> MERRY CHRISTMAS......
>
>
> *Twas the month before Christmas*
> *When all through our land,*
> *Not a Christian was praying*
> *Nor taking a stand.*
> *See the PC Police had taken away,*
> *The reason for Christmas - no one could say.*
> *The children were told by their schools not to sing,*
> *About Shepherds and Wise Men and Angels and things.*
> *It might hurt people's feelings, the teachers would say*
> * December 25th is just a "Holiday".*
>
> *Yet the shoppers were ready with cash, checks and credit*
> *Pushing folks down to the floor just to get it!*
> *CDs from Madonna, an X BOX, an I-pod*
> *Something was changing, something quite odd! *
> *Retailers promoted Ramadan and Kwanzaa*
> *In hopes to sell books by Franken & Fonda.*
> *As Targets were hanging their trees upside down*
> *At Lowe's the word Christmas - was no where to be found.*
> *At K-Mart and Staples and Penny's and Sears*
> *You won't hear the word Christmas; it won't touch your ears.*
>
> *Inclusive, sensitive, Di-ver-is-ty*
> *Are words that were used to intimidate me.*
> *Now Daschle, Now Darden, Now Sharpton, Wolf Blitzen*
> *On Boxer, on Rather, on Kerry, on Clinton!*
> *At the top of the Senate, there arose such a clatter*
> *To eliminate Jesus, in all public matter.*
> *And we spoke not a word, as they took away our faith*
> * Forbidden to speak of salvation and grace*
>
> *The true Gift of Christmas was exchanged and discarded*
> *The reason for the season, stopped before it started.*
> *So as you celebrate "Winter Break" under your "Dream Tree"*
> *Sipping your Starbucks, listen to me.*
> *Choose your words carefully, choose what you say*
>
> *Shout MERRY CHRISTMAS ,
> Not Happy Holiday!*
2007-12-05 08:36:14 · 19 answers · asked by Sarah 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It really bothers me when they take stuff like the Pledge of Allegence out of schools just because it mentions God in it. Just because some stupid people didn't like it they got rid of it. Those people didn't have to say it. They could've just sat quietly! You can't pray anymore in school either all because of people not believing in God. Well they don't have to pray! They should just let others do what they want and worry about them selves.
2007-12-05 10:14:22 · update #1
Amen, That is a good poem, and it saddens me that all the stores do this, and they want to sell to us, I say we boycott them when they don't say Merry Christmas, or they take the meaning out of it, Turn it around on them, because The Whole reason for the holiday is Jesus, not shopping thier stores.
2007-12-05 08:48:10 · answer #1 · answered by Lynn C 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Nothing is preventing you from saying "Merry Christmas" it's just that public places (like Sears, etc.) are using "Happy Holidays" since there ARE people who have different religions (le gasp) and if they say "Merry Christmas" and nothing else, it would probably make them shop somewhere else. I do not recall anyone promoting Kwanzaa in commercial corporations however. And December 25 IS just a holiday, it's a holiday to you, and to everyone. Not everyone celebrates Christmas, love. And if you wish to shout "Merry Christmas" then fine by me and the government, just don't push it on others. As for schools, people say "Merry Christmas" there, have Christmas parties, etc. I even participate in them (I'm atheist) hell...it's free food and drink, right? As for taking your God out of everything, it's the right choice, best to be secular. How would you like it if the Hindu's rose up and started pushing THEIR beliefs, THEIR laws, as OUR laws? Would you like it? Or would you take it like the rest of America is? I wonder....so stop your whining and enjoy the holidays...that's right, I said "holidays"
2007-12-05 16:51:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Say Merry Christmas all you like. Children can talk, sing, and otherwise discuss "Christmas" in schools. It is a violation of the guidelines to post stuff you got in an e-mail.
BIG TIME EDIT
Dearie, ALL public school children in the state of Indiana are in fact FORCED to say the Pledge and observe 30 seconds of silence every morning. Many other states have similar laws.
Stop whining and believing the myth that "god" has been taken out of schools. You clearly have no clue what you are even upset about.
Please, tell me that my students do not say the Pledge every morning or that they can't pray!
2007-12-05 16:44:08 · answer #3 · answered by atheist 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I'm 100 percent with you. I think they NEED to have Merry Christmas on everything. If anyone gets offended by it then oh well that's there problem to deal with not ours who does believe.
2007-12-06 14:44:39 · answer #4 · answered by Hannahs Pregnant!!!! 9 weeks 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Atheists are terrified that if their kids sit too close to a Christian kid at school, and hear him or her praying, or singing, or praising God, that their precious progeny might catch some sort of horrible virus, and become rabid evangelists....
They have to protect their tender little ones from the horrible ravages of Jesus Christ...they just MIGHT learn to love one another...
EEEEEEEK!!
2007-12-05 22:08:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Satan came to Christ in the desert trying to make Him kneel promising the world and such. He didn't fall. He raised.
Satan came to Christians in the big cities trying to make them kneel, promising the world and such. What are they doing?
In order to keep they're jobs, they're bank owned houses and they're image, they shut up and are about to sign a peace treaty: kneel in exchange for the world. Yet they were told: "love not the world" (1 John 2:15)
2007-12-05 16:53:07 · answer #6 · answered by Even Haazer 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Christmas was a holiday long before it became Christian. It's merely returning to its roots.
2007-12-05 16:41:09 · answer #7 · answered by CRtwenty 5 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Happy Holiday.
2007-12-05 16:41:28 · answer #8 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Nobody is preventing you from saying "Merry Christmas"
Instead, businesses have decided to use the more inclusive "Happy Holidays" in an effort not to ostracize customers.
Stop reading the tabloids.
Nobody is "trying to take you faith away". Read the first amendment. You're welcome to your beliefs, however, you just can't legislate them. Tell me that you'd be happy if US currency said "In Allah we Trust"...? Didn't think so..
You're an egregious hypocrite.
Get.
A.
Clue.
2007-12-05 16:41:01 · answer #9 · answered by mam2121 4 · 6⤊ 4⤋
Who cares if people don't say Merry Christmas?
2007-12-05 16:41:13 · answer #10 · answered by Ode to the Damned® ÆA NR 6 · 3⤊ 4⤋