That holy thing

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It happens every year at this time of the year. Some stupid elitist imposes his or her stupid value system on the rest of us, harassing us for celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior of all mankind, including the stupid ones – if they repent and accept Him as their personal Savior and God. That’s right – God. That’s the whole point of the issue about which we celebrate Christmas. If Jesus is not “that holy thing,” His blood cannot atone for our sins. He cannot save us.

Normally, it really doesn’t matter what stupid things they’re doing in Australia. I have enough grief over what’s going on in my own country. I try not to get heartburn over what they do Down Under or in Europe or anywhere else. But a stupidity virus that started in Australia has already infected us here. Gestapo officials controlling an Asheville, NC mall have also decided Santa’s famous words, “HO HO HO,” are demeaning to women. In fact, they’ve already fired one Santa for using the HO word instead the now favored “HA HA HA.” With “HA HA HA” in and “HO HO HO” out, would it be okay, you think, if the fat dude added “a couple of TRA LA LA’s”? Speaking of fat, I also hear the British equivalent of our Surgeon General has issues with Santa’s weighty image. So what! I have bigger issues with Mr. Claus than his waistline or his choice of words. This guy can supposedly see me when I’m sleeping! He knows everything about me. What if he works for Big Brother?

Is there ever a time when you’re watching the news or reading a newspaper or magazine that you just want to shout, “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!”? Yeah, me too. Every day it seems there’s a news story about some retailer shooting itself in the foot, symbolically speaking, by refusing to acknowledge the word “Christmas” in favor of mere “holiday.” Surely there are plenty of other retailers who won’t be offended by our spending our “Christmas” money in their stores. But if they don’t want our business, they have that right. About 80% of Americans at least call themselves Christian; so, if some retailers think they can turn a profit from the other 20% via some generic “holiday” season, let them. They need to be a little more careful though. I heard about a New York grocery store advertising their Chanukah specials, which included smoked hams. I didn’t know they made Kosher hams.

I constantly ask myself, “Who put all these stupid people in charge?!” Do you know who authorized these nuts to tell us how to live and what to believe? I know I didn’t. Did you? I didn’t think so. The constant attacks on our Christian values by academia, big business, the entertainment industry, the news media, unelected judicial boneheads and bureaucrats and especially Balaamite wolves posing as church leaders [a.k.a., Principals of Newspeak] are enough to make me consider filing a counter-lawsuit, one that charges them all with religious persecution.

The 1st Amendment plainly says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or preventing the free exercise thereof…” The first part of this statement prevents Congress and presumably the President, Supreme Court, etc. from establishing the Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Baptist or Humanist church as the Church of the United States. I threw Humanists in there for a good reason; for though the Supreme Court has admitted that Humanism is a religion [1961], elitists have thrown the Judeo-Christian God out of the public arena and established their Humanist god, the one the Bible calls the god of this world. Services for the National Humanist Church are held Monday-Friday in public schools across the country. John Dewey’s “prophets” of his “social religion” brainwash public school kids every day with the fundamental doctrines of Humanism – socialism, Darwinism and moral relativism – and we silently comply. Well, some of us aren’t so silent. But every chance these devils get, they further prevent the free exercise of our religion, even to the point now where what we say inside our churches is called hate speech. Now the rest of the 1st Amendment [i.e., the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances] is also being taken from us via so-called “hate crime” legislation.

Did you notice though how the news media and law enforcement investigators are reluctant to call the recent shootings at a Colorado church and missionary center hate crimes? Would they be so reluctant if it had been a Muslim mosque, Jewish synagogue or even minority church? It reminds me of a similar shooting in a Texas Baptist church several years ago. Even though the shooter plainly said he was going to kill himself “some Baptists,” it wasn’t treated as a hate crime. Don’t you think it’s time we fought back by at least counter-suing these neo-Gnostic Nazis for persecuting us with their endless court actions and left-wing legislation?! We better do something and quickly, or we can expect more of these deadly assaults on Christians and churches.

We could start small. We don’t have to go after all the big fish at once. First, I say we counter their silly PC restrictions on public displays of our religion and what they consider offensive language. They don’t want us to display Nativity scenes in shopping malls or crosses representing our fallen soldiers on the sides of the road. Okay, I don’t want to see their Hedonistic billboards flashing nearly naked bodies or hear anymore profanity on the radio or TV. Hedonism is a religion too. Why should they be allowed to “preach” their lusty sermons in public?

Even though I don’t think of Santa as a Christmas symbol, much less a Christian one, if they’re offended by hearing the words “HO HO HO” or Christ’s name in traditional Christmas hymns, I think we need to censor all secular songs of the holiday season. I refuse to don “gay apparel,” and my heart will never be gay. Why should we let them use a Christian holiday [a.k.a., holy day] to promote sodomy? If stores are going to play these secular songs, make them to mute the word “gay” just as they’re now doing when the Lord’s name is mentioned in traditional Christmas hymns. Oh, and since we rarely get any snow here in the South, I’m also thinking pretty hard about that “White Christmas” ditty. Sounds racist, don’t you think?

Who needs all these secular songs anyway? Most are empty-headed ramblings, like the lyrics to most modern music and all campaign speeches. Anyone can write a secular song for a generic holiday season. To prove it, let me write one for you right off the cuff.

It’s been a roller coaster year, politically and personally. I’m more than a little relieved it’s almost over. The Demwits and the Repugnants both tried to force an immigration “reform” bill on us that would have given legal status to 20 million uninvited “guest workers.” More recently, Teddy Kennedy and his evil allies tried to annul the 1st Amendment with his perverted concept of hate speech. Though we defeated each of these pieces of treasonous legislation, the principal malefactors mentioned above are aggressively reorganizing and preparing their counterattack. On a personal level, despite my lack of computer and internet skills, I managed to start up my own website, www.voicefromthepews.com, and publish my second book, Legally STUPiD: Why Johnny doesn’t have to read. But these minor achievements don’t out-weigh the losses. The number of folks who curse and spit at the mention of my name has increased from a few students, teachers, parents and administrators to thousands of other proles and outer party members who don’t believe someone wants to control knowledge, academic or biblical. I’ve also kept a squad of doctors busy treating me for a variety medical emergencies. With these skirmishes in mind, I submit my own version of a Nat King Cole classic:

Chipmunks roasting on an open fire.
Rottweiler’s ripping at your nose.
Forty fat, jolly fellows line-dancing on a wire.
And folks dressed up like horny toads.
Everybody knows North Carolina BBQ and collard greens
make this country, home-boy’s day.
Though Elvis be dead and Bin Laden be gay,
2007 is over [almost]. Hurray!

Silly song? Of course, it’s silly. But it’s no sillier than making a shopping mall policy against the words of a fictional character who personifies commercialized Christmas or belligerently refusing to say “Merry Christmas” to the customers they’d hope were there to spend Christmas money in their store. I personally don’t believe in Santa’s cause. I think he’s just a distraction for the real joy of Christmas, that God the Father so loved the world He gave us His only begotten Son [not adopted like us or created like the angels] to be conceived of God the Holy Spirit and born of a virgin [not a young woman, per modern bibles] so that in the fullness of time, God the Son would lay down His life as the willing sacrificial lamb and die on that cruel cross, be buried then rise again on the third day just so stupid sinners like you and I could be justified before the Father. That’s the joy that’s supposed to be Christmas – not jingle bells, drunken parties and shopping frenzies.

In the coming days, you’re going to hear other folks than me reminding you to remember what Christmas is all about. Please do. Remember that holy thing. He is not, as some liberal preachers have described him, half God and half man. Jesus is holy God and wholly man. That’s how He was able to suffer the same infirmities we suffer and be tempted as we’re tempted. The peculiar nature of His being is why His blood could atone for our sins and why He is now the only mediator between us and God the Father? This Christmas as you see pictures or statues of that holy thing in the manger, think about the words He spoke to you across the centuries, just before His crucifixion: “….whom say ye that I am?” Mathew 16:15.

About the Author

RC Murray is a disabled veteran and former public school teacher. He left a good job as a technical writer for a satellite manufacturer in order to teach high school English, only to be told he could not expect, much less require his students to read their literature assignments. After four years of fighting The System and having a stroke then a mini-stroke, he decided he was safer in the airborne infantry and returned to being a technical writer for a military contractor. Murray has dedicated the rest of his life to exhorting parents about what’s really going on in their local public school, the one they think is a good school. RC Murray is the author of two books, Golden Knights: History of the U.S. Army Parachute Team and most recently, Legally STUPiD: Why Johnny doesn’t have to read. Website: www.voicefromthepews.com E-Mail: bakea3@aol.com

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