is almost the same as the presidential election season: by the time it finally arrives, you’re just glad to have it end!

Oh, and while we’re at it, can we all just agree that the period from the end of November to the 25th of December is the Christmas Season? Not the “Holiday Season,” not the “Winter Solstice,” and certainly not “Kwanza.” For at least the last couple hundred years, it has been the Christmas Season and the world as we know it got along fine. No one seemed to be offended, and if they were, they had the good sense to keep it to themselves. There were no court cases attempting to toss the baby Jesus out of the manger and into the street because three or four non-Christians didn’t like him. In times of old, expressing your religious beliefs on public property was not considered the same thing as establishing s state religion. Nowadays, all of a sudden, putting up a Nativity scene on public property is equated with the forced acceptance of Christianity by non-Christian people. Now, just how the heck did that happen?
I guess the public school system felt left out, because now they are starting to go overboard as well. School children in several places are no longer allowed to sing Christmas carols, lest the word “God” be spoken. This, of course, is done to promote tolerance of other religions (I guess it is okay to be intolerant of Christianity). Have you taken a look at the Christmas card you child has brought home from school lately? It probably didn’t even have the word “Christmas” on it, as that might offend someone, somewhere. Instead, your child probably made a “Winter Solstice” card, or a “Holiday” card. These education types have managed to turn one of the most significant celebrations of the year into a drab, meaningless, generic government holiday where the only thing people care about is getting the day off.
This holiday season, we need to take Christmas back from the ignorant, politically correct intellectuals who have hijacked it. If you are going to send out cards this year, make sure that they are Christmas cards. They don’t have to have a Nativity scene on the front, but it wouldn’t hurt. If you put decorations on the outside of your home, make sure the word “Christmas” is prominent, or that a Nativity scene is featured. Tell everyone you see “Merry Christmas!” If your child is in a school choir or band, and they are giving a concert, if they are not playing any of the traditional Christmas carols, consider not allowing your child to participate, and let the school know why. Remember, silence is almost always considered to be approval. Most of all, celebrate Christmas the way you always have. Don’t succumb to the pressure of these ignorant jerks to dilute the meaning of the season to match their screwed up vision of a non-offensive, politically correct, meaningless day off of work. Your kids will thank you.

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