Killing of Christmas

I had just logged onto to the internet and as a fan of msn I have my home page set to it. As I usually do I was glancing through the msn home page when I happened to notice an article about Happy Holidays and Christmas. My curiosity got the best of me and as I was reading through the article which obviously the author, aka Journalist must have forgotten to put through spell-checker, seeing the author was so focused upon getting his or her point across that spelling didn’t matter at all. Now I’m not much of an English major myself and my grammar is more or less that of a fifth grader if even that, but I do know that there’s a tool out there called a spell checker, hello!

Anyways to make a long story short as I was reading through this article the very thoughts of Scrooge himself saying “Christmas Bah Humbug” danced in my ears like sugar plum fairies in the Nutcracker.

 

Apparently we’ve become a generation that has lost the meaning to the word Christmas. The mere mention of the word Christmas sends chills down our politically correct world. We’ve become a nation that caters to every other religion and race, while forgetting our very heritage.

 

You can argue it all you like, and debate it till the cows come home, whether you accept it or not. It’s just pure fact that North America especially Canada and the United States was founded on the Catholic religion. The Americans were as much British as us Canadians are, and the British were Catholics or Protestants who in the majority celebrated Christmas and wished people a Merry Christmas. We can go back as far as Charles Dickens a Christmas Carol, or the ever classic Miracle on 34th Street. There was very little if anything mentioned of Happy Holidays or Season Greetings, it was Merry Christmas through out the whole movie, as that was a slice of the old Americana which has been replaced by the political correct Americana which uses the word Happy Holidays or Season Greetings instead of the heritage word of Merry Christmas.

 

In this new world of ours gone is Merry Christmas, replaced by Happy Holidays and Season’s Greetings. The very mere mention of the word Merry Christmas sends bone chilling effects down our spines at the thought that we might have offended someone in the process by merely wishing them a Merry Christmas, instead of saying Happy Holidays like were suppose too.

 

Today there are a lot of parents out there that teach their child to forget about Christmas. As even the author of that article wrote he/she teaches his or her kids to say Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas. What’s even worse is many public education systems that are funded by tax-payers like myself, are teaching children to say Happy Holidays instead of saying Merry Christmas.

 

The word and the very meaning of Christmas is being distorted time and time again by radicals out there that want to build a political correct world and want to see Christmas come to an end. Replaced by some Multi-Cultural Holiday, we can call it Political Correct day. I can see it now in the not too distant future, will be celebrating Political Correct day on December 25th, you might laugh at that notion but we’re coming closer and closer to that day when we as a generation of human beings forget what Christmas stands for and what Christmas means.

 

Christmas isn’t just commercialism; it isn’t just a Catholic day of worship. It’s a day of hope, a day of peace, as Linus Van Pelt best put it in a Charle Brown Christmas when Linus quoted from the Gospel of Luke verses 8 through 14 from the King James Version.

 

Kudos to the American Family Association, for trying to preserve our Christmas heritage from those out there who seek to under mine it. It’s time retailers who benefit the most out of Christmas to put the emphasis back onto Christmas and proudly go out and say and wish Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. Not go around politically sugar coating it with Happy Holidays and Seasons Greetings.

 

It’s time we started to realize just how stupid it really is to not have a Christmas tree put up at an airport on the count that it’s political incorrect or might offend others, or even having the thought of calling a Christmas tree anything other then a Christmas tree is something to laugh at, but I’m not laughing and neither should you. It’s time we remembered our past heritage and what Christmas really means and stop ourselves from being all caught up on the hype of being all political correct and trying to kill off Christmas.