Posted on 12/11/2012 6:45:49 AM PST by Kaslin
Bill O'Reilly asked this question on his Fox News program last week: "Why do I have to be the leader defending Christmas against its attackers?" O'Reilly was criticizing Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee's renaming his state's Christmas tree a "holiday tree."
Good question. It's time for Christians to realize that their religion is under attack, and they had better start fighting to win the war for religious liberty in public opinion, in the courts and in the schools.
The war against Christianity has been waged by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Freedom From Religion Foundation and similar groups. Their tactics use the threat of litigation, with the hope that supremacist judges will accept their reinterpretation of the First Amendment, as Americans have understood it for over two centuries.
The re-election of Barack Obama has made this issue even more pressing. Throughout his first term, he waged a persistent campaign to secularize America, to push all religion behind church doors and to ban all mention of religion from every public place, park, building, military facility, school and speech.
The public schools have become the front line in this battle to banish Christmas from celebrations, songs and events, and anti-Christmas public school rulings have been accelerating. Here are a few examples.
Pennsylvania fourth-graders were prohibited from handing out religious Christmas cards to classmates, Massachusetts ninth-graders were told they could not create Christmas cards that depict a nativity scene, a Georgia school board deleted the word "Christmas" from the school calendar, Minnesota middle school kids were disciplined for wearing red and green scarves in a Christmas skit and for ending the skit with wishing all a Merry Christmas, and dozens of schools banned Christmas carols, in favor of songs such as "Frosty the Snowman" and "Winter Wonderland".
A New Jersey second-grader was prohibited from singing the pop song "Awesome God" at an evening talent show, and a Colorado school counselor changed the words of the Pledge of Allegiance on the public-address system from "one nation under God" to "one nation under your belief system" (that was, fortunately, overturned). A Massachusetts elementary school censored God from Lee Greenwood's famous song, changing the line "God bless the U.S.A." to "We love the U.S.A."
A first-grade girl in North Carolina wrote a poem for her school's Veterans Day assembly honoring her two grandfathers who had served in the Vietnam War that included the sentences, "He prayed to God for peace. He prayed to God for strength." The school censored the word God out of the poem before the kid read it. A Texas high school ordered the football coach not to bow his head or kneel when the team said a prayer before a game.
Cranston High School West in Rhode Island banned a prayer banner that had hung on the auditorium wall for 38 years without complaint. The banner read in part: "Our Heavenly Father, Grant us each day the desire to do our best ... Help us to be good sports and smile when we lose as well as when we win. Teach us the value of true friendship. Help us always to conduct ourselves so as to bring credit to Cranston High West. Amen."
A Plano, Tex. school banned an eight-year-old from handing out candy canes with Jesus' name on them to classmates at a school holiday party, confiscated a girl's pencils because they mentioned "God" and banned an entire classroom from writing "Merry Christmas" on cards to be sent to our troops serving in the Middle East. Litigation followed the action of a Texas high school that tried to forbid cheerleaders from displaying a banner at a football game with the Bible verse: "And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us."
President Obama is a major part of the campaign to secularize America. For the fourth straight year, Obama again deleted God from his Thanksgiving Day address as he personally read it from the teleprompter into a camera.
Of course, there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that requires this anti-Christmas nonsense. The purpose of all these actions is to mandate a religion of secularism, which is completely contrary to American history, heritage and constitutional law.
Christians had better wake up and realize the threat of the secularists to the First Amendment. Our answer to the ACLU and atheist lawyers who are trying to change America should be the favorite words of Scrooge in Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol": "Bah, humbug!"\
Not atheist.
Anti-theist.
And it makes me want to puke. Once again, much of the world flocks to self-idolotry as glory is deflected away from the One who deserves ALL of it.
I love and respect this lady so much.
ALL of us who believe in G-d need to stand and be heard and seen.
Why don’t the Atheists do this in August if they say they are engaged in a war on Christmas?
Last Friday I attended my grandchildren’s Christmas concert. In past years this particular school system’s Christmas programs were called such and the music included classic Christmas pieces with a clear Christian message.
This year my interest was immediately peaked when two local attorneys, recognizable from their tv advertizing, arrived wearing their black power suits. Two men, with no accompanying family, so I doubt they were there for a relative’s performance. In fact they left after the chorus sang “Calypso Lullabye”, a version of “Mary’s Boy Child” with the lyrics completely rewritten with virtually no mention of Christ or Jesus.
Last Friday I attended my grandchildren’s Christmas concert. In past years this particular school system’s Christmas programs were called such and the music included classic Christmas pieces with a clear Christian message.
This year my interest was immediately peaked when two local attorneys, recognizable from their tv advertizing, arrived wearing their black power suits. Two men, with no accompanying family, so I doubt they were there for a relative’s performance. In fact they left after the chorus sang “Calypso Lullabye”, a version of “Mary’s Boy Child” with the lyrics completely rewritten with virtually no mention of Christ or Jesus.
They hate Christianity and Judaism but love a certain middle eastern death cult that preaches the violent overthrow of Western Civilization and that disguises itself cleverly as a religion.
We must point out IMHO that these anti-god groups are nothing more than hate groups and should be treated as such. They will not live and let live until it is completely how they want it to be.
If you dig deep enough into an atheist you will find a person who hates God with every fiber of his being.
The 'Religion' of the liberals is Atheism (secularism). You can't get any more unconstitutional than this. Wake up America.
> Not atheist.
>
> Anti-theist.
To be more precise, Anti-Christ.
They seem to be just fine with the satanic deities of the Mohamedans and pagans.
“ALL of us who believe in G-d need to stand and be heard and seen.”
So why are you hiding God’s name?
Yup, Establishment Clause. The Greeks and Romans had a public religion -- Judaism, too -- and Obama is trying to set the stage for one here as well.
But the atheists are in for a surprise.
More like, anti-Christian, with Barky in charge.
You know what I mean.
Inshallah.
I don’t believe they love it. They’re just cowards at heart and so they feel safe “courageously” attacking those who believe in forgiveness. Let’s see them take on the head-lopping savages. (I won’t hold my breath.)
Did you mean, "piqued"?
O’Reilly is stuck in the pagan past; it is the Christians that are done with the christmas myth. December 25 was the birthdate of Tammuz, Jupiter, Mythra, Osiris, and Constantine.
Yeshua was born in the fall just as all the OT prophecies said.
Was there any "religious content" (in a Christmas pageant? <snort!>) in the rest of the program?
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