The Reason For The Season
The New York Times recently quoted the White House social secretary, Desirée Rogers, as stating that this last summer the “the Obamas were planning a “non-religious Christmas” for the White House.”
WHAT?
That’s certainly worth a maximum-strength Shovel Award for our current Administration.
You can’t celebrate “Christmas” as “non-religious.”
It’s religious by its nature. If you don’t want to celebrate this religious holiday, fine. But don’t try to dress up that pig of an idea, a “non-religious Christmas,” and present it as something other than what it is: a badly warped and objectionable distortion of a Christian holiday.
Yes, there are other secular (and pagan) festivals that preceeded Christmas on this same date. Whoopee. That’s also true of the Fourth of July, and we don’t see Americans quibbling about how we need to celebrate events that happened prior to 1776 on that holiday, now do we?
To squeeze, subvert, redefine and otherwise mangle Christmas into being something other than what it is–the celebration of Christ’s birth, one of the most revered sacred holidays for Christians–asks all Christians to submit to a fatuous lie.
No, thank you.
If the current White House, which represents a Christian nation (what an unpopular thought, no? And how daring to state it!) doesn’t want to celebrate Christ’s birth, they need to call a spade a spade, say they aren’t celebrating Christmas, and go find themselves another holiday to promote.
This one’s taken.
Just sayin’.
Tags: Christian holidays, Christmas, Obama Administration, White House
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December 13, 2009 4:09 pm
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By Dan, December 22, 2009 @ 3:59 pm
Being agnostic you might think I wouldn’t agree with this – but for the most part I do. Why not choose to celebrate Christmas, since the Obama’s are ‘Christian’, and then if they choose to pay homage to other religions or non-religions, then do so, but seperately.
However, If the Obamas were something other than Christian, I could see how they would want to “celebrate the holidays” as a non-christian. Or maybe pay homage to Christmas and spend time his family, count his blessings etc. – which is what I do – But please, call a spade a spade; It is CHRISTMAS!
By Clare, December 22, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
Exactly! It’s a Christian holiday, so either have a religious Christmas, or a secular holiday, but call a spade a spade!