Tear it All Down with a Ho Ho Ho!

The secularizers are gearing up for another year of kicking baby Jesus out into the cold, dark streets. Even as I type this, I see a Rambo-like montage playing in my head: of atheists and their fellow travellers donning their Che Guevara sweatshirts, pulling on their Santa suits, gripping their baseball bats tightly, and using photos of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, and other zealots of the "Christian Right" as target practice. Then these thugs and enemies of religious freedom goose-step into the back alleys and steal their way down Main Street, U.S.A., breaking crosses, smashing creches, and wishing everyone "Happy Holidays!" at the tops of their whiny voices. The red Santa coats are fit for the occasion, since the color represents that of their ideological ancestors, those whom they adore. And when they have finished leeching every conceivable drop of joy or relevance from this time of year, they dust off their hands and return to their communes and the rocks from under which they crawled, happy in the knowledge that they've been about the good work of dismantling liberty, never wondering what will rear its head in the New World Order displacing the old.

Just today, I heard a story from Florida, in which a mayor allowed a menorah on public property, while refusing the installation of a nativity scene.

They're just getting warmed up.

I realize some of my godly readers don't celebrate Christmas, and I respect that. I think the Redeemed can have honest, amicable disagreements on this issue. But make no mistake; the war on Christmas simply is one front in a wider conflict: the all-out assault on religious freedom, and Christianity in particular. We should take this seriously; our evil enemy certainly does.

I love the old rabid leftist canard: "We won't allow manger scenes, because we're afraid they might offend someone." Of course, this is patent nonsense, and it doesn't take much candle power to see through the lie. First, no one has a right not to be offended. How would one even begin securing such an intangible? Second--and more importantly--if minimizing offense really was the goal in these situations, these people would behave in a fashion diametrically opposite their current reaction. We live in a country in which 85% of the population is either Christian, or associates itself with Christianity. For any arithmetically-challenged atheists who've accidentally stumbled on this website in abject horror, that's well over three-fourths of Americans. So where does the likelihood of offense lie? In the aforementioned 85%, or in the remaining 15%, which consists all other religions; i.e., Judaism, Killslam, etc. The short of it is that far more people are outraged by this behavior than otherwise would be if a baby Jesus was swaddled on the front lawn of every public building in the nation, 365 days a year.

Though the ultimate end of all this is the eradication of free religious expression, they're zeroing in on Christianity first. The reasoning is simple: they hate American ideals; Christianity is interwoven in this nation's founding and history; therefore, there is a connection between the two in reality and in the minds of the destroyers. Damaging one helps undermine the other. Their sappers are hard at work burrowing under our fortifications.

And Satan himself is their general, watching over the battlefield with a smirk.