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Here's an item likely to fuel fresh skirmishes in the war of words over the War on Christmas: The library at UNC-Chapel Hill has ceased displaying Christmas trees in its lobby.
I can imagine this might spark a letter to the editor or two. Let 'em flow, let 'em flow, let 'em flow.
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Seems as though the Gov. of Washington stirred up a controversy when she allowed an atheiest group to place a sign mocking religion next to the Nativity in the state Capitol.
Here is the latest:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008470773_webatheist05m.html
Posted on December 5, 2008 3:24 PM
The war on Christmas…
In a free land purchased with the blood of heroes, martyrs and ordinary hardworking self sacrificing people, we sell their gifts for a mess of pottage, buy our comforts with our children’s futures and say it is for the betterment of all.
Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the wicked. They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course. I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes. Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.
This is Christmas, one of the few true Holidays that remind man to serve man, that it is better to give than to receive, now, with the evergreen as an albeit pagan symbol, we will further bury it and say to ourselves all is well we are a better people without it. We will shed ourselves of outdated and ignorant tradition for the wisdom and knowledge of man.
In this Christmas season I will stand and say, yes I am a Christian, I am an American and most important, I am a Child of God and as for me and mine, we shall serve the Lord by serving our fellow man. The war on Christmas began in heaven and came to this earth millennia ago, it has changed, it has evolved, but it has never been lost.
Give gifts of service, love, compassion, visit the nursing homes, the urban ministries, give all you can to the children of our next generation that they may know the true meaning of the gift that Christmas represents, the gift of Faith, Hope and Charity.
'Choose ye this day whom ye shall serve, but for me and my House, we shall serve the Lord.…
Posted on December 6, 2008 10:17 AM