Posted on 11/27/2005 7:17:46 PM PST by Coleus
by Rabbi Aryeh Spero
Its December 2030, and Im shopping with my grandson in a mall in Northern Virginia. Weve purchased a gift for a relative.
Gift wrap? inquired the clerk. Yes, thanks. Happy Chanukah, Merry Kwanzaa, or Eid Greetings? My grandson looked up at me and asked, Why is the man whispering, Grandpa? Grandpa, David asked, when did the stores stop offering Christmas paper? But, Grandpa, the President still lights the National Fern! Why not, Grandpa? You mean, people 50 years ago were so scared that theyd allow their country to be taken from them rather than be called a name? I thought sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me! Some of the people who stood up against the ACLU, I continued, were called Conservatives. In those days, you werent welcomed in progressive circles if you were a Conservative. You didnt get those high-paying jobs in the media, Hollywood, or in the University. In fact, if they knew you were Conservative, you could even lose your job -- and, if you wanted to keep your job, you had to undergo diversity training at Sensitivity Sessions and mouth the appropriate platitudes and apologies, even against your own conscience. You see, they insisted that any references to Christmas and Christianity were offensive to some people. Heavens, no, David. But when Christians wanted simply to express themselves as other groups did, they were accused of having a hidden agenda of Christianizing America. Black pride, Jewish pride, Islamic and Hispanic pride were considered social goods and diversity, but Christian expression was considered a symptom of concealed anti-Semitism, racism, Islamophobia, and even American imperialism! I felt fine being on the receiving end of good wishes and that persons desire to include me in his season of joy. Besides, it was the gracious thing to do. Then along came the Left and they politicized every harmless and gentle aspect of everyday life, rendering almost anything any normal person said as somehow insensitive to some person or group. They took regular daily life which had been sweet and turned it into a political brawl. They made fair-minded Americans self-conscious of every word, and relations between people strained and bitter. They busy-bodied into everything private and personal. And out of a desire to be considered inclusive, Christians allowed their Christianity to be rubbed out from the public sphere. Yes, because unbeknownst to our good-willed Christian friends, the ACLU and its fanatical left-wing collaborators were zealously engaged in a deliberate plan to expunge Christianity from America, all the while pretending that their intent was simply to have a more inclusive America and not offend non-Christians. Im afraid so. As we walked around, I noticed how quiet and gloomy the store was, and remembered back to the days when every department, resplendent with colorful decorations and Christmas music, was almost bursting with shoppers. Grandpa, if the ACLU and ADL were against religion, why did they want religious symbols for Moslem-Americans and Jewish-Americans and African-Americans? Isnt that hatred, too? So Grandpa, if you knew what the real goals were of the ACLU and ADL, why didnt you speak up, then? Grandpa, who were the people who made up the ACLU? Who else belonged to the ACLU? Grandpa, we were taught in school that our country was founded on our Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage. And that our Founding Fathers were guided greatly by the principles of the Holy Koran. Grandpa, where is the ACLU located today? You mean that big white-marble building where the Supreme Court used to be? The one with the statues of Mohammed and Ruth Bader Ginsburg? We took our packages and walked out of the store and were guided down the escalator by Spanish and Arabic directions, though, unlike my grandson, I focused on the smaller English subtitles. We drove on Route 50 until we came to Falls Mosque, Virginia. I remembered when the city had been renamed from the original Falls Church when that section of Virginia was granted the right to no longer live by American law but, instead, by its own However, I knew that such a step had been rooted in timidity. We had become fraidy-cats, enfeebled, because 50 years of liberalism had made us no longer believe in ourselves, who we were and what we stood for. That had always been liberalisms goal. Anyway, the rage among liberals had been to change all these historic American names, as was being done by their mentors and idols in Eurabia who guided us as to what was sophisticated. Londonstan, Parisabia, and Berlindad, all were renamed cities in the greater Caliphate living under the Religion of Peace. My grandson interrupted my thoughts: If the ACLU people hated America so, why didnt they just leave? As we got out of our car near home, we spotted a small building with a Cross. It was lit up and the distant sounds of a hymn could be heard in the cold evening air. David, that is a church. A church is a place where Christians gather privately to express their Christianity, now that public expression of Christianity in America is forbidden. Well, Id say about 260 million. Indeed 85% of the country was then Christian. Incredible, right? Of course, half the Jews had no problem with Christmas, and not all atheists were offended by Christmas trees but it turned out that less than 10% of the countrys population was able to control the other 91%. Well, they had been bullied so long, son, they lost their fiber. The others were afraid of a newspaper called The New York Times. And the people themselves decided they had more important things to do than defend their heritage. They had become intimidated by a foolish and destructive wind that ran across the land. It was a suicidal ideology: liberalism. It taught that the greatest virtue was national self-criticism. It resulted in people hating their own great country, America. And thus a handful of well-positioned, manipulative liberal elitists were able to bring down an entire powerful country. I thought back to what distorted times they had been, back in late 2005. While Christians were reviled and seen by liberals as the enemy, jihadist terrorists were understood and their detention raised a cry in their behalf for compassion. Social and political energy was channeled in two directions: overwhelming concern for the highest degree of humane treatment for Islamic terrorists coupled with an all out assault against Christians wanting merely to say Merry Christmas. You know, David, I continued, I remember back when I was growing up in America in the 1950s. The Christians had beautiful Christmas trees covered with glittering lights lining the avenues in the snow, children went from house to house singing Christmas carols, people gave presents to each other wrapped in sparkly wrappings, strangers would extend unexpected kindnesses and generosities to each other, and walking down a street on a wintry night one might even come across a gentle nativity scene that didnt hurt anybody. But that was America then, not now. Words are only good if they lead to action, I thought. Nothing happens unless the people venture boldly into public debates and the streets and face down those who are trying to destroy them and put their heritage and children in harms way. Where had the activists been? We were too fine to get out in the streets, too gentlemanly to call things the way they were, too preoccupied with appearing compassionate to stop the leftists and jihadists. Maybe our good-willed friends simply never realized that some of Americas greatest foes were citizens within our own borders. I put my arm around my young grandson. My America is gone now. How wonderful it was. It was heaven on earth. We could have taken to the streets. We could have stood together and risen up, one citizen at a time, defying every challenge in every forum, and fighting for our freedoms on the front-lines of every village and town.
So what happened, Grandpa? How did we lose America? Ill tell you: our soldiers on the battlefield overseas were brave, but we folks at home had no guts.
Rabbi Spero is a radio talk show host, a pulpit rabbi, and president of Caucus for America. He can be reached at www.caucusforamerica.com.
No wonder Christmas sales are down.
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Happy HanuKwanzaXmas, Brilliant.
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Interesting, but I bet there's a real backlash coming. I refuse to buy any Christmas presents in stores that do not celebrate Christmas, I refuse to buy a "holiday" tree. They want to sell holiday trees, let them sell them on Holiday and see just who buys them.
My sister told me that my neice wanted a gift cert. for Christmas for either Target or a supermarket near her first apartment.
I told my sister I am boycotting Target, so I will go with the supermarket.
My husband and I have purchased so many things from Lowes, but since they renamed Christmas trees to holiday tress, I won't be shopping there until after Christmas, and maybe never.
When I call a big box store and they say: "Happy Holidays," I cheerfully say: "Merry Christmas." I don't blame the workers; they want to keep their jobs.
Just a few examples of what I'm doing.
We should make sure that these people never get into power again.
I believe that every time Ann Coulter is not a "fraidy-cat" in her battle against cultural revisionists many people with room-temperature IQ's label her as "extreme".
Yes, sometimes even here people become "too fine to get out in the streets, too gentlemanly to call things the way they" are.
In keeping with the rules:
What a wonderful article!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Winning Troops
Thanksgiving will be next. Then, Independence Day. Then what? Mother's Day? Father's Day? Of course, Labor Day will remain.
Last year I had a thought about making some of those vehicle magnets (Like the Support Our Troops ribbons) that say Merry Christmas on them. I went into Kmart this weekend and found somebody had already used my idea. I found a nice one with the three wisemen on it that says, "Jesus is the Reason for the Season." I expect I'll encounter a little road rage from the DemocRATS for having it on my car but they will have to deal with it.
And by the way, Merry Christmas to you!
Does anybody here listen to Rabbi Spero's show?
I live in a very rural area. I'm lucky to get G. Gordon, Rush and Sean. The good thing about it is, NO ERR AMERICA with that buck-toothed Franken idiot.
Very good..
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My Jewish brother in law said that his grandfather introduced colored, printed, Christmas wrapping paper into this country in the 1920's. Obviously, the holiday wasn't offensive to him! ;o)
Just a thought....
I too was bothered by the sudden appearance of all the "holiday" hoopla and the disappearance of "Christmas" anything in all the ads on TV. Then it occurred to me how bothered I had been last year, and every Christmas for a lot of years, by the fact that Christmas had all but been taken over by commercialism. In a way I'm relieved by the giving of Christmas back to those of us who choose to celebrate it for what our faith tells us it is, the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
My mom always told me God moves in mysterious ways. Looks like she was right again!
Merry Christmas, fellow Christians! Happy holidays to everyone else!
And good for you, too!
It might also be good to write a letter to the editor to inform elderly folks who might only get their news from the tv, but love to read those letters to the editor.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
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